History of the Heavyweight Championship – Pt1 / 9

Don’t be shocked by the Round 75. These fighters threw only a few punches a round, and dodged a lot of them.

@talibanu509 They also didn’t mention that Johnson
had lost to likes of Marvin Hart and was Ko’d by over the
hill Joe Choynski. The Jeffries v Johnson fight my have
been a very differnt story had it happened in 1905,

@ExperTiinViolence actually moron, boxing was around at the time of the egyptian empire. So are you saying egyptians are white? some ppl are so ignorant it’s actually pretty funny. To tell you the truth, I’m almost positive you’ve never even been in a boxing ring in your life

Their mustaches actually did the fighting.

Fitzsimmon’s took Corbet’s title with a left hook to the liver. He called it his “solar plexus punch” but it was the same blow that Bernard Hopkins used to kayo Oscar De La Hoya. When the blood is forced out of the liver, it’s all over.

Jake Kilrain was my great grandfather i was named after him!

wow.. thats my grand dad. James J. Corbett

@ExperTiinViolence That’s becaseu there was a colour bar. Black fighters were not allowed to fight for the world heavyweight title, until Jack Johnson did so, some years after the likes of Corbett, Sullivan, etc.

last time I checked. White men ARE the true forefathers of boxing!

@nephildevil
It wasn’t the 3 minute round structure from the Marquess of Queensbury rules though, London Prize Ring Rules stated that when a boxer was knocked down, he had 30 seconds to get up and return to the “scratch line”. Basically once a knockdown was achieved, that was the end of the round and when the boxer went back to the “scratch line” that was the beginning of the next round.

@hukootuna Lol!!!!!!!! I never laughed so hard in my life

America at its industrial greatest. Before it started to become the police state its becoming.

Cheers for posting mate, love vids like these.

LOL!!!!!!!

theres been records of people fighting for over 100 rounds, if someone wasnt knockedout at the end it was a no contest

Foerman would have killed them both in the first round.

resonate should read reverberate…

reckon you’d get a few people, me being one of them disputing this call d/boy, but hey shout it out….thaz what it’s all about ..probably then also….having just come of some fights of the 60′s where the imagery is much better and the evolution is ‘intensely visible’….what i think hasn’t evolved is the wisdom of marquis queensbury rules which allowed a sport to resonate into the future ….

I hate the fact that they didn’t state that when Jeffries retiered Jack Johnson,who was milles ahead of him was deafiting every oponent and that his retirement was shameful,eventualy he deafeted him in 1910,very very very easily and with a huge smile on his face

the evolution of the sport my ass; boxing hasn’t really changed that much at all.

these old time boxing matches barely look different from modern bouts, and truly, boxing was at its peak during the golden age.

Round 75???? HOLY SHIT!!!! George Foreman in his prime would probably be dead in round 20!

“Hit’im in the slats Bobby”!!

John L. Sullivan was the Last bare Knuckled Boxing champion and first gloved champion, b4 there was any gloved boxing it was just bare knuckled.

Yuuup…

Shit was crazy back thenlol

they might as well have been fighting bare knuckled…