Boxing History
The story of a forgotten British master
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100 years ago, the career of one of the earliest British medium weight masters came to an end when the Jack Blake team was knocked out in the second round of the competition in the ring, Blackfriars by Albert Rogers from Mitcham.
It was his 62nd professional professional who dates back to 1910. Blake maintained the title of British middleweight in 1916–1918, when he won and then lost to Pat O’keefe from Canning Town. Because the country was in the war, Blake did not have the right opportunity to earn a master, and the loss in the rematch with O’keefe was his first defense. Perhaps Blake is best remembered for his competition, in 1914, together with the British heavyweight champion, Bombardier Billy Wells, in a 20-round competition for the Wells title at London Palladium in Soho. This fight took place two years before winning the title of medium weight, or at least on paper it would be more arduous to find a more pronounced example of mismatch.
Both Blake and Wells were the products of the system that many British champions produced at that time, because they both learned boxing in the army, and when they were released, both men soon was awarded as professionals. Blake drew the attention of the leading promoter Dick Burge, former British medium champion, and in March 1913 he fought at Burge, Ring, Blackfriars, for the first time. The ring was a leading boxing place in London until it was destroyed by Luftwaffe in 1942, and Burge was a man who put this place. Promising provincial boxers, like Blake, were often slammed by London’s best promoters for a 10-week contract, and that’s how Blake happened this year. He had 11 consecutive competitions in the ring between March and November 1913 and won the parking lot, most of them at a distance.
On Fresh Year, 1914, he met the celebrated American medium weight, Dixie Kid, in the 20th-round in the ring, and convincingly won the fight. This led to Burge’s enthusiasm that his promising charge became rather sanguine. Negotiations were opened to the competition with Georges Carpentier And with the leading Americans, Frank Klaus and George Chip, two men who have recently met in the world’s world. Much larger headlines appeared when Burge challenged Wells to meet his man in the field of British heavyweight title.
Many promoters were excited about this match, despite the lack of experience and the size of Blake, and the huge offers of the handbag flew there back before the match, which was finally secured by Burge, with an offer of 850 pounds, a huge character before the First World War. Wells was just stuck by Georges Carpentier in one round and there were huge assessments of questions over his ability to hit, especially in the body, and this has just believed that Blake could beat him. BN was less convinced: “Blake has not so far abolished the opponent who is endowed with the speed or force of the bombardier’s impact. Will he be able to, will he be ready to continue his aggressive and dynamic methods after he got acquainted with a few Billy’s hits?”
In this case, Blake took a very decent fight, and then succumbed to a greater man in four rounds. After entering the Ring, Wells looked nervous and took a real paste in the first round because of the Blake lock and energy. Blake ran points before Wells’s bodies began to tardy him down. Grace of the coup was delivered in the fourth round, leaving Blake spread to canvas, to the world.
After this fight, Blake wisely stuck to his weight class, and his British victory title in 1914 showed how good the warrior was. After retiring, he bought a huge property in his hometown, Great Yarmouth, where he became a swimming instructor. He died in 1961 at the age of 70.
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The green man was a pub on Blackheath Hill with boxeria above him. He shot in importance as a boxing plant in 1937, when two world warriors, Great Britain Tommy Farr And America Petey Sarron decided to train there. The British weighty title Farr was preparing for Showdown on April 15 with Max Baer, who would ultimately lead him to a heavyweight title defining the career with Joe Louis four months later. The prevailing champion of the world featherweight, Sarron, was preparing to fight with the same Survivist-first in this country-a former British Lightweight King Harry Mizler.
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“The presence of Tommy Farr and Petey Sarron will undoubtedly bring them a lot of publicity and recommendations, because in addition to the fact that the British champion was very enthusiastically focused on it, later I learned from Jimmy Erwin, the world champion manager that he was looking at all training exercises in the south of England, not finding a place that suited him better.”
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