With closely trimmed hair and staring from the hood and eyebrows, the warrior hits the time-honored pose. Poker face reveals the burning faith and warrior. This is Jam Carney from Birmingham, a 5 -foot Fury package, which appeared in one of the most brutal, bloody and controversial battles in the history of Ring History.

Instead of what happened that November night in the incompatible Revere, Massachusetts, Barn – a team playing to mask an illegal congregation – went to fight.

With the American champion Jacek Mcauliffe, exhausted and battered almost senseless almost, his restless supporters stormed the ring.

Fearful of riots and the arrival of law enforcement officers, the judge decided to diplomate and announce a draw. At 4 am November 16, 1887, West Midlands Terrier Carney became the recipient of the first enormous attack on transatlantic boxing.

Carney, now almost completely forgotten, was not a particularly nice person. It is unlikely that he landed in Panto. He had a white temperament, he was a fearing street fighter and mastered every filthy trick in the book.

Carney was a product of his surroundings. As a child, he fought hunger. Michael and Mary’s parents brought their offspring to Birmingham when potato hunger reflected.

As a needy hedgehog, Carney fought prejudices against those who did not have the impression of a flood of immigrants from Ireland. As an athlete, he fought pain near endurance. From the draw of July 1880 with George “Punch” Callow-Konkursu in the fresh air, which took place in the conditions of Quagmire-One Sports Screb wrote: “It became an indecent battle fighting for the limbs of human durability and endurance.” Like what appeared in eight years, it was reported that it lasted 74 rounds. The rounds were different then, of course, their times are not as strict as today. Still, he was still unthinkable to fight. I eat most of this marathon with a broken hand.

As a boxer, Carney tried a tragedy. In a forest container in Młyński mills, Sutton Coldfield, October 7, 1881, ruthlessly hit Jimmy Highland’s midriff. With a broken chest, the brave Jimmy could, in the 43rd round, not fight anymore. He died of internal injuries three days later, and Carney was accused of murder.

As a boxer, he faced prison. He was acquitted of the allegation, but served six months for participating in the fight for prizes.

At that time, society did not prohibit sport due to risk to participants. It was corruption, theft and public disorder that went manually with matches that MPS had a problem.

The hardships prepared Carney for Bloodbath against Mcauliffe, a man perceived as a radiant future of the game: he used the study and work of his legs, not wild.

Carney, mean as a broke dog, sailed to the States to embarrass the golden boy to meet him.

He made American fans get up and noticed, heading to Jimmy Mitchell, an American master who boasted that he had never been dropped.

On the barge 30 miles up the river from Long Island, June 18, 1887, I sent it many times. With Mitchell, he called Surrender four times in the 11th round. Carney received $ 2,000 for a victory in a fight called the fight for the title of Master in some record books.

According to the evening newsletter, fans were present “the biggest fight she has ever seen in this country.”

The American audience wanted Mcauliffe to put Birmingham in his place. It was the dawn of the era of gloves, but only. In front of the chosen audience in a secret location, gladiators wore tight gloves, which were stated that they only weigh three ounces.

This audience was almost a witness to the early, clear victory of McaUliffe they wanted. Carney was dropped three times in the first laughter, a mocking opponent. A dancing figure frustrated before him, I eaten from McaUliffe standing and fighting. “I will give you enough” – he mocked his torturer.

Gradually, Carney’s arrows have affected the harvest. The newborn Upstart slowed down, his meters were no longer piercing. The smile left his face.

In the case of Carney there were still crises to overcome. According to Somerset, Herald to Somerset, Massachusetts-he recognized “terrible right-handed to the back of the nose, which divided the open organ.” It did not bother eating – he spent his whole life, trying his own blood.

Mcauliffe was dropped on the 15th and from now on both of them developed each other.

The fight was now in the trenches and I eat in the trench war.

“Carney”, wrote St Paul Daily Globe, “is undoubtedly one of the worst fighters in the world. Several times his seconds and the judge had his hands full to prevent losing foul, kicking or hitting an opponent who after the 20th round tried to win a foul. “

The American pretended to be a low blow, and then tried to throw his opponent to bite. Carney just smiled, flashed with a bloody smile and explained to the judge that he had lost his teeth earlier.

In the 45th round of Mcauliffe was close – but he fought against the opponent whose left eye was closed.

“62. The round was marked by wonderful exchanges, “said Herald. “They both fought like demons and took a punishment like iron people.”

McaUliffe fans attacked the ring for the first time in this round, and Carney was at the head of the fight in the close, pushing them back.

“In 71, 72 and 73th place”, wrote Globe, “It was a basic case of” Win, Wangle or Tie “on the part of the McAULiffe party. Mcauliffe was a brave man and wanted his friends to give up for him, because Carney knocked him down many times and raced around the ring. “

The widely wounded boxer was finally saved during the 74th session, and another invasion completely destroys the ring. The owner of the barn, abandoned from the building, would be set on fire if Carney won, demanded an end. The judge, with a full fight on his arms, happily agreed.

Carney, who died in London on September 11, 1941 at the age of 84, risked his life and limb for nothing.

After McaUliffe, he had only one competitive fight, losing a foul for throwing his opponent to the floor.

In January 1889, it was reported that he retired and opened a pub in Cardiff. Do not make a mistake when Carney shouted time in the bar, the players finished the drinks.

By Miles Templeton

One thing that boxes have many characters. Promoters, trainers and managers are often greater than life, and boxers often more. One of such characters was Eddie McGorta from Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Eddie would fight anyone, wherever he wondered all over the world. Australians even recognized him as a world -high -medium world champion.

I chose him to this column because of his intriguing record against British warriors, both here as in the United States, and because of the caliber of men he fought in a 20-year career, which ended in 1922.

