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Boxing History Last Bareknuckle Prizefight in 1889

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About the last bareknuckle prizefight in 1889 between John Sullivan and Jake Kilrain, history of the fight.

1889: THE LAST BAREKNUCKLE PRIZEFIGHT

Everyone knew that no man could stand up to John L. Sullivan and swap punches with him. A devastating 2-handed hitter, Sullivan had toured the country taking on all comers and had offered $1,000 to anyone who could stay 4 rounds. Drunk or sober, he had flattened 59 men in a row. Only a few were able to survive the 1st round, none the 4th. His only weakness was his fondness for the bottle--he used to drink bourbon out of steins--and for this reason his perfectly trained opponent, Jake Kilrain of Baltimore, was given an even chance to outlast him in a finish fight.

Kilrain was not a slugger but he could go distance and he was a good wrestler, which was useful in bareknuckle fighting, where a fall could be almost as punishing as a knockdown blow. "Sullivan was no wrestler," said the New York World the day of the fight (July 8, 1889) and added with journalistic candor unknown today: "According to the history of all such drunkards as he, his legs ought to fail him after 20 minutes of fighting."

When the men came to scratch at 10 A.M. at Richburg, Miss., before a crowd of 3,000 fans, most of whom had come by train from New Orleans to the secret ring site (bare fist fighting was illegal in all 38 States), the thermometer registered 100deg in the shade. It was a test between 2 champions for $10,000 a side, winner take all. Sullivan, resplendent in green breeches and flesh-colored stockings, was champion by popular acclaim; Kilrain, by decree of Richard K. Fox, publisher of the Police Gazette, who ignored Sullivan's claim and awarded the Gazette's championship belt to his opponent. "I would not put Fox's belt around the neck of a bulldog," snorted the great John L.

From the start Kilrain pursued his battle plan by avoiding all toe-to-toe slugging and by sidestepping the rushes of the ever-advancing Sullivan. These tactics drove Sullivan into a fury. "Why don't you fight? You're supposed to be the champ, ain't you?" bawled Sullivan in the 4th round, which lasted over 15 minutes. (Under the rules a round ended only when a man went down and could, therefore, last a few seconds or several minutes.) In the 7th round, as the men clinched, Kilrain hooked to the head and brought a flow of blood from John L.'s ear. "First blood, Kilrain," announced referee John Fitzpatrick and there was an exchange of bills among the sports. (Betting was always brisk on 1st blood and 1st knockdown.) Sullivan scored the 1st clean knockdown in the next round. As the fight wore on, both men were soaked in blood, their backs scorched crimson by the burning sun. There was no decisive turning point in the battle but after the 30th round it was evident that Sullivan was getting to his man. Jake was tiring, not Sullivan, who was now scoring all the knockdowns and most of the falls. But Kilrain kept on coming to scratch round after round although his eyes were glassy and his head rolled loosely on his shoulders as if his neck were broken. In the 75th round a doctor said to Kilrain's seconds, "If you keep sending him out there, he'll die." That was enough. They tossed in the sponge and the fight was over.

The last bareknuckle fight in ring history had lasted 2 hours and 16 minutes. A new era of padded gloves and 3-minute rounds under the modern Queensberry rules soon replaced the old barefisted brawlers. Sullivan lost his crown to Jim Corbett in a glove fight 3 years later. As for Kilrain, who was so near death at the end of the fight, he lived to be a pallbearer at Sullivan's funeral in 1918 and did not die until 1937 when he was 78.
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Passed Away On This Day

