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Posts about professional boxing from 1890 a 1930.
Em abril de 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
Em janeiro de 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 tinha dominado o anel prêmio durante sua carreira. Possuindo um registro de 40 vitórias, sem perdas e dois empates, “O Boston Strong Boy” foi considerado invencível. Sullivan ganhou o campeonato mundial em 1882 e dispensados todos os adversários que culminou com a luta do século XIX, com Jake Kilrain. After defeating Kilrain in this epic bout, John L.
Oliver Leonard Kirk tem a distinção de ser o único boxeador olímpico a ganhar uma medalha de ouro em duas categorias de peso diferentes nos mesmos Jogos Olímpicos. Oliver Kirk conseguido este feito em sua cidade natal Olimpíadas de 1904. St. Louis sediou a terceira Olimpíada durante o 1904 Exposição Feira Mundial. 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. However, doctors diagnosed pneumonia. McGovern went from walking and talking to unresponsive in just one or two days. McGovern never recovered.
Sam McVey cansado da falta de oportunidade para os lutadores negros nos Estados Unidos durante o início do século XX. McVey decidiu partir para a Europa em 1907, onde ele lutou até 1911. McVey lutou na Austrália por mais três anos, antes de voltar para os Estados Unidos. Este breve filme de destaque da França em 1911 com “Battling” Jim Johnson shows
Em dezembro de 8, 1903, Sam Langford fought the reigning lightweight boxing champion in his hometown of Boston, Massachusetts. Prior to fighting Langford, most boxing experts felt Joe Gans could not be beaten in a legitimate bout. Born in 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 e 126 libras, 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, é por isso que ambos os promotores
Jack Johnson tem sido sempre um assunto difícil para mim. Admiro sua coragem e força para enfrentar o ódio ea intolerância em um momento em que isso coloque sua vida em perigo. Ele se recusou a conformar e aceitar uma posição de inferioridade para os americanos brancos. Ainda, como muitos seres humanos que ele era um homem falho. He beat his first wife