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When the British team ABA neglected Novel York champions Golden Gloves

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ABA team, 1935

The Bronx, Novel York, July 2, 1935. The spectacular Yankee stadium, in which the Novel York Yankees lives, hosted 48,000 fans of the fight to see a special amateur program directed by the former king of ponderous heavyweight heavyweight Gene Tunney.

Golden Gloves champions in Novel York intended to test their enthusiasm against the British team of ABA. Paul Gallico, the celebrated sport who founded gold gloves and helped organize this event, said that the British were surprised by the time of this amateur tournament. He wrote rather patronly: “Our whole matter with the reflector and music, tips and flags and what we call a presentation, makes them a bit tired. They do not do such things in Merry, England and do not understand why we do it.”

Gallico and other ring reporters expected a clear victory in the Crack American team. They were surprised. As the competitions passed, the wins for the ABA team quickly set up. The most crucial British amateurs rinsed their American counterparts – including (in retrospect, the most unusual of all), in which this is the huge triumph of Albert Barnes Cardiff because of the future world champion in fertilization, Petey Scalzo.

But the Novel Yorkers believed that they had an ace in a skying – heavyweight. It was the age of the “horizontal British heavyweight”, when the great people of Great Britain turned out to be a slight adaptation to their more solid rivals in the USA.

However, the ABA team had two great ponderous ponderous in Tony Stuart (London Fire Brigade) and Pat Floyd (Battersea and The Times). Between them they created a virtual monopoly of British heavyweight awards, winning four ABA titles and directed to each other in six finals. In total, they fought 16 times, winning eight pieces.

In ABA vs Golden Glovers Showdown Stuart took care of Larry Green, winner of the second place in the Novel York Golden Gloves final and stopped him for three. While Floyd, this year’s champion by ABA, faced Jim Howell of Harlem, who defeated Green to win the Novel York Golden Gloves crown.

Pat, a skillful 6 -step technician that could hit with both hands, packed well to get the Verdict of Gene Tunney. This and the victory of Stuart was an icing on the cake in eight wins in the ABA team. Then Tunney, along with another heavyweight legend Jacek Dempsey, praised Pat’s performance and urged him to change the professional. But the Englishman – an amateur – was not interested.

“I used to train in the Joe Bloom gym,” said Floyd later Boxing news“Sparring with any professional who came: Tommy Farr, Len Harvey, Daniels Gips, Danny and Packy Paul, Al Delaney, Robey Leibbrandt and the unhappy del fontaine. Joe Bloom called me” Mad Amateur “because I boxed for free and paid my own expenses.”

Nevertheless, Pat would fall as one of the best in Great Britain in heavyweight history, establishing a seal for fame when he came out of a pension at the age of 35 to win the title of ABA from 1946 after a long release. Like Pat, Tony Stuart has never changed a professional. Floyd said about his great rival: “Tony was probably the best ponderous I’ve ever met. But for him I could set a record of ABA titles.”

Later, Pat reached the mark of a class A judge, retiring on the basis of medical, before he could get a star license. He made an indelible boxing trail, but admitted that he regretted that he had not changed a professional.

If Floyd and Stuart tried their hand in paid ranks, the British heavyweight king Tommy Farr could have two stern national rivals.

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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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