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Posts about professional boxing from 1890 to 1930.
Ar Aibreán 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 minutes. From February 5, 1903, when he beat “Denver” Ed Martin to December 26, 1908, when
Ar Eanáir 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, “The Boston Strong Boy” 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 Tá an t-idirdhealú a bheith ar an dornálaí Oilimpeacha ach a bhuachan bonn óir i dhá rang meáchan ar leithligh sna Cluichí Oilimpeacha céanna. Oliver Kirk i gcrích an éacht seo ag a bhaile dúchais Cluichí Oilimpeacha i 1904. St. D'óstáil Louis tríú Oilimpiad i rith na 1904 Domhain Aonach Exposition. Like the Paris Games four years before, 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. Mar sin féin, 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 Nollaig 8, 1903, Sam Langford throid an banríonacha curadh dornálaíochta lightweight ina bhaile dúchais Boston, Massachusetts. Roimh troid Langford, Bhraith formhór saineolaithe dornálaíochta nach bhféadfaí Joe Gans bheith ann fosta i bout dlisteanach. Rugadh i Baltimore, Maryland, Gans was able to break the color barrier by winning the World Lightweight Boxing Championship. 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 agus 126 punt, possessed tremendous knockout power. “Terrible” Terry often finished his opponents in the first four rounds. Ar Iúil 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, agus sin an fáth an dá tionscnóirí
Jack Johnson curtha i gcónaí ina ábhar diana dom. I admire a misneach agus neart i tabhairt aghaidh ar thubaistí fuath agus bigotry in am nuair a dhéanamh amhlaidh a chur ar a shaol i mbaol. Dhiúltaigh sé chun seasamh inferiority i gcomhréir agus glacadh le Meiriceánaigh bán. Ach, like many human beings he was a flawed man. He beat his first wife