Harcsporttörténész és harcművész
Posts about 19th and early 20th Century boxing.
Jake Kilrain is best known as the last and toughest challenger to John L. Sullivan in the last bare knuckle world championship fight. Despite Kilrain’s inability to beat John L. Sullivan, he had a successful career both before and after the bout with the mighty Sullivan. Fighting for 10 more years in gloved bouts, Kilrain was mostly successful but on
Július 2, 1921 in Jersey City, New Jersey, reigning World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Jack Dempsey met light heavyweight boxing king Georges Carpentier. Boxing fans flocked to event resulting in the first million dollar gate in boxing history. The match would prove the old boxing adage, “A good big man always beats a good little man.” Even though Georges Carpentier
Május 11, 1900, World Heavyweight Boxing Champion James J. Jeffries fought his former employer James J. Corbett. Corbett held the World Heavyweight Boxing Championship in the early 1890s. Corbett hired the powerfully built Jeffires to help him prepare for his title challengers. Jeffries went on to win the world title from the man, who beat Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons. Corbett
Pénteken, Június 10, 1910, World Middleweight Boxing Champion Stanley Ketchel fought his last fight against unheralded Jim Smith. Ketchel has cleared out the middleweight division, so boxing promoters struggled to find suitable competition for Ketchel. At only 24 éves, Ketchel lived hard and fought constantly causing an early breakdown of his body. After fighting Smith, Ketchel intended to
Március 17, 1897, current World Heavyweight Boxing Champion James J. Corbett entered the boxing ring at Carson City, Nevada. Corbett faced the challenge of former middleweight boxing champion Bob Fitzsimmons. Corbett entered as the favorite enjoying both an almost twenty pound weight advantage and slick boxing skills. “Ruddy Robert” as Fitzsimmons was sometimes known won the World Middleweight Boxing Championship in
1909 látta, hogy Stanley Ketchel folytatta döcögős tempóját a középsúlyhatár körüli legjobb harcosok között. In March 1909, Ketchelnek ritka kihívással kellett szembenéznie, amikor a félnehézsúly uralkodó világbajnoka, Philadelphia Jack O’Brien ellen küzdött. O’Brien sima bokszoló volt, aki gyorsaságát és megfoghatatlanságát használta fel Ketchel zúzására a korai fordulókban. O’Brien méretelőnye ellenére, Vízforraló valamit
Bob “Rudy Robert” Fitzsimmons was an English boxer, who won the undisputed middleweight, heavyweight and light heavyweight world championships, at the turn of the 20th Century. Often mistaken for an Australian because he started his boxing career there, Fitzsimmons traveled to the United States in 1890 to campaign for the middleweight championship. Fitzsimmons stood just under 6 feet tall but
James J. Jeffries uralta az amerikai nehézsúlyú bokszot 1899 a 1904. Miután megnyerte a nehézsúlyú ökölvívó világbajnokságot Bob Fitzsimmonstól 1899, Jeffries készítette 9 sikeres címvédést a következő öt évben. Veretlenül vonult vissza 1905 mielőtt visszacsábítják egy balszerencsés visszatérésre a nagyszerű Jack Johnson ellen. Jeffries nem győzte felülmúlhatatlan bokszolással a csatáit
Kedden, Február 22, 1910, Ad Wolgast kihívta a könnyűsúlyú ökölvívó világbajnokot, aki Nelsonnal küzd Nelson címéért a Point Richmond-i Richmond Arénában, Kalifornia. A 28 éves Nelson a nagyszerű Joe Gans kiütésével nyerte meg a címet 1908. A bokszszakértők nem számítottak arra, hogy Wolgast legyőzi Nelsont, noha Wolgast az újságban döntött Nelsonról 1909. Szakértők
Hétfőn, Május 30, 1892, the great Peter Jackson boxed a gloved bout with former protégé Frank Slavin. Both men lived and fought in Australia, although fan interest led Jackson to tour the world to take advantage of the financial opportunities in the United States and England. As in Australia, Jackson often found white boxers unwilling to fight him. Few