For most of the past 150 years, the Heavyweight Boxing Championship was the biggest title in all of sports. The man who wore the belt was usually regarded. Irish American Boxers. William Aimer. William Aimer (1. Irish bare knuckle boxing champion, being most famous for only ever losing one fight, the one that killed him. He was very poorly educated as a child and as a result could not read or write, but showed a natural ability for fighting. His height is reported from being between 6'4. Aged 1. 5 he started his fighting career, trained by his father, fighting boys from other gypsy families. Go directly to: blackhawk films castle films ken films, columbia, united artists atlas films, walton, miscellanious others walt disney home movies. We might never see one like him again. Muhammad Ali, the lyrical heavyweight showman who thrilled the globe with his sublime boxing style. Boxing is a combat sport in which two people wearing protective gloves throw punches at each other for a predetermined set of time in a boxing ring. Find the latest sports news and articles on the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, NCAA college football, NCAA college basketball and more at ABC News. The 25 Greatest Super Fights. Boxing’s biggest bouts that lived up to the hype. BY ALLEN KIM and richard o'brien. SCROLL DOWN TO EXPLORE. By 1. 8 he was fighting men twice his age (with twice the experience) as he had worn out the competition at his level. The fight lasted for 8. Connolly was finally knocked unconscious. Though he won Aimer suffered a broken nose, fractured wrist and a broken hand. The fight was going Aimers way until he collapsed in round 1. He managed to regain consciousness and continue but Norett landed a blow to the side of a confused Aimers head knocking him down again. Aimer did not get back up. Archer defeated Sugar Ray Robinson in Robinson's final fight in 1. Hall of Fame boxers such as Emile Griffith and Dick Tiger. Joey. He represented Ireland in the light- flyweight division at the 2. Olympics in Beijing, China, where he won a bronze medal. Source: http: //en. Boxing, sport of fighting with fists, also called pugilism and prizefighting.Francie. Along with Rocky Marciano, Ricardo Lopez, Ji- Won Kim, and Joe Calzaghe, Barry is one of only five boxing champions to retire undefeated. Barry won the Bantamweight Championship of the World match five times. On December 6, 1. London, England, Barry knocked out Walter Walter Croot in the 1. World Bantamweight title for the fifth time. Croot struck his head on the floor and died of a brain injury. Barry was exonerated, but he never knocked a fighter out again. He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2. Fighting under the name James J. Braddock (ostensibly because two prior champions, James J. Jeffries had), his ability to win fights in which he was an underdog earned him the nickname Cinderella Man. A strapping young man born in New York City into a poor Irish family, following a successful amateur career Jim Braddock turned pro at the age of 2. Three years later in 1. Tommy Loughran in a 1. This was followed by another loss to Maxie Rosenbloom and for the next six years he struggled to earn a living as the Great Depression took hold and income opportunities in the boxing business were limited for most mid- ranked fighters. However, he was given a fight with the highly touted John . Although Braddock was intended as a stepping stone in Griffin's rise, Braddock scored an upset victory. After defeating another highly regarded heavyweight contender, John Henry Lewis, he was given a title fight against the World Heavyweight Champion, Max Baer. Considered no more than a journeyman fighter, Braddock was chosen by the champion's handlers because he was seen as a guaranteed easy payday for the champion. In one of the biggest upsets in championship boxing, on June 1. Long Island City, New York, Braddock won the heavyweight championship of the world as the 1. The fight showed a dogged Braddock taking heavy hits from the powerful champion but who kept coming until he wore Baer down. At the end, the judges gave Braddock the title with a unanimous decision. Jim Braddock suffered from problems with his hands after several injuries and in 1. Madison Square Garden against the German, Max Schmeling had to be cancelled. When ready to fight, the 3. Braddock chose to defend his title against the then 2. Joe Louis. Realizing that Louis would be a heavy favorite and being an astute businessman, Braddock negotiated an agreement whereby he would receive 1. Louis' future earnings. Braddock knocked Louis down in the first round of their June 2. Louis recovered and dominated the bout, earning an 8th round stoppage. Braddock fought one more fight in 1. In 1. 95. 4, he was given the James J. Walker Award in recognition of his long and meritorious service to the boxing industry. On his passing in 1. New Jersey, Jim Braddock was interred in the Mount Carmel Cemetery in Englewood, New Jersey. He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2. A park in the city of North Bergen, New Jersey is named in his honor. Martin Burke. BORN : September 1. New Orleans, Louisiana. DIED : Unknown. HEIGHT : 6- 3. WEIGHT : 1. 