مورخ ورزش های رزمی و رزمی کار
Posts about professional boxing from 1890 به 1930.
در روز پنج شنبه, فوریه 26, 1903, Jack Johnson defended his World Colored Heavyweight Boxing Championship against the undefeated Sam McVey. McVey brought a 6-0 record with six knockouts into the championship match. Since boxing promoters refused to let Black fighters compete for the World Heavyweight Boxing Championship, the best boxers around the turn of the Century fought for the World Colored
After averaging 9 fights a year over the past 7 سال, World Middleweight Boxing Champion Stanley “The Michigan Assassin” Ketchel was exhausted. Ketchel took a vacation on the Missouri ranch of his friend Colonel R. P. Dickerson in an attempt to regain his strength and enthusiasm for fighting. Ketchel never returned from vacation as he was shot and killed at
“Terrible” Terry McGovern earned a reputation as one of the most powerful punchers in the history of the lighter divisions of professional boxing. McGovern weighed between 112 و 126 پوند. Unlike his fellow smaller fighters, who overwhelmed their opponents with punching volume, McGovern possessed exceptional knockout power. McGovern proved his power on Tuesday, سپتامبر 12, 1899, when he fought British
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, به همین دلیل است که هر دو مروج
After Jack Johnson became champion, a lack of strong contenders caused public pressure to mount on James J. Jeffires, قهرمان سنگین وزن سابق بازنشسته, to end his retirement and fight Johnson. Jeffries was considered the first and most credible of the “سفید امید” مدعی. در نخست خود را, Jeffries probably couldn’t beat Johnson. در 35 years of age and nearly 300
آوریل 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 <طول bbox_x = "405" bbox_y = "1557" bbox_w = "50" bbox_h = "20" fsize = "14" fweight = "3" قرمز = "255" سبز = "255" آبی = "255" آلفا = ". From February 5, 1903, when he beat “دنور” Ed Martin to December 26, 1908, when
جان L. Sullivan had dominated the prize ring during his career. Possessing a record of 40 wins, no losses and two draws, “پسر قوی بوستون” 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, جان L.
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
در تاریخ دسامبر 8, 1903, سام لانگفورد حاکم قهرمان بوکس سبک وزن را در شهر خود بوستون مبارزه, ماساچوست. قبل از مبارزه لانگفورد, اکثر کارشناسان بوکس احساس جو گانز می تواند در یک جلسه مشروع نمی شود مورد ضرب و شتم. در بالتیمور متولد, مریلند, گانز قادر به شکستن سد رنگ های برنده شدن در سبک مسابقات قهرمانی بوکس جهان بود. Sam Langford is often considered
Jack Johnson has always been a tough subject for me. I admire his courage and strength in confronting hatred and bigotry in a time when doing so put his life in danger. He refused to conform and accept a position of inferiority to white Americans. هنوز, like many human beings he was a flawed man. He beat his first wife