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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... bout accountings highlight another di‡culty in attempting to recount boxing history. Newspaper and written accounts of bouts are quite often inaccurate. Even discounting the failings of sight, memory, and the inability of non-fight ...
... bout. This is why it is so important that more boxing books provide multiple fight accountings and citations to sources, as this book does. When not utilizing multiple sources, I usually tried to rely on a local source, because most ...
... bouts, one must understand the bareknuckle style and rules from which gloved bouts arose, as well as the early rules of gloved bouts. Many historians and analysts criticize the techniques of early boxers. While some of the criticisms ...
... bout was of little concern, as most fights were of unlimited duration. Sometimes fights lasted many hours. After a boxer was knocked down, he did not have to almost immediately rise or present himself ready to fight as became the case ...
... bout continued immediately after the boxer rose (as opposed to the optional 30- to 38-second recovery period). There was no neutral corner rule, which meant that a fighter could hover near his fallen foe, and as soon as he rose, he ...
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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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