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Thomas Owen (boxer)
Thomas Owen (21 December 1768 – 13 December 1843) was an English bare-knuckle boxer who took the heavyweight championship of England in 1796 against William Hooper in Harrow, England. Early life Owen was born on 21 December 1768 in Portsea, Portsmouth, England. He worked as an inn keeper in Hampshire near Portsmouth during his years as a professional boxer. Innkeeping was a common profession for boxers of the era, perhaps because their notoriety drew more tenants, or because boxers had a better chance of maintaining order and collecting fares from unruly travelers. Background to English boxing in 1796 Owen fought under English Broughton rules. Under Broughton, if a man went down and could not continue after 30 seconds, the fight ended. Hitting a downed fighter and grasping or hitting below the waist were prohibited. Broughton invented and encouraged the use of "mufflers", a form of padded gloves, which were used in training and exhibitions. The advent of the Broughton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Middleweight
Middleweight is a weight class in combat sports. Boxing Professional In professional boxing, the middleweight division is contested above and up to . Early boxing history is less than exact, but the middleweight designation seems to have begun in the 1840s. In the bare-knuckle era, the first middleweight championship fight was between Tom Chandler and Dooney Harris in 1867. Chandler won, becoming known as the American middleweight champion. The first middleweight fight with gloves ''may'' have been between George Fulljames and Jack (Nonpareil) Dempsey (no relation to the more famous heavyweight Jack Dempsey). Current world champions Current world rankings =''The Ring''= As of , . Keys: : Current '' The Ring'' world champion =BoxRec= As of , . Longest reigning world middleweight champions Below is a list of longest reigning middleweight champions in boxing measured by the individual's longest reign. Career total time as champion (for multiple time champions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Bartholomew (boxer)
Jack "Barty" Bartholomew, (1763–1803Some sources report 1760) was a bare-knuckle boxer born in Brentford, Middlesex, England. Personal life Little is known about Bartholomew's life except that he was a market gardener. The primary sources for Bartholomew are Pierce Egan's 'Boxiana' and Henry Downes Miles 'Pugilistica'. Relevant fights Bartholomew defeated Tom Owen on 22 August 1797. The bout lasted thirty minutes and took place at Moulsey Hurst, England. Bartholomew drew his first fight with Jem Belcher in 40 minutes, but lost the second on 15 May 1800 at Finchley Common. The fight lasted twenty minutes. Belcher was later recognised as English Prizefighting Champion from 1800-1805. Boxing specifications and style Bartholomew stood at 5'9.5" and weighed 13.5 stone. He was backed by Lord Camelford, captain of the Royal Navy. Bartholomew was described in Boxiana as 'a very hard hitter; extremely active and formidable in all his battles, and perfectly entitled to the a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Heavyweight Boxing Champions
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English Male Boxers
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Bare-knuckle Boxers
Bare-knuckle means without gloves, bandages or any other protection for and/or dangerous 'arming' (such as a knuckle-duster) of the knuckles, a larger part or even the whole hand. It refers specifically to: * Bare-knuckle boxing, boxing without boxing gloves * '' Bare Knuckles'', a 1977 American blaxploitation film directed by Don Edmonds * ''Bare Knuckles'' (1921 film), a 1921 American drama film directed by James P. Hogan * ''Bare Knuckle'', the original Japanese name for the ''Streets of Rage'' series of video games * Fighting in ice hockey, in ice hockey rule books, fighting is referred to as "fisticuffs" as they fight without gloves, and is therefore "bare-knuckle" * Vale tudo Vale Tudo (; en, Everything Goes/Everything Allowed), also known No Holds Barred (NHB) in the United States, is an unarmed, full-contact combat sport with relatively few rules. It became popular in Brazil during the 20th century and would even ..., a name for a form of no rules fighting from Braz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1843 Deaths
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1768 Births
