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Posts about 19th and early 20th Century boxing.
St. Louis, på begynnelsen av det 20. århundre, hadde en fremtredende profesjonell boksing scene. Abe Attell, selv født i San Francisco, var basert på St. Louis. On February 1, 1904, Attell forsvarte sin verdensFjær Boxing Championship mot hyppig rival Harry Forbes. Forbes var også en vanlig på St. Louis boksing scene. Forbes beseiret Danny Dougherty for
Sam Langford regnes som en av de største pound for pound jagerfly av all tid. Født på Mars 4, 1883 i Weymouth Falls, Nova Scotia, Han regnes som den største kanadiske bokseren gjennom tidene. Hans kamp karriere strakte seg fra 1900 til 1926. Langford only stood 5 feet six and half inches tall and weighed 185 pounds at his heaviest. He
Monte Attell var den yngre broren til verdensmester i fjærvektboksing Abe Attell. Monte ville alltid sitte fast i skyggen av sin eldre bror, men var en talentfull fighter i seg selv. Monte ville vinne verdensmesterskapet i bantamvektboksing i løpet av karrieren og etablere seg som en fighter i verdensklasse. I 1904, han var en 19-åring på vei
Under hans første løp som verdensmester i fjærvektboksing, Abe Attell var basert fra St. Louis, Missouri. Foruten å ha leiren sin i St. Louis, Attell forsvarte tittelen sin flere ganger på St. Louis’ West End Athletic Club. På tidspunktet, St. Louis var den største byen vest for Mississippi-elven i USA. Født Abraham Washington Attell
Johnny Reagan was an important fighter in the St. Louis boxing scene during the first decade of the 20th Century. Originally from Brooklyn, Reagan moved to St. Louis to train under Jack McKenna. McKenna based his operation out of St. Louis, where his fighter primarily fought at St. Louis’ West End Club. Reagan was a rising bantamweight at the time
Mike “Twin” Sullivan claimed the Welterweight World Boxing Championship, when he decisioned Honey Mellody in April 1907. Possessing both heavy hands and better than normal boxing skills, Sullivan claimed victories over the great Joe Gans and future Welterweight World Boxing Champion Harry Lewis during his career. Lewis won the welterweight title, when Sullivan could no longer make the 147 pound
Oliver Leonard Kirk har æren av å være den eneste OL-bokseren til å vinne en gullmedalje i to separate vektklasser i samme OL. Oliver Kirk oppnådd denne bragden på hans hjemby OL i 1904. St. Louis vert den tredje Olympiad under 1904 Verdensutstillingen Exposition. Like the Paris Games four years before, St. Louis gave
I desember 1920, robbers killed Patrolman Charles Daly at the entrance to his home in the 4000 block of Forest Park Boulevard. St. Louis Police aggressively investigated the murder but it was never solved. Prior to his death, the Daly name was already well-known in St. Louis. Charles Daly was the son of professional prizefighter Dan Daly, who fought in
While famous for fighting John L. Sullivan in the last world championship prizefight contested under bare knuckle rules, Jake Kilrain also took part in many gloved bouts. Prizefighting was transitioning from bare knuckle rules to gloved bouts under the Marquess of Queensberry Rules (early amateur and professional boxing) in the late 19th Century. Like Sullivan, Kilrain would fight in major
As I have written in several posts, the best heavyweight boxers between 1900 and 1919 were the African-American boxers forced to fight each other for the “Colored Championship”. Even after the great Jack Johnson finally broke the color line and won the World Heavyweight Championship, he would only defend the title against white contenders. As a result, the toughest challengers