70- 1. ETHNICITY : White; Irish- American. MANAGER : Jimmy Dunn. Burke fought all of the top names in the middlweight through heavyweight divisions. In retirement, Burke became a successful boxing & wrestling promoter in the New Orleans area. Burke's Record - http: //www. Anthony Byrne, more commonly common known as Tony Byrne or Socks Byrne(born in 6 July, 1. Drogheda, Ireland) is a former amateur boxer. Byrne won a bronze medal for Ireland at the 1. Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia in the lightweight division. The heavyweight boxing champion of Ireland, he was drawn to England by the larger sums of prize money and his hopes to become the heavyweight champion there as well. He became one of only six fighters worldwide to have been involved in fatal fights as both survivor and deceased since records began in 1. Its patronage and popularity did not, however, free it from corruption, heavy betting, and staged fights. Byrne fought just eight recorded matches. His career and notability can be evaluated by just three of those contests: his fights against Alexander Mc. Kay, Jem Ward, and James Burke. In the fight with Mc. Kay, Mc. Kay was killed; in the following fight against Ward, Byrne lost and was said to have been unfit to fight; and in his final bout against James Burke, Byrne himself was killed. Clark Nickname(s) Professor Lightweight Nationality Irish American Birth date May 1. Birth place Galway, Ireland Death date July 2. He was born in County Galway, but spent most of his childhood in England before moving to the United States. Clark was a clog and jig dancer before pursuing a career in prize- fighting. He was the Lightweight Champion of America for two streaks before losing to Arthur Chambers in 1. He owned a billiard hall and boxing school in Philadelphia. The Dubliner will be forever remembered as the man who won Ireland. The Barcelona Olympics bought the whole of Ireland to a standstill as Carruth, one of triplets, reached the pinnacle of success in the Welterweight final. The Irish man beat the great Cuban Juan Hernandez who was the reigning Junior World Champion, a Latin American Champion and a Pan American Champion. Therefore it is one of our greatest honours in Terrace Talk Ireland that Michael Carruth so willingly came on the show to share with us one magical moment of one of Irish sport. He was known as a quick and . On October 1. 8, 1. Middleweight Champion of America, John Rooke, in 3 rounds. Rooke had promised to knock Cleary out before the fourth round. He developed tuberculosis and died the same year. He was buried in Belfast, New York, but his body was moved next to his mother's plot at New Cathedral Cemetery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. BORN: Jul 2. 9 1. Middletown County, Armagh, Ireland. DIED : Dec. 6 1. 89. New York, NY HEIGHT : 5- 9 1/4 WEIGHT : 1. For Coburn's record - http: //www. Jim Coffey(the . He is considered to be one of the toughest boxers of the past century, never having been stopped in a high profile career. The Irishman was part of a golden age of European Supermiddleweight boxing, along with Chris Eubank, Joe Calzaghe and Nigel Benn. He was trained by Freddie Roach throughout his career. Collins started boxing profesionally in 1. However he was long considered the nearly man of boxing, after losing 3 World Title fights on points. It was not until Collins reached his 3. WBO Middleweight champion and later the WBO Supermiddleweight champion. Source: http: //en. Steve. His first win came almost a month later, on July 2. Johnny Lewis, by a knockout in three rounds. Conn is now a member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame in Canastota, New York. He had a professional boxing record of 6. He coached boxing at the Olympic Club in San Francisco. Dubbed by the media as . He has been called the . Sullivan in the 2. His victory made him the first heavyweight boxer to win a championship under the Marquess of Queensberry rules which, amongst other things, established that a fight consist of three- minute rounds and required the fighters to wear leather boxing gloves. Jim Corbett lost his championship to Bob Fitzsimmons on March 1. Carson City, Nevada. Following his retirement from boxing, Corbett returned to acting, appearing on stage and in film. He authored his autobiography under the title The Roar of the Crowd that was serialized by The Saturday Evening Post in six weekly installments during October/November of 1. The following year, G. P. Putnam's Sons, published it in book form, marketing it as the . On its creation, he was elected posthumously to the International Boxing Hall of Fame. For Corbett's fight record - http: //www. Peter Corcoran(British Bare Knuckle Heavyweight Champion 1. Peter Corcoran was born in 1. Athy Co. He was the son a Farm Labourer, and from an early age he too worked on local farms. In the early 1. 76. Athy to escape the law. It is alleged that Corcoran killed a local man in a drunken brawl about a woman. Corcoran left Athy, and he never returned. For more on his life - http: //www. William Harrison . During the 1. 