In my last column, I looked back at the unforgettable victory of the British team of ABA over a group of America’s elite amateurs in a special show at the Yankee stadium in 1935. The British were praised for their triumph over “Golden Glovers”, especially two massive, Pat Floyd and Tony Stuart. With a clear win they made the necessary progress in the erosion of the “horizontal British heavyweight” marker, which harassed our great people.
I wrote about the four -time heavyweight limit, ABA Pat Floyd, but spatial restrictions prevented me from more about my great rival and friend, fighting Guard Tony Stuart. Like Floyd, Stuart won the Crown of massive weight four times, and between them they dominated the division in a decade before World War II. It is intriguing to think about how these two would do as professionals, but they both rejected all offers to make him.
However, they shared in the gym with leading professionals. Like the outstanding British sport, Gazon, he wrote about Stuart in 1937 (the year of the fourth title of Abba Tony): “He is probably the most -traveling amateur and the richest boxing knowledge. Whenever it requires trying a possible master, Stuart is a man who would say the best or the worst.”
Max Baer and Tommy Farr used Tony to prepare for significant fights, just like “The Blonde Tiger” Walter NeusselGerman title and top -class on the European heavyweight scene. Neusel defeated world -class men, such as Larry Gains, King Levinsky and former world champion and world heavyweight title Tommy Loughran.
In November 1936, Walter was in Great Britain for his widespread first fight with Ben Foord, a hazardous South African, who, like German, was a great draw on our banks. Walter crashed the camp at The Star & Parter in Windsor, a pub topped with a boxing gym, which was the preferred training base for many masters. Astutle, Neusel brought Stuart as a sparring partner, but he got more than for them.
As the writer of the fight Charles Darby remembered Boxing news: “Neusel came in with the obvious intention of showing who was the boss. Two massive strokes hugged Stuart’s head, and the upper right Uppercut took a affable smile from Stuart’s face. But it was as far as Neusel could show who he was a professional and who was an” ordinary amateur “.
“The real English left hand was thrown into the face of Germany like Ramrod once for time … Neusel came out to drop a London firefighter, but was fascinated by Lewaki and the rights … Stuart broke home the right to the jaw, which sent a German blonde in a tiny space to collide with a bundle of excited viewers who stayed with oil for an costly life … Although Neusl A week. “
Two months later, Tony returned to Star & Goder to facilitate Neusel prepare for the third fight in his trilogy with British Jacek Petersen. Petersen lost for the third time, but in his wars in the gym with Neusel once again Stuart was shining. This time Tony was on the headlines, when he raised Neusel with his left hook in front of the sports press. “It was the first time I saw Neusel knocked down in England,” noted known Daily Mirror Columnist Peter Wilson.
At the peak of his success, Stuart was reportedly offered 1000 pounds – a gigantic sum in the 1930s – to change a professional, but would not be swayed. He said boxing was a sport for him. He would stay with fire as a profession.
Marco Antonio Barrera in MD 12 Erik Morales November 27, 2004; MGM Grand, Las Vegas, NV Mexican warriors Barrera and Morales ended their epic trilogy in a properly urgent style, creating another unforgettable war. Entering in the start, in the case of the Super Feather WBC Morales belt, the series stood with one winner per item. Morales won the initial meeting in Super-Bantam in 2000, and Barrera secured the creation of a rematch in 2002 in a featherweight-the decisions were questioned. Accordingly, the verdict in the rubber match also caused a debate. As in the previous two meetings, bitter enemies got involved in a furious fight, and the electrifying 11 round turned out to be particularly cruel. Ultimately, Barrera went to the top and adapted Morales’s achievement, becoming the three world letter.
Do you know? At that time, WBO Feather Highland Scott Harrison was interested in an observer in Ringside. He hoped to catch the winner.
Watch out for: In the middle of nine, the fighters are involved in the clinch, and Barrera is bursting morale at the back of the head with a legal apparatus. Uninvited by his opponent, Morales refuses to touch Barrera gloves when the judge was asked.
