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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... fight, leading to questions about their accuracy and completeness. Even today, one fight can often have multiple perspectives and analysis. Therefore, it is important to review historic bouts through more than one viewpoint. The sport's ...
... fight reports were based on one or more telegraphs, and could be an amalgamation of multiple accounts by a writer who may or may not have wit- nessed the bout. This is why it is so important that more boxing books provide multiple fight ...
... fighting style and techniques of early gloved bouts, one must understand the bareknuckle style and rules from which gloved ... fight on the ground). The fights were often essentially brutal street brawls with only a modicum of civility ...
... 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 in the gloved era. The ¡0-count did ...
... fight hard and be less willing to quit. However, ironically, this also made many bouts dull, because some fighters became risk averse, employing tactics designed for lengthy, slow paced fights that were snoozers, but winning e›orts (or ...
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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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