92. Born in Manassa, Colorado, by age 1. Dempsey had begun hopping on trains and travelling west to fight as a professional. He would go into saloons and challenge for fights saying . His exact fight record is not known because sometimes he boxed under the pseudonym, Kid Blackie. This practice continued until 1. In between, he first appeared as Jack Dempsey in 1. Young Herman in six rounds. After that fight, he won six bouts in a row by knockout (as Jack Dempsey), before losing for the first time, on a disqualification in four to Jack Downes. During this early part of his career, Dempsey campaigned in Utah frequently. He followed his loss against Downey with a knockout win and two draws versus Johnny Summerland in Nevada. Joe Louis - Wikipedia. Joe Louis. Louis in 1. Statistics. Real name. Joseph Louis Barrow. Nickname(s)Brown Bomber. Rated at. Heavyweight. Height. 6 ft 2 in (1. Reach. 76 in (1. 93 cm)Nationality. American. Born(1. May 1. 3, 1. 91. 4La. Fayette, Alabama, U. S. Died. April 1. Paradise, Nevada, U. S. Stance. Orthodox. Boxing record. Total fights. Wins. 66. Wins by KO5. Losses. 3Joseph Louis Barrow (May 1. He reigned as the world heavyweight champion from 1. Louis' championship reign lasted 1. Ezzard Charles in 1. Charles' heavyweight title and so is not included in Louis' reign. Louis was victorious in 2. Julio C. In 2. 00. Louis was ranked as the best heavyweight of all time by the International Boxing Research Organization. He is widely regarded as the first African American to achieve the status of a nationwide hero within the United States, and was also a focal point of anti- Nazi sentiment leading up to and during World War II. He suffered from a speech impediment and spoke very little until about the age of six. Legend has it that he tried to hide his pugilistic ambitions from his mother by carrying his boxing gloves inside his violin case. Louis made his debut in early 1. Legend has it that before the fight, the barely- literate Louis wrote his name so large that there was no room for his last name, and thus became known as . More likely, Louis simply omitted his last name to keep his boxing pursuits a secret from his mother. He later lost in the Chicago Golden Gloves Tournament of Champions. The next year, competing in the Golden Gloves' Open Division, he won the light heavyweight classification, this time also winning the Chicago Tournament of Champions. However, a hand injury forced Louis to miss the New York/Chicago Champions' cross- town bout for the ultimate Golden Gloves championship. In April 1. 93. 4, he followed up his Chicago performance by winning the United States Amateur Champion National AAU tournament in St. Louis, Missouri. By the end of his amateur career, Louis's record was 5. Professional career. He tallied 5. 2 knock outs and held the championship from 1. After returning from retirement, Louis failed to regain the championship in 1. Rocky Marciano in 1. The man who had been called the Brown Bomber was finished. As Louis explained in his autobiography, Roxborough convinced the young fighter that white managers would have no real interest in seeing a black boxer work his way up to title contention. The white managers were not interested in the men they were handling but in the money they could make from them. They didn't take the proper time to see that their fighters had a proper training, that they lived comfortably, or ate well, or had some pocket change. Roxborough was talking about Black Power before it became popular. Roxborough knew a Chicago area boxing promoter named Julian Black who already had a stable of mediocre boxers against which Louis could hone his craft, this time in the heavyweight division. After becoming part of the management team, Black hired fellow Chicago native Jack . Louis' initial professional fights were all located in the Chicago area, his professional debut coming on July 4, 1. Jack Kracken in the Bacon Casino on Chicago's south side. Louis earned $5. 9 for knocking out Kracken in the first round. Louis won all twelve of his professional fights that year, ten by way of knockout. In September 1. 93. Detroit- area . Roxborough refused and continued advancing Louis's career with bouts against heavyweight contenders Art Sykes and Stanley Poreda. When training for a fight against Lee Ramage, Louis noticed a young female secretary for the black newspaper at the gym. After Ramage was defeated, the secretary, Marva Trotter, was invited to the celebration party at Chicago's Grand Hotel. Trotter later became Louis's first wife in 1. During this time, Louis also met Truman Gibson, the man who would become his personal lawyer. As a young associate at a law firm hired by Julian Black, Gibson was charged with personally entertaining Louis during the pendency of business deals. Title contention. While professional boxing was not officially segregated, many white Americans had become wary of the prospect of another black champion in the wake of Jack Johnson's highly unpopular (among whites) . During an era of severe anti- black repression, Jack Johnson's unrepentant masculinity and marriage to a white woman engendered an enormous backlash that greatly limited opportunities of black fighters in the heavyweight division; Louis and his handlers would counter the legacy of Johnson by emphasizing the Brown Bomber's modesty and sportsmanship. In 1. 93. 