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From Figg to Johnson; A Complete History of the Heavyweight Championship, Containing Dates and Accurate Descriptions of Every Contest for the World's

From Figg to Johnson; A Complete History of the Heavyweight Championship, Containing Dates and Accurate Descriptions of Every Contest for the World's


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ... john L. sullivan'S defeat, And the Six Champions Who Have Reigned Under the Marquis of Queensberry Rules. It is the year 1892. John L. Sullivan is still champion of the prize ring. His fame is world-wide, his popularity second to that of no other American. From a tour of Australia he has returned with the cheers of strangers ringing in his ears and their money jingling in his pockets. Peter Jackson, a native Porto Rican, who has come to America with the championship of Australia, wrested from Tom Lees after thirty hard rounds, challenges, and for reply is reminded that John L. Sullivan is not fighting negroes. No one questions Sullivan's fearlessness, none questions his invincibility.! Haughty when occasion seems to demand, proudfully dignified when the rating of his profession is at stake, he is possessed at other and at most times with the spirit of genuine democracy/an attribute.that has endeared him to a million Americans and morej It is the year 1892, and, unsuspected, John L. Sullivan's Waterloo is prepared for him. At the apex of his career, the crown is to be snatched from his brow, his prosperity cut short! A former bank clerk, a trim-cut athlete from the Pacific seaboard, who wears his hair in a luxurious pompadour, a young fellow of twenty-six years, weighing about 185 pounds and standing an inch taller than six feet, is rising to fistic prominence. It is Tames J. Corhett. who boasts of a sixty-one-round draw with Peter Jackson, not to mention victories over such men as Joe Choynski, Jack Burke, Jake Kilrain and Dominick McCaffrey. Sullivan, piqued by Corbett's boasts, challenges the young man to fight for $10,000 a side under Marquis of Queensberry rules. To his surprise, Corbett at once accepts the defi. The Olympic Club of...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781230433936
  • Publisher: Theclassics.Us
  • Publisher Imprint: Theclassics.Us
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 56
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1230433937
  • Publisher Date: 12 Sep 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 118 gr


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