1996- Luis Rodriguez (born in Camaguey, Cuba March 14, 1937 – July 8, 1996)
Rodriguez was a professional boxing champion. Known as "El Feo," Rodriguez began his career in pre-Castro Havana. In Cuba, Rodriguez twice defeated the ill-fated future welterweight champion Benny Kid Paret.
After the Cuban Revolution, Rodríguez campaigned in the United States. Fighting out of Miami, Rodriguez decisioned top welterweights Virgil Akins, Isaac Logart, Rudell Stitch and Garnet "Sugar" Hart.
He was unbeaten in 36 fights before losing a split decision to Emile Griffith in a 1960 non-title fight. In 1963, Rodriguez and Griffith fought twice for the World Welterweight Championship. Rodriguez defeated Griffith by a unanimous decision to win the title, but Griffith regained it three months later with a split decision. Their fourth and final meeting came in 1964, with Griffith retaining the welterweight title with a split decision.
In November 1969, Rodriguez challenged Nino Benvenuti in Rome, Italy, for the World Middleweight Championship. Rodriguez was outslicking Benvenuti over the course of the fight but was suddenly knocked out by way of an outstanding left hook in the eleventh round, laying down on the floor for 5 minutes.
Rodriguez retired in 1972



1923 - Battling Siki KO 2 Marcel Nilles in France https://uploadir.com/u/a1ystb78



1959- Jose Becerra KO 8 Alphonse Halimi, Los Angeles. Wins world bantamweight title. https://uploadir.com/u/igattgnh



1978- Samuel Serrano KO 9 Oh Young Ho, Hato Rey, PR. Retains WBA Junior Lightweight title.

1979- Alexis Arguello KO 11 Rafael Limon, NYC. Retains WBC Super Featherweight title. https://uploadir.com/u/1wiat9vd



1984- Seung In Suh KO 4 Cleo Garcia, Seoul. Retains IBF Junior Featherweight title. https://s7.gifyu.com/images/suh31e248935874d9d4.gif



1988- Donald Curry KO 9 Gianfranco Rosi, San Remo, Italy. Wins WBC Super Welterweight title. https://uploadir.com/u/hga7cpw5



1989- John Mugabi KO 1 Rene Jacquot, Cergy-Pointoise, France. Wins WBC Super Welterweight title. https://uploadir.com/u/dllq5m6l



1990- Riddick Bowe TKO 3 Art Tucker in Atlantic City https://www.megapict.com/up/it2F9ldCWv.gif
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1990- Aaron Davis KO 9 Mark Breland, Reno. Wins WBA Welterweight title. https://uploadir.com/u/tq80tak5



1990- Jorge Paez D 12 Troy Dorsey, Las Vegas. Retains IBF Featherweight title.



1995- Joe Calzaghe TKO 4 Tyrone Jackson in UK https://uploadir.com/u/hegt6g20



1996: Former welterweight champion Luis Rodriguez, 59, dies in Miami Beach. He had undergone kidney dialysis for the past 2-years.

2000- Former Lightweight Champion Livingstone Bramble, 39, is suspended by the Pennsylvania State Athletic Commission for failing a prefight drug test.

2006- Cory Spinks W 12 Roman Karmazin, St. Louis, MO. Wins IBF Junior Middleweight Title. Referee: Mark Nelson - Judge: Jerry Griffin 114-114 - Judge: Melvina Lathan 115-113 - Judge: Manfred Küchler 115-113.