5, boxing promoter Mike Jacobs sought out Louis' handlers. After Louis' narrow defeat of Natie Brown on March 2. Jacobs and the Louis team met at the Frog Club, a black nightclub, and negotiated a three- year exclusive boxing promotion deal. Mindful of the tremendous public backlash Johnson had suffered for his unapologetic attitude and flamboyant lifestyle, they drafted . These included: Never have his picture taken with a white woman. Never gloat over a fallen opponent. Never engage in fixed fights. Live and fight clean. The bout that helped put him in the media spotlight occurred on June 2. Louis knocked out 6'6. Foreshadowing the Louis- Schmeling rivalry to come, the Carnera bout featured a political dimension. Louis' victory over Carnera, who symbolized Benito Mussolini's regime in the popular eye, was seen as a victory for the international community, particularly among African Americans, who were sympathetic to Ethiopia, which was attempting to maintain its independence by fending off an invasion by fascist Italy. Since the retirement of Jack Dempsey in 1. Just as Dempsey led the sport out of the doldrums.. Louis leading the boxing game out of a slump. In September 1. 93. Louis' fight with the former title holder Max Baer, Washington Post sportswriter Shirley Povich wrote about some Americans' hopes for the white contender; . Unknowingly, Baer suffered from a unique disadvantage in the fight; earlier that evening, Louis had married Marva Trotter at a friend's apartment and was eager to end the fight in order to consummate the relationship. Schmeling, 1. 93. By this time, Louis was ranked as the No. Although a former champion, Schmeling was not considered a threat to Louis, then with an undefeated professional record of 2. Schmeling was also 3. Louis bout and allegedly past his prime. Schmeling had thoroughly studied Louis's style and believed he had found a weakness. Braddock, who had unexpectedly defeated Max Baer for the Heavyweight title the previous June. Madison Square Garden (MSG) had a contract with Braddock for the title defense and also sought a Braddock- Schmeling title bout. But Jacobs and Braddock's manager Joe Gould had been planning a Braddock- Louis matchup for months. Louis did his part by knocking out former champion Jack Sharkey on August 1. Meanwhile, Gould trumped up anti- Nazi sentiment against Schmeling. A federal court in Newark, New Jersey eventually ruled that Braddock's contractual obligation to stage his title defense at MSG was unenforceable for lack of mutual consideration. On the night of the fight, June 2. Braddock was able to knock Louis down in round one, but afterward could accomplish little. After inflicting constant punishment, Louis defeated Braddock in round eight, knocking him out cold with a strong right hand that bust James' teeth through his gum shield and lip and paralyzed him to the ground for a few minutes. It was the first and only time that Braddock was knocked out (the one other stoppage of Braddock's career was a TKO on a cut). Louis's ascent to the World Heavyweight Championship was complete. Louis's victory was a seminal moment in African American history. Thousands of African Americans stayed up all night across the country in celebration. No one else in the United States has ever had such an effect on Negro emotions. I marched and cheered and yelled and cried, too. Shortly after winning the title, he was quoted as saying, . The offer was too lucrative for Farr to turn down. The bout was closely contested and went the entire 1. Louis being unable to knock Farr down. Referee Arthur Donovan was even seen shaking Farr's hand after the bout, in apparent congratulation. The crowd of 5. 0,0. Farr had not been knocked out or even knocked down, booed the decision. It seems the crowd believed that referee Arthur Donovan, Sr. Seven years later, in his published account of the fight, Donovan spoke of the . He wrote: As Tommy walked back to his corner after shaking Louis' hand, I followed him and seized his glove. Then I dropped his hand like a red- hot coal! He had started to raise his arm. He thought I had given him the fight and the world championship! I literally ran away, shaking my head and shouting. That's the last time my emotions will get the better of me in a prize fight! There was much booing at the announced result, but, as I say it, it was all emotional. I gave Tommy two rounds and one even. Schmeling's victory over an African American was touted by Nazi officials as proof of their doctrine of Aryan superiority. When the rematch was scheduled, Louis retreated to his boxing camp in New Jersey and trained incessantly for the fight. A few weeks before the bout, Louis visited the White House, where President Franklin D. I had my own personal reasons and the whole damned country was depending on me. Schmeling's hotel was picketed by anti- Nazi protesters in the days before the fight. The fight was held in Yankee Stadium before a crowd of 7. It was broadcast by radio to millions of listeners throughout the world, with radio announcers reporting on the fight in English, German, Spanish, and Portuguese. Before the bout, Schmeling weighed in at 1. Louis weighed in at 1. Schmeling was knocked down three times and only managed to throw two punches in the entire bout. On the third knockdown, Schmeling's trainer threw in the towel and referee Arthur Donovan stopped the fight.
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