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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... punching. Under Broughton's rules, wrestling above the waist, holding and hitting, head butting, hair and ear pulling, and hurling an opponent to the ground (and often falling on him) were accepted, commonly used tactics. Combatants ...
... punches (hitting behind the head), kidney punches (to the back), and falling on an opponent all fouls. Things like low blows, eye gouging, kicking, tearing at the flesh with the fingers and biting remained fouls. Violation of these ...
... punches to be extremely powerful. Given the power that the small gloves yielded, fighters would often attempt to ... punch even harder due to the protection of the hands, and because the rests after knockdowns were shorter, forcing ...
... punches designed to injure and no longer giving a mere exhibition of skill. Often, the police would not consider the boxers to be slugging until one was on the verge of being knocked out. They would usually stop fights when one boxer ...
... punching style and lengthy reign through the ¡880s made him the first American sports hero. Although Sullivan's vicious slugging was the most illegal style, it made him the world's most popular and financially successful sports figure ...
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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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