Born On This Day

1963- Fredia “The Cheetah” Gibbs (born Chester, Pennsylvania)
a.k.a. “The Most Dangerous Woman in the World” is a Sports Icon and Muay Thai kickboxing legend. Gibbs is a 3 Time World Champion in Kickboxing and the first African American female to hold the world kickboxing championship for the International Sport Karate Association. She is known for having a very balanced attack as a kick-boxer that includes a ferocious overhand right, a mighty left, and lighting quick feet.
Fredia Gibbs was born just south of Philadelphia in a tough part of Chester, Pennsylvania. Growing up in the Fairground Community was tough for Gibbs who was constantly being messed with by neighborhood kids and classmates. Since her mother taught her not to fight back, Gibbs frequently found herself running from neighborhood bullies. When she wasn’t running from bullies, the All American & Most Valuable Player Gibbs was busy excelling in basketball and track at her high school, so it’s only appropriate that she earned the nickname “The Cheetah.”
After high school, Gibbs attended Temple University in Philadelphia where she was the recipient of two athletic scholarships for her excellence in both basketball and track. She later attended Cabrini College on a basketball scholarship focusing on her grades and her game. The basketball phenomenon was invited to the United States Olympic Training Center located in Colorado Springs to try out for the women's USA Olympic Basketball Team where she was cut during the second tryouts. Gibbs was also selected Kodak All American for three consecutive years for basketball at Cabrini College where she majored in Marketing. She later went on to play professional basketball in Germany, averaging almost 30 points, 15 rebounds & 10 assist a season. Gibbs is showcased on www.hoopedia.nba.com under Chester High School. Her hometown recently inducted her into Chester High School's “Basketball Hall of Fame" and named their track team after Gibbs now called "Chester Cheetah's."
[edit] Muay Thai Kickboxing career
A newspaper clipping about First World Boxing Champions from the Los Angeles Sentinel (February 13, 1995).
Fredia Gibbs showing off a high kick with her left.
In 1990, after moving to North Hollywood, California, “The Cheetah” adopted kickboxing as her sport under the instructions of Rubin Urquidez, David Krapes & Bangkok’s Master Sur Puk & Saekson Janjira of Muay Thai Academy of North Hollywood. Her Muay Thai manager was Felice Levair & her publicist was William Peele of Los Angeles, Ca. The move to kickboxing was a natural one for Gibbs who had first starting kicking at the age of 11 (and received her black belt at the age of 23) while studying martial arts under the instruction of Master Rick Berri, Nick Nichols, and her Uncle William Groce of Quiet Storm Karate Club in Chester, Pennsylvania. Additionally, Gibbs won her first World Tae Kwon Do Championship Tournament in St. Petersburg, FL, beating the 2 time returning champion from Puerto Rico.
It didn’t take long for Gibbs to burst into the kickboxing world as a fierce contender and great female warrior. She amassed a kickboxing record of 16-0-1 with 15 KO’s. Gibbs’ only draw came from an exhibition fight with a male. Her greatest accomplishment as a professional kickboxer came when she shocked the European circuit by winning the ISKA World Championship with a knockout during her fight with the heavily favored Valerie Henin in "The Battle of the Masters" PPV show. The defeat in April 1994 made Gibbs the first African American female to hold the world kickboxing championship for the International Sport Karate Association. Although Henin had previously been known as “the most dangerous woman in the world’ in the European kickboxing circles, Gibbs took claim to the name.
After her kickboxing career, Gibbs moved on to the world of professional boxing achieving a record of 9-2-1 (2 K0). She made her debut in January 1997 by winning in a decision over Maria Fortaleza Recinos. In her next fight, Gibbs went on to beat Daniele Doobenen by outscoring her in a four round fight. Later that year she managed to stop two of her opponents, Gail Grandchamp and Annaliese Kolan, by relying on her strength, aggressiveness, and consistency.
Gibbs got her first shot at a boxing title March 21, 1998. Her boxing coaches were Randy Shields and then Terry Claybon, Hollywoods' Celebrity Boxing & Acting Coach. Despite opening a cut over her opponent Leah Mellinger’s left eye, Gibbs was defeated for the first time in her career. Fortunately, the defeat wasn’t enough to stop Gibbs; she fought back by moving on to win her next two fights against Olivia Gerula and Hannah Fox, both by a six round unanimous decision.
After taking a brief break from boxing, “The Cheetah” returned to the ring June 8, 2001 for a fight against Susan Howard at the Hollywood Park Casino. After winning the four round fight in a unanimous decision, Gibbs proved she was still a great female warrior.
On November 16, 2001 Gibbs went on to battle it out with Sumya Anani, IFBA Intercontinental Junior Welterweight and IBA Lightweight champion who had previously beaten Christy Martin. The exciting 10 round fight ended in a majority draw, leaving both fighters with their first draw and the WIBA World title vacant.
Gibbs' next fight against Kanicia "Queen Bee" Eley put her on the same card as Laila Ali in the hometown of Ali's father Muhammed Ali. After fighting four rounds against Kanicia Eley, Gibbs was declared the winner. She then decided to go up against Sumya Anani again, less than two years after their original match. Unfortunately, the rematch had a disappointing end for Gibbs who injured her right hand in the first round leaving Anani to win by TKO. Also for the past 7 years Gibbs has been the sparring partner, trainer & corner person for Mia St. John.
Fredia “The Cheetah” Gibbs works as a Coach & Director at a gym in San Diego. It specializes in Muay Thai Kickboxing, Boxing, and Jiu-jitsu. It's a fun and tough environment that appeals to people of all fitness levels from the beginner to the advanced competitor. Fredia believes that working out is a life changing experience and takes pride in motivating people who seek training as an alternate to the “traditional gym.” Gibbs continues to train jiu-jitsu and aspires to move on to MMA fighting.
In addition to excelling as a professional athlete, Gibbs has also had success as an actress and a sports model for Sebastian International Sports Department. She has been featured in many magazines, including Jet, Upscale, KO Boxing, Sports Illustrated for Women, and Black Belt Magazine.

