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Posts about professional boxing from 1890 karşı 1930.
Nisan'da 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 dakika. From February 5, 1903, when he beat “Denver” Ed Martin to December 26, 1908, when
On January 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 kariyeri boyunca ödül halka egemen olan. Bir kaydını sahip olan 40 kazanç, Hiçbir kayıp ve iki çeker, “Boston Güçlü Boy” yenilmez kabul edildi. Sullivan dünya şampiyonluğunu kazandı 1882 ve tüm yarışmacılarımız Jake Kilrain ile Ondokuzuncu yüzyılın Fight ile sonuçlanan vazgeçilebilir. Bu destansı bout Kilrain yendikten sonra, John L.
Oliver Leonard Kirk aynı Olimpiyat Oyunlarında iki ayrı ağırlık sınıflarında altın madalya kazanan tek Olimpiyat boksör olma özelliğini taşıyor. Oliver Kirk memleketi Olimpiyatları bu başarıyı 1904. St. Louis döneminde üçüncü Olimpiyatlarına ev sahipliği yaptı 1904 Dünya Fuarı Fuarı. 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. Ancak, 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'ın gösterileri
Aralık 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 ve 126 lira, 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, which is why both promoters
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. Henüz, like many human beings he was a flawed man. He beat his first wife