Events January–March * January 9 – Philip Astley stages the first modern circus, with acrobats on galloping horses, in London. * February 11 – Samuel Adams's circular letter is issued by the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and sent to the other Thirteen Colonies. Refusal to revoke the letter will result in dissolution of the Massachusetts Assembly, and (from October) incur the institution of martial law to prevent civil unrest. * February 24 – With Russian troops occupying the nation, opposition legislators of the national legislature having been deported, the government of Poland signs a treaty virtually turning the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth into a protectorate of the Russian Empire. * February 27 – The first Secretary of State for the Colonies is appointed in Britain, the Earl of Hillsborough. * February 29 – Five days after the signing of the treaty, a group of the szlachta, Polish nobles, establishes the Bar Con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Mendoza
Daniel Mendoza (5 July 1764 – 3 September 1836) (often known as Dan Mendoza) was an English prizefighter, who became the 18th boxing champion of England from 1792–1795. He was of Sephardic or Portuguese Jewish descent.''The Jewish Boxer's Hall of Fame'', Blady, Ken, (1988) Shapolsky Publishers, Inc., New York, NY, pp. 6–15 Mendoza was the most accomplished and scientific fighter of his time; he was intelligent, communicative, a master of ring strategy and defense, and several rungs above his contemporaries. His life was a study in contrasts, however. He could be brave, kind and charismatic, or dangerously violent, and was found guilty of crimes of fraud and assault in 1793 and 1795. His poor money management skills and lack of business acumen landed him in debtors' prison on several occasions. Regardless of his shortcomings, he revolutionised self-defense with his book ''The Art of Boxing'', became an heroic and admired figure, and elevated the status of Jews in London ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Jackson (English Boxer)
John Jackson (28 September 1769 – 7 October 1845) was a celebrated English pugilist of the late 18th century. He became the 17th bare-knuckle boxing champion of all England on 15 April 1795, when he defeated Daniel Mendoza. Early life and boxing career, 1769-1795 John Jackson was born 28 September 1769 to a middle class Worcestershire family of builders who disapproved of his choice of boxing as a profession. In his boxing prime, Jackson stood 5'11" or 1.80 metres and weighed 14 stone or 195 lbs.James, Ed. (c1879) The lives and battles of the champions of England from the year 1700 to the present time, New York. His symmetry in frame and muscular development made him a prized model for sculptors and painters. However, he was said to have a sloping forehead and ears that stuck straight out from the sides of his head. He was considered an exceptional amateur boxer prior to 1788. On 9 June 1788, aged around nineteen, Jackson defeated William Futrell at Smithham Bottom, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portsea, Portsmouth
Portsea Island is a flat and low-lying natural island in area, just off the southern coast of Hampshire in England. Portsea Island contains the majority of the city of Portsmouth. Portsea Island has the third-largest population of all the islands in the British Isles after the mainlands of Great Britain and Ireland; it also has the highest population density of any British Isle, and Portsmouth has the highest population density of any city in the UK outside of London. To the east of Portsea Island lies Hayling Island, separated by Langstone Harbour. To the west is the peninsular mainland town of Gosport, separated by Portsmouth Harbour. To the south, it faces into the Spithead area of the wider Solent. A narrow tidal channel along the northern edge of Portsea Island, known as Portsbridge Creek, separates Portsea Island from the mainland. Three roads connect Portsea Island to the mainland road network; the M275 motorway, the A3 London Road (split on two separate bri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Broughton
John "Jack" Broughton (c. 1703 – 8 January 1789) was an English bare-knuckle boxer. He was the first person to codify a set of rules to be used in such contests; prior to this the "rules" that existed were very loosely defined and tended to vary from contest to contest. His seven rules of how boxing would be conducted at his amphitheatre were widely used in boxing for nearly century, until they were replaced by the London Prize Ring rules in 1838. Early life Little is certain about John Broughton's early life. He was born to unknown parents, possibly in London, though one early-20th-century history of boxing claims that he was a farmer's son from Baunton, Gloucestershire. Apprentice records show that Broughton was apprenticed to a Thames waterman in May 1723. On 1 August 1730, Broughton won the annual Doggett's Coat and Badge rowing race among watermen who had completed their apprenticeship within the previous year. At the time, he was noted as working on the shore near H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