Felix Trinidad in RSF 12 Fernando Vargas December 2, 2000; Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, NV A lot was expected about the battle of unification of power between Trinidad and Vargas and, fortunately, did not disappoint. Trinidad, who defended his title WBA, jumped out of the blocks and twice started in the opener twice. Vargas returned a favor in the fourth round, sending Trinidad to a mat. Even worse for Felix, he was also deducted to a low blow. The same violation meant that the next point was taken from Trinidad in seventh place, before Vargas lost the point after a closer south of the border in 10. Constant violence with the view lasted to 12., in which the trio knocking up from Trinidad finally ended to a perfectly exhilarating competition.
Do you know? Former victim of Trinidad, Kevin Lueshing, called Boxing news Offices to discuss a brutal conclusion to fight. He said: “It caused a terrible memory of how he finished me.”
Watch out for: The complete HBO Pay-Per-View transmission is available to watch on YouTube. In Undercard he presents himself like Christa Martin, William Joppy and Ricardo Lopez.
This is the latest in the occasional series about the heavyweight champions of the world and their visits to Great Britain. In previous articles I wrote about Primo Carner and Langford himself, and this week I will look at Jacek Johnson and his British concert tour of 1908. Jackjohnson came to Great Britain on Monday, April 27 from the States, when the German steamer, Kronprinz Wilhelm, did in Plymouth. He was accompanied by his manager, Fitzpatrick himself, and two men immediately followed the train from Plymouth to the Paddington station in London, checked in at the Adelphi Hotel, and in the evening he visited the British Botker, in the field of eight circles, to see 20 rounds.
Johnson was in Great Britain to hunt Tommy Burns, also visiting London, to force him to defend the title, which, as we know, took place in Sydney eight months later. Two men exchanged words in Sporting Press and Burns, who stayed in Jacek’s Castle, in a pub in Hampstead, immediately published 1000 pounds from The Sporting Life, stating that if the Johnson camp was fitting to this amount, the fight was turned on. Fitzpatrick opposed the terms for which Burns insisted on the proposed match and refused to cover money. Johnson challenged the shooting moir, but it was rejected when Moir drew a color line and refused to meet the American.
Johnson spent the majority of this summer, appearing in various music rooms in Great Britain, boxing at exhibitions with a wide British heavyweight, including Jewey Smith, Jam Styles and Fred Drummond. In those days it was quite lucrative for the highest level boxers. Then he was tailored to Ben Taylor (Woolwich) to a 20-round competition in Plymouth. Jack trained on a fight at Regent’s Park and at the Junior High School at the National Sporting Club. He left the Waterloo station on July 30 to go to Plymouth for a fight, which was to take place the next day in Cosmopolitan Gymnasium, Mill Street. A vast contingent of fans welcomed him in the city of Devon, which at that time was the center of the fight of the great importance.
Jack Johnson had to chase his fight with Tommy Burns
The competition, as you can expect, turned out to be one -sided when Johnson defeated Taylor with ease, raising him 11 times in front of a judge called Halt in the eighth round. After the duel, Johnson praised Taylor at his break, stating that he never met a player during his entire career. Later that night at the Mount Pleasant Hotel gathered at the Mount Pleasant Hotel, near the cosmopolitan, where Taylor founded his training camp, and Jack appeared to give Taylor again congratulations to Taylor for organizing such a good competition.
Johnson took part in a series of exhibitions in Dublin, and then in Bristol, where he participated in the Bristol City Vs Everton football match in Ashton Gate – his first experience in sport. Until September 7, he returned to London and announced that in October he was adapted to Box Mike Schreck at the National Sporting Club. On September 14, Schreck manager Jimmy Kelly was announced that the fight was not turned off because Schreck could not be relied to get to a decent condition for the fight.
Together with Burns in Australia, Johnson remained high and desiccated, without a significant fight, so the National Sports Club organized a competition against Sam Langford, which took place at the club on November 9. What would be a coup d’état – a match between the two best bulky scales in the world – but unfortunately this did not happen. On Monday, September 21, Johnson left the Charing Cross Station on the planned Łódź train at 13.20 to France to start a long journey to Australia, where he finally met and defeated Tommy Burns three months later.
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