John L. Sullivan: The Career of the First Gloved Heavyweight ChampionMcFarland, 28 февр. 2015 г. - Всего страниц: 254 Essentially the last of the bare-knuckle heavyweight champions, John L. Sullivan was instrumental in the acceptance of gloved fighting. His charisma and popular appeal during this transitional period contributed greatly to making boxing a nationally popular, "legitimate" sport. Sullivan became boxing's first superstar and arguably the first of any sport. From his first match in the late 1870s through his final championship fight in 1892, this biography contains a thoroughly researched, detailed accounting of John L. Sullivan's boxing career. With special attention to the 1880s, the decade during which Sullivan came to prominence, it follows Sullivan's skill development and discusses his opponents and fights in detail, providing various viewpoints of a single event. Beginning with a discussion of early boxing practices, the sport itself is placed within sociological, legal and historical contexts including anti-prize fighting laws and the so-called "color line." A complete record of Sullivan's career is also included. |
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... John Sholto Douglas, then the Marquis of Queensberry, helped publish a set of boxing rules (written by John Graham Chambers) which are the foundation of today's rules. However, the Queensberry rules only gradually gained notoriety and ...
... John L. Sullivan represents the transition from bareknuckle era fights under the Lon- don Prize Ring Rules to the gloved era bouts of the Marquis of Queensberry rules with which today's boxing fans are familiar. Some of John L ...
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... John L. Sullivan was an Irish-American born on October ¡5, ¡858, in the Boston, Massachusetts, area.1 He began his fighting career somewhere around ¡877 or ¡878, when he was about ¡9 years old, although there are some indications that ...
... John L. Sullivan was not generally considered a scientific boxer (at least initially), but a vicious slugger with huge power and very good speed. That said, there is a little appreciated science to hitting and knocking out one's ...
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5 A Real Fight | 34 |
6 Now Theyll Have to Do It My Fashion | 43 |
7 The Game Little Englishman and the Maori | 59 |
13 The Plateau and the Break | 129 |
14 The European Tour | 146 |
15 The Color Line | 157 |
16 End of an Era | 170 |
17 Retired? | 199 |
18 Changing His Tune | 209 |
19 The Legacy | 215 |
John L Sullivans Record | 221 |
1883 | 70 |
1884 | 82 |
10 Unfinished Business and Prelude to a Grudge Match | 99 |
11 Accepted but Not Quite | 103 |
12 Mystery of the SevenRound Decision | 115 |
Notes | 231 |
Bibliography | 241 |
Index | 243 |
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