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Posts about professional boxing from 1890 да се 1930.
На април 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 минути. From February 5, 1903, when he beat “Denver” Ed Martin to December 26, 1908, when
Од јануари 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
Џон Л. Саливан доминираше наградата прстен за време на неговата кариера. Поседување на евиденција на 40 победи, без загуби и две равенства, “Бостон Силен момче” се сметаше непобедлива. Саливан освои светскиот шампионат во 1882 and dispensed all challengers culminating with the Fight of the Nineteenth Century with Jake Kilrain. По победата над Kilrain во овој еп рунда, Џон Л.
Оливер Леонард Кирк има разлика да биде единствената олимписки боксер да освои златен медал во две одделни тежина настава во иста Олимписките игри. Оливер Кирк оствари овој подвиг во неговиот роден град Олимписките игри во 1904. St. Луис беше домаќин на третиот олимпијада за време на 1904 Светот саем шоу. 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. Сепак, 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
На декември 8, 1903, Сем Langford бореше владеел лесни боксерски шампион во неговиот роден град Бостон, Масачусетс. Пред да се борат Langford, повеќето експерти се чувствува бокс Џо Gans не може да биде тепан во легитимен напад. Роден е во Балтимор, Мериленд, Gans беше во можност да се пробие на боја бариера со триумф и на Светскиот шампионат во бокс Лесен. 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 и 126 фунти, possessed tremendous knockout power. “Terrible” Terry often finished his opponents in the first four rounds. On July 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, поради што и двајцата промотори
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. Сепак,, like many human beings he was a flawed man. He beat his first wife