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Posts about professional boxing from 1890 mus 1930.
Nyob rau hnub tim 17, 1909, African-American heavyweight boxer Joe Jeanette ntsib ntiaj teb dawb lias Heavyweight Boxing tau zus ib Sam McVey rau lub npe nyob rau hauv kev sib ntaus ntawm tas. Ua ntej lub classic bout yog tag, cov txiv neej yuav box rau 49 muab suav dua 3 teev thiab 30 feeb. Ntawm lub ob hlis ntuj 5, 1903, Thaum twg nws yeej “Denver” Ed Martin rau hlis ntuj nqeg 26, 1908, Thauj tw
Nyob rau lub ib hlis ntuj 5, 1900, 4 hnub ua ntej ib showdown nrog Bantamweight Boxing tau zus ib Terry McGovern, Featherweight ntiaj teb Boxing tau zus ib George Dixon tsim ib tug ntawv tshaj tawm rau ntsawj txias heev ntawm tag nrho nws los ntawm UFW nqaj qaum. Dixon tshaj tawm uas yeej los yog raug txiav ceg, nws yuav tsum retiring los ntawm lub nplhaib tom qab lub bout nrog McGovern. Qhov kawg tshaj ib tug neeg saib xyuas xav mloog ua ntej ib
John L. Sullivan muaj dominated ntiv nplhaib nqi zog thaum nws cov hauj lwm. Possessing ntaubntawv uas 40 yeej xwb, tsis muaj losses thiab ob draws, “Tus Boston muaj zog tub” txawm yog invincible. Sullivan yeej lub ntiaj teb championship rau 1882 thiab dispensed tag nrho challengers culminating nrog rau kev sib ntaus ntawm lub xyoo pua Nineteenth nrog Jake Kilrain. Tom qab defeating Kilrain nyob rau hauv qhov kev bout epic, John L.
Oliver Leonard Kirk muaj lub txim hluav taws xob los yog cov boxer Olympic xwb los yeej muaj puav pheej nyob hauv ob hoob yuag cais hauv kev ua si zoo tib yam Olympic kub. Oliver Kirk accomplished no feat ntawm nws hometown Olympics nyob rau 1904. St. Louis hosted lub Olympiad thib peb hauv lub 1904 World's Fair Exposition. Zoo li tus ua si Paris plaub xyoos ua ntej, St. Louis gave
Nyob rau lub ob hlis ntuj 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. Txawm li cas los, doctors diagnosed pneumonia. McGovern went from walking and talking to unresponsive in just one or two days. McGovern never recovered.
Sam McVey laj laj tus tsis muaj sij hawm rau dub fighters hauv lub teb chaws As Mes Lis Kas thaum lub xyoo pua Twentieth thaum ntxov. Txiav txim tawm mus rau cov teb chaws Europe hauv McVey 1907, qhov uas nws fought mus txog 1911. McVey fought hauv Australia peb ntau xyoo ua ntej rov mus rau teb chaws As Mes Lis Kas. Qhov highlight hais zaj duab xis ntawm Fabkis nyob 1911 nrog “Battling” Jim Johnson shows
Nyob rau lub hlis ntuj nqeg 8, 1903, Sam Langford fought lub lub tau zus ib boxing hnav reigning hauv nws hometown ntawm Boston, Massachusetts. Ua ntej koj sib ntaus Langford, ntawm cov kws txawj feem ntau boxing muaj Joe Gans kuj tsis tau raug ntaus hauv lub bout tseeb. Yug hauv Baltimore, Maryland, Yog tau zom cov xim barrier ntawm winning lub ntiaj teb khaub-ncaws nyias Boxing Championship Gans. Sam Langford feem ntau yog
“Phem heev” Terry McGovern proved lawv yuav muaj tsawg fighter tig rau ntawm lub xyoo pua Twentieth. Thaum me boxers packed tsis muaj hwj huam nyob hauv lawv cov punches, McGovern, neeg sib scaled 110 thiab 126 phaus, hwj huam dab knockout zoo kawg li. “Phem heev” Terry ntau tas nws tw nyob rau hauv cov plaub thawj rounds. Nyob rau lub Xya hli ntuj 1, 1899, Brooklyn McGovern raws li yus lub Chicago Johnny Richie rau
Ib cov lus nug muaj hnub nyoog laus nyob hauv txhua qhov kev ua si puas yog “Leej twg yuav yeej ib boxer thiab ib wrestler?” Lub speculation nyob ib ncig ntawm qhov lo lus nug mus rau ob peb boxer ntev wrestler qhov yuam kev ntawm paub keeb kwm, tus phem tshaj notably Muhammad Ali thiab Antonio Inoki hauv 1976. Qhov yuam kev ntawm cov saibxyuas no-win affairs tsuas yog nyob rau qhov chaw ua hauj lwm, which is why both promoters
Jack Johnson ib txwm tau hais tawv rau kuv. Kuv qhuas nws lub siab tawv thiab lub zog nyob hauv confronting hatred thiab bigotry nyob hauv ib lub sij hawm thaum kom muab nws lub neej nyob nyab xeeb. Nws tsis kam mus yoog thiab txais ib txoj hauj lwm ntawm inferiority rau cov neeg Asmeskas dawb. Tsis tau, zoo li ntau human beings nws yog ib tug txiv neej flawed. He beat his first wife