Bardagaíþróttasagnfræðingur og bardagalistamaður
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
Júlí 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
Á maí 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
Á föstudaginn, Júní 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 ára, Ketchel lived hard and fought constantly causing an early breakdown of his body. After fighting Smith, Ketchel intended to
Mars 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 sá Stanley Ketchel halda áfram hröðum hraða sínum í gegnum alla efstu bardagamennina í kringum millivigtarmörkin. Í mars 1909, Ketchel stóð frammi fyrir sjaldgæfa áskorun, þegar hann barðist við ríkjandi heimsmeistara í léttþungavigt Philadelphia Jack O'Brien. O'Brien var klókur boxari, sem notaði hraða sinn og fáránleika til að kýla Ketchel í fyrstu lotunum. Þrátt fyrir stærðarforskot O'Brien, Ketchel hvað
Bob “Rudy Robert” Fitzsimmons var enskur hnefaleikamaður, sem vann óumdeildan millivigt, heimsmeistaramót í þungavigt og léttþungavigt, um aldamótin 20. Oft er rangt fyrir ástralska því hann hóf hnefaleikaferil sinn þar, Fitzsimmons ferðaðist til Bandaríkjanna í 1890 að berjast fyrir millivigtarmeistaratitlinum. Fitzsimmons stóð rétt undir 6 fet á hæð en
James J. Jeffries drottnaði yfir bandarískum þungavigtarhnefaleikum frá 1899 til 1904. Eftir að hafa unnið heimsmeistaramótið í þungavigt í hnefaleikum frá Bob Fitzsimmons í 1899, Jeffries gerði 9 árangursríkar titilvarnir á næstu fimm árum. Hann lét af störfum ósigraður í 1905 áður en hann verður lokkaður til baka fyrir illa farna endurkomu gegn hinum frábæra Jack Johnson. Jeffries vann ekki bardaga sína með frábærum hnefaleikum
Á þriðjudag, Febrúar 22, 1910, Ad Wolgast challenged World Lightweight Boxing Champion Battling Nelson for Nelson’s title at Richmond Arena in Point Richmond, California. The 28-year-old Nelson won the title by knocking out the great Joe Gans in 1908. Boxing experts did not expect Wolgast to defeat Nelson even though Wolgast held a newspaper decision over Nelson in 1909. Pundits
Á mánudaginn, Maí 30, 1892, hinn frábæri Peter Jackson fór í hanskabardaga við fyrrverandi skjólstæðinginn Frank Slavin. Báðir mennirnir bjuggu og börðust í Ástralíu, þó áhugi aðdáenda hafi leitt Jackson til að ferðast um heiminn til að nýta sér fjárhagsleg tækifæri í Bandaríkjunum og Englandi. Eins og í Ástralíu, Jackson fannst oft hvítir hnefaleikamenn vilja ekki berjast við hann. Fáir