* In 2001, Gibbs played in-the-ring villain Tanya “Terminator” Tessario in the film Knockout (made by Hollywood’s DMG Productions).
* In 1996, Gibbs appeared as herself on an episode of “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.” In the episode (titled Boxing Helena), Will is the victim of ridicule after being KO’d by a girl at a health club

1966- Jesse James Leija (born James Leija in San Antonio, Texas)
Leija is a professional boxer from Texas.
Leija had an amateur career that spanned three years, going 23-5 during this time. He won the San Antonio Golden Gloves in 1988. Later that year he lost in the first rounds of the Olympic Trials to Kelcie Banks.
Jesse James Leija began his professional boxing career on October 2, 1988, beating Oscar Davis by knockout in round one, in Leija's native San Antonio. When he turned professional he took the name "Jesse James" in honor of his father, Jesse Leija, who trained him.
On January 1, 1989, he defeated Rudy Carmona AKA. (Rudy The Jet Carmona) by a decision in four at the Trump Plaza hotel in New Jersey. This marked Leija's debut outside Texas. On his fourth fight, Leija beat Manuel Gomez in San Antonio by decision in four, on April 10.
During the early 1990s, Leija won his first fifteen fights, ten by knockout. His first blemish came on October 8, 1990, when he and Rudy Carmona fought to a ten round draw in San Antonio, TX.
Leija won his next three bouts, and then, he had an upgrade in opposition quality when he met the experienced Miguel Arrozal, on May 31, 1991. He beat Arrozal by an eighth-round disqualification. On October 18, he met Steve McCrory, the former WBA bantamweight champion, in Houston, beating McCrory by a ten-round decision.
Leija got his first championship try on the fight that proceeded his win over McCrory. On March 3, 1992. He met Jose Luis Martinez for the North American Boxing Federation bantamweight championship. This fight was held in San Antonio, and it resulted in a nine-round technical draw decision.
Leija proceeded to win three bouts, two of them against former world champions. Having defeated Jesus Poll by a decision in twelve rounds and Troy Dorsey by a knockout in six, he was matched, on March 23, 1993, with Louie Espinoza, a former two-time world featherweight champion. Leija won this fight by a twelve round decision, and with this, the NABF title and the right to challenge for the world title for the first time.
On September 10, 1993, Leija participated at one of the Alamodome's first ever events, when he challenged Azumah Nelson for the WBC super featherweight title. After twelve rounds, Nelson had been announced as the winner by a split decision, only to find out twenty minutes later that a judge had miscalculated his scoring card, and the fight was really a draw.
On May 7, he got a rematch with Nelson. Leija became the WBC super featherweight champion when he defeated Nelson by a twelve-round unanimous decision in Las Vegas.
On September 17, he defended his title against Gabriel Ruelas, once again, in Las Vegas. Leija lost his world title when he lost to Ruelas by a twelve-round unanimous decision.
Leija rebounded with two wins, including one over Jeff Mayweather, and then, on December 15, 1995, he received a chance at becoming world champion for the second time, when he challenged Oscar De La Hoya for De La Hoya's WBO lightweight title, at Madison Square Garden. He lost by second-round knockout.
On June 1, 1996, Leija challenged Nelson, who had regained the WBC super featherweight title. Leija lost by a tech. knockout in six.
After a string of wins against relatively insignificant competition, Leija won the NABF lightweight title, defeating Joel Perez by a decision in twelve rounds on January 20, 1998.
After a second round knockout victory over Troy Crain, Leija fought Nelson for the fourth time. In what was Nelson's final career bout, Leija defeated Nelson by a twelve-round unanimous decision on July 11, 1998.
On November 14, Leija had a shot at the WBC lightweight title when he faced Shane Mosley. Leija was dropped in rounds six, eight and nine before the fight was stopped, with Mosley retaining the world title by a ninth-round knockout win.
Leija's next significant bout came on August 5, 2000, when he fought Juan Lazcano. Although no world championship was involved in this bout, it created general interest among Hispanic boxing fans, as Lazcano, nicknamed "The Hispanic Causing Panic," had become a popular boxer among Latinos. Leija lost an unpopular dec. in a ten-round split decision (scores of 94-96, 93-97 and a favorable 96-94) to Lazcano in Uncasville, Connecticut.
Next followed another HBO televised fight, when Leija fought Ivan Robinson, who had twice beaten Arturo Gatti, on November 11 at Las Vegas. Leija beat Robinson by a ten-round unanimous decision.
After a victory over Fred Ladd, Leija faced Hector Camacho Jr. in Long Island, July 7, 2001. This would prove to be a very controversial fight: after an accidental headbutt, Camacho Jr. was injured and he could not fight on. Camacho Jr. was initially announced as the winner by a technical decision, but the Leija team formally protested the result with the New York State Athletic Commission. The athletic commission decided to declare the fight a five-round no contest.
Having beaten Arturo Gatti, Micky Ward was being considered for a fight with WBC, WBA and IBF world light welterweight champion Kostya Tszyu. On January 5, 2002, Leija and Ward faced off at San Antonio. Once again, the fight was stopped as a consequence of a headbutt, but this time, it was Leija who was injured. Leija won the fight by a five-round technical decision, and became the number-one challenger to Tszyu.
Leija then proceeded to move to Australia for six months, to get acquainted with the country and its climate before his challenge of Tszyu, scheduled for January 19, 2003. Tszyu retained the title when he beat Leija by a six-round knockout.
After three wins, Leija faced young prospect Francisco Bojado. Leija and Bojado fought on July 24, 2004, in Atlantic City. Leija produced what some viewed as a minor upset by beating his much younger rival by a ten-round split decision.
On January 29, 2005, Leija fought Arturo Gatti for Gatti's interim WBC light welterweight title. Fighting once again in Atlantic City, Leija lost to Gatti by a fifth-round knockout. Leija retired after the loss.
Leija's record consists of 47 wins, 7 losses, 2 draws and 1 no contest in 57 fights, with 19 knockouts wins.
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Jorge Eliecer Julio won a 12 round MD over Ricardo Vargas to retain the WBA Bantamweight Title.

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A little bit more about Luis Rodriguez (see above) who passed away 14 years ago.

He had 121 professional fights of which he won 107, lost 13, and had won ruled a No Contest. 49 of his wins came by knockout.

He was inducted posthumously into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1997. He was also inducted into the Florida Boxing Hall of Fame, having fought out of Miami after Professional boxing was banned in his native Cuba.

I met him at the Ali-Folley fight at the old Madison Square Garden in March of 1967. I was surprised he was sitting in the nosebleed section, especially since his trainer was Angelo Dundee, but he was with a group of friends. I was glad I had read a one line report in the previous day's Daily News and was able to congratulate him on his win over Bennie Briscoe two nights earlier.

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