His most renowned opponent is undoubtedly the great Harry Greb. They both clashed in 1918, and McGoorta came out at the wrong end of the 10-round decision. It seems that Greb has currently acquired a almost mythical status among boxing fans, many of which are teenage contextual. At a time when there is little respect of great boxers from the past, it seems that Greb has exceeded this prejudice, and many called him the greatest boxer he has ever lived. This cannot be proved, because there is no recording of a great man in the ring, which I think is extraordinary.

The McGorty was first crossed by the Atlantic in 1909, when he defeated Nutty Curran in 20-Rundy in Dublin. He stayed in Ireland for four months, winning four out of five competitions. His only loss was against Tom Lancaster with Spennyneoor, a real difficult nut, who won the Medium Pitmen weight championship in 1909 under 10^th Winning in the round over Tom Stokes with Mexborough. Stokes was thrown into a butting, but it didn’t bother Lancaster, who was as difficult as it happened. The victory over McORTY was undoubtedly the best victory for Tom in the 56-host career with just nine losses.

McGorta noted three more wins in England, and then, in 1912, to be flattened by Jacek Harrison, a master of British medium weight, in one round in Madison Square Garden.

In 1918, McGorta represented the United States in the victory tournament, which took place at Royal Albert Hall. This event took place to celebrate the allied victory in the First World War, and people from the entire community and the United States, including Harry Greb, took part. McGorty lost to the final winner of Bombardier Billy Wells, in the heavyweight semi -final.

In 1919 and 1920, McGorta met most of our leading weights and featherlight many times in Great Britain. Among those he defeated were Tom Gummer, Harry Reeve and Bandsman Rice. Then he was adapted to the fight with Joe Beckett, the British heavyweight champion in the 20-round competition at Olympia. About a week before the McGorta competition, he was to be “drunk and unable” at Tottenham Court Road, behind which he was fined in 10 shillings at Bow Street Magistrates Court. Realizing that he upset the promoter, Charles B cochran, and that his behavior could have been affected by the interest of the competition, McGorta tried to fix the press: “I had to be a victim of a wave of heat. I knew I wasn’t drunk. I pleaded guilty in court because I wanted to escape from the advertisement, but I was unlucky. Not concerned, Mr. Cochran, I will be able to fight the fight of my life against Beckett. “

McGorta took a decent performance against Beckett, falling in the 17th round of a ponderous duel. Among the many other great fighters with whom McGorty he laughed in his career, which began in 1902, were George Chip, fighting Levinsky, Mike Gibbons, Les Darcy, Jeff Smith, Frank Klaus and Jack Dillon. His last fight in Great Britain took place at Windsor Conservative Club from all places when he detained Jacek Stanley in three rounds.

He died in 1929, at the age of 40, due to throat ailments. He was a difficult -living, difficult -fighting scrap of Irish origin, which is so rarely seen in American rings.

By Miles Templeton

It is demanding to believe now, but in 1942 a competition for the British and the Empire of titles in which both boxers, judge and supervisor served the members of the Royal Air Force. Of course, the war continued, but many boxers were in reserved competitions and therefore were released from service, and most of those who registered were about the army or navy.

Len Harvey pilot officer successfully defended his title against Jock McVoy in the summer of 1939, and the day after the outbreak of the war in September 1939 he enlisted to Raf. In addition to the fact that he was a champion in ponderous weight, he was also a master of British heavyweight, defeating Eddie Phillips in Harringay in 1938.

Sergeant Freddie Mills joined RAF at the beginning of 1940 after he lit the trail through the leading British in the middle and featherlight. Freddie was able to continue his professional boxing career for the period in 1940–1942, when he took part in 18 competitions, winning 16 years, because many programs he bothering were supporting war efforts. On the other hand, Harvey did not fight for three years when he crossed the gloves with Mills in June 1942.

When the war was announced, the government forbade the general population of gathering in vast crowds, fearing what kind of goal it could create for Luftwaffe. Therefore, the number of boxing promotions, especially vast, has decreased dramatically. After Raf won the Battle of Great Britain in 1940 and stopped in the worst Blitz by the end of 1941, these rules were slightly relaxed.

John Muldoon, a serving plane himself, promoted the shows at Royal Albert Hall and was encouraged to get closer to two fighters to see if they could agree on the conditions for the competition to take place at White Hart Lane, the Tottenham Hotspur house. Harvey willingly agreed, provided that the tournament brought benefits to the Red Cross and Mills fund, which would fight anyone, would be more satisfied with this opportunity.

Mills received two weeks of vacation from his unit to prepare for a fight and trained in a properly named Airman hotel in Feltham. He was a real tear in the ring, and his style can be best described as a “blow and hit.” He would be cheerful to take two good shots to land three. Harvey was a much more stylist and 35 years elderly saw his best days. In the 1930s he had a reputation of an elegant boxer with a compact left hand. Initially, he competed for the British welterweight title in 1926, when Mills was only six years elderly, attracting with Alex Ireland. Then he won British titles with three weights, middle, featherlight and ponderous. Everyone in the country knew him by name because he was probably the most eminent boxer. Unfortunately, it was more tough to get a vacation and was relatively badly prepared to fight.

The judge of the competition was Eugene Henderson, Sergeant Raf, a very experienced third man and exefter himself. When he called two men in the first round, there were about 42,000 around the earth, representing the greatest attendance in the war in Great Britain. Mills did not waste time, tearing from Harvey from off, and Aged Len tried to stop him. In the second round Mills managed to land on the left hook, which he went to his man to count nine and then the huge upper upper, who completely threw Harvey from the compact ring. He did not return in time and Mills became a champion. Harvey never fought again and remained in Raf until 1946, like Mills, who became the world champion in 1948.