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The South African star Jacob Ntula gained her name on this shore

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Jacob Ntuli

When Jacob Ntula first came to Great Britain in 1952, he did it as unknown. Born in Soweto in Johannesburg, Little African won each of his 10 professional competitions and gathered on the way after the South African flying weight and Bantam. In those days, two titles that he won were non-white versions, because black fighters could not participate in full duels for South African, because they were only open to white boxers.

Jake Tuli, as he is better known, quickly adapted to Teddy Gardner in the match for the crown of Empire. In mid -August 1952, Gardner’s promoter, Sol Sheckman, who pulled out strings at ST James Hall in Newcastle, where Gardner was a great draw, offered the world champion, Yoshio Shirai, 6000 pounds to defend against Gardner next month. It was a gigantic purse for miniature men at that time, but the Japanese warrior did not bite, so Sheckman quickly organized Tula to fight Gardner.

Gardner was a prevailing British, European and Empire champion, and in comparison with a virtual novice, he was to be pressure, while Gardner survived time for a larger competition. . He also kept full -time work conducting a pub in his hometown. At the age of 34, he did not fit into 21-year-old Tula, and after the defeat she crushed, Teddy quickly retired.

Jake became 1

Then the door opened for Tula. His trainer, Dave Finn, just took out a license, and Tula was his first charge. Dave knew something about the game, fighting 174 times as a professional, at the highest level, in 1930–1946. The following month, Jake returned to St James Hall to fight Jimmy Pearce of Middlesbrough, who recently lost Terry Allen in the British title Eliminator. Tuli flattened his man in eight rounds, and Geordie Fight fans knew they had a real perspective on their hands.

Then the tragedy hit. His next competition at Royal Albert Hall was a real cracker. Bn He informed that “Viewers rarely woke up to comfort two fighters at the end of each round, as they did with joy during the competition between Jake Tuli and Honore Pratsi in France.

It was 10 rounds of sparkling actions that were a pleasure to watch and appreciated until the decision was made in favor of Tula, most viewers sway by the tribunals issued by a miniature Frenchman. ” Immediately after the competition, Pratsi fell in his wardrobe and, despite two emergency operations, died two days later.

Gloomy regret, Tuli gave his purse to the Pratsi widow and put down another engagement with Vic Herman, which took place later this month in Manchester. Tuli remained invincible in Great Britain in 1953, before he returned home to defend his non-white bastam scale three times in 10 weeks.

When he returned in December 1953, he lost from world -class Robert Cohen in Belle Vue, Manchester, he is dressed four times. Cohen won the world crown of Bantamweight just nine months later. After two years of being a master of Empire, Jake defended him against Dai Dower on the Harringay Arena. In a close competition, judge Andrew Smythe raised his hand at the end of 15 Bn He commented that it was “a depressed evening for Tula, who had returned immensely since the wrong match with Robert Cohen.”

Tuli stayed in British rings until 1957 when he returned home. The unsuccessful return in 1967 did not do any good to him, and when he died in November 1999, BnRon Olver said that his death became practically unnoticed in the South African press. His fire burned briefly, but vivid, and in 1952 he was a great name in sport, especially in the northeast.

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Version – Marco Antonio Barrera wins a furious and electrifying rubber match over Erik Morales

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Marco Antonio Barrera

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctlipjgecq

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On this day: Felix Trinidad and Fernando Vargas are sharing, fouls and exhilarating violence

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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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngk4rafo574

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When Jack Johnson visited Great Britain

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Jack Johnson

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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