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the-history-of-fighting · 11 months

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Ali!

#Muhammad Ali #boxing #combat sports #boxing history

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totallyhussein-blog · 2 months

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Be Inspired by Victor Perez

Victor Perez was a Tunisian Jewish boxer, who became the World Flyweight Champion in 1931 and 1932, fighting under his ring name Young Perez.

Perez was arrested in Paris in 1943 by the Milice Francaise, a French collaborationist paramilitary force of the Vichy Regime. He was detained in the Drancy internment camp before being transported to the Auschwitz Concentration Camp.

Victor “Young” Perez died on the death march on January 22, 1945; probably he was shot because of an attempted escape or died of complete exhaustion. He was 33 years old.

The Institut National des Sports in Paris named its boxing arena after Victor Perez and put up a plaque in his memory. Victor Perez was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1986.

#manchester #iraq #iraqi #london #uk #baghdad #liverpool #scotland #usa #france #boxing history #boxing #jewish history #jewish culture

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blackjewels5 · 1 year

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AMERIKA IN BLACK@AmerikaInBlack: "Harlem, Manhattan (1935). Boxer Joe Louis, 21, with his new wife, stenographer Marva Trotter, 19, strolling through the neighborhood. The night before, he married Marva in an Edgecombe Avenue apartment, and won a fight against Max Baer at Yankee Stadium."

#joe louis #1935 #boxing history #blackhistory

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allurlsaregone-blog · 1 year

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Archibald Lee Wright, Archie Moore, was the longest reigning World Light Heavyweight Champion of all time (December 1952 – May 1962). As of December 2020, BoxRec ranks Moore as the third greatest pound-for-pound boxer of all time.

#Archie Moore #boxing #great boxers #boxing history

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if-you-fan-a-fire · 10 months

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"Jack Sharkey, heavyweight boxing champion, and Joe Savoldi, heavy- weight mat title holder, selected the same site for their training quarters - Orangeburg, N.Y. - and staged a little get-together for an exchange of ideas. Above Savoldi, at left, is showing Sharkey how to stop those Carnera right-hand punches when the big fight comes off, June 29." - from the Kingston Whig-Standard. June 20, 1933. Page 8.

#orangeburg ny #primo carnera #world heavyweight champion #heavyweight boxing #boxing #boxing match #boxer #jack sharkey #the great depression #boxing history

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historysisco · 2 years

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On This Day in June 22, 1938: Heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis knocked out Max Schmeling of Germany in the first round of their rematch in New York City's Yankee Stadium.

This match followed the first fight between heavyweights a little over two years earlier at Yankee Stadium on June 19, 1936. In that fight, Louis was heavily favored over Schmeling. Schmeling stunned the world by taking the fights to 12-rounds, knocking out the champ and giving Louis his first professional defeat. Two years later, Louis showed the world the boxer that he was.

The fight was quick in front of a crowd of over 70,000. Louis demolished Schmeling in the first round to reclaim the Heavyweight title. Louis would embark on a record 25 consecutive title defenses.

The fight had an added tension due to the rise of Nazi Germany and the rumbling of the eventual World War. Louis had many a Southern white person rooting for him to beat the German fighter. Which would have been first for any black athlete in the United States at the time. On the flip side, Schmeling had the pressure of showing the world what German superiority was even though he wasn't a member of the Nazi Party.

After World War Two (where both men served) Louis and Schmeling would become lifelong friends.

#Joe Louis #Max Schmeling #Sports History #Boxing History #World History #History #Histoire #Historia #Geschichte #HistorySisco

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of-fear-and-love · 9 days

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Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2004), with narration from Keith David

#documentary #keith david #jack johnson #unforgivable blackness: the rise and fall of jack johnson #ken burns #2004 #tw racism #lynching mention #late 19th century #1900s #1910s #black history #history of sports #sports history #boxing history #american history #video

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tonyrossmcmahon · 9 months

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Two Black Boxers born into Slavery!

Two black American boxers born into slavery became stars in early 19th century England but were brought down by endemic racism as Tony McMahon discovers

Two black men, born as slaves in north America, went on to become high-profile boxers and celebrities in Georgian England winning big cash prizes. But the fights were racially charged despite their popularity. And both men would die penniless. These are the forgotten black boxers who struggled but ultimately failed to become world champions. It’s the heart wrenching story of how one of them, Tom…

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#bare knuckle boxing #Bill Richmond #boxing Bridgerton #boxing documentary #boxing history #boxing news #boxing racism #Errol Christie #Fives Court #Leicester Square #Panton Street #Tom Cribb #Tom Molineaux #Tony McMahon #Trafalgar Square

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thetemplarknight · 9 months

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Two Black Boxers born into Slavery!

Two black American boxers born into slavery became stars in early 19th century England but were brought down by endemic racism as Tony McMahon discovers

Two black men, born as slaves in north America, went on to become high-profile boxers and celebrities in Georgian England winning big cash prizes. But the fights were racially charged despite their popularity. And both men would die penniless. These are the forgotten black boxers who struggled but ultimately failed to become world champions. It’s the heart wrenching story of how one of them, Tom…

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#bare knuckle boxing #Bill Richmond #boxing Bridgerton #boxing documentary #boxing history #boxing news #boxing racism #Errol Christie #Fives Court #Leicester Square #