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Posts about professional boxing from 1890 i 1930.
Ar Ebrill 17, 1909, African-American heavyweight boxer Joe Jeanette met World Colored Heavyweight Boxing Champion Sam McVey for the title in a fight to the finish. Before the classic bout was complete, the men would box for 49 rounds over 3 hours and 30 cofnodion. From February 5, 1903, when he beat “Denver” Ed Martin to December 26, 1908, when
Ar Ionawr 5, 1900, four days before a showdown with Bantamweight Boxing Champion Terry McGovern, Featherweight World Boxing Champion George Dixon made an announcement to chill the spine of all his supporters. Dixon announced that win or lose, he would be retiring from the ring after the bout with McGovern. The last thing a manager wants to hear before a
John L. Sullivan had dominated the prize ring during his career. Possessing a record of 40 wins, no losses and two draws, “Mae'r Boston Boy cryf” was considered invincible. Sullivan won the world championship in 1882 and dispensed all challengers culminating with the Fight of the Nineteenth Century with Jake Kilrain. After defeating Kilrain in this epic bout, John L.
Oliver Leonard Kirk sydd â'r fraint o fod yr unig bocsiwr Olympaidd i ennill medal aur mewn dau ddosbarth pwysau ar wahân yn yr un Gemau Olympaidd. Gyflawni Oliver Kirk camp hwn yn ei dref enedigol Gemau Olympaidd yn 1904. St. Cynnal Louis y trydydd Olympiad yn ystod y 1904 Dangosiad Ffair y Byd yn. Fel y Gemau Paris bedair blynedd cyn, St. Louis gave
On February 22, 1918, former World Bantamweight and Featherweight Boxing Champion “Terrible” Terry McGovern died in New York City’s Kings County Hospital. McGovern checked in a few days earlier with what McGovern thought was a severe upper respiratory infection. Fodd bynnag,, doctors diagnosed pneumonia. McGovern went from walking and talking to unresponsive in just one or two days. McGovern never recovered.
Sam McVey tired of the lack of opportunity for black fighters in the United States during the early Twentieth Century. McVey decided to leave for Europe in 1907, where he fought until 1911. McVey fought in Australia for three more years before returning to the United States. This brief highlight film from France in 1911 with “Battling” Jim Johnson shows
Ar Ragfyr 8, 1903, Ymladdodd Sam Langford y pencampwr bocsio pwysau ysgafn teyrnasu yn ei dref enedigol o Boston, Massachusetts. Cyn ymladd Langford, Teimlai'r rhan fwyaf o arbenigwyr bocsio na allai Joe Gans yn cael ei guro mewn pwl dilys. Fe'i ganed yn Baltimore, Maryland, Gans yn gallu torri'r rhwystr lliw drwy ennill Pencampwriaeth Bocsio Pwysau Ysgafn y Byd. Sam Langford is often considered
“Terrible” Terry McGovern proved to be a rare fighter at the turn of the Twentieth Century. While smaller boxers packed no power in their punches, McGovern, who scaled between 110 a 126 bunnoedd, possessed tremendous knockout power. “Terrible” Terry often finished his opponents in the first four rounds. Ar Orffennaf 1, 1899, Brooklyn based McGovern met Chicago’s Johnny Richie at
An age old question in combat sports is “Who will win between a boxer and a wrestler?” The speculation around this question led to several boxer versus wrestler matches through out history, most notably the disaster between Muhammad Ali and Antonio Inoki in 1976. The matches are mostly no-win affairs except at the box office, a dyna pam y ddau hyrwyddwr
Jack Johnson wastad wedi bod yn bwnc anodd i mi. Yr wyf yn edmygu ei ddewrder a'i gryfder yn wynebu casineb a rhagfarn mewn amser wrth wneud hynny yn rhoi ei fywyd mewn perygl. Gwrthododd i gydymffurfio a derbyn sefyllfa o israddoldeb i Americanwyr gwyn. Yet, fel llawer o fodau dynol ei fod yn ddyn ddiffygiol. He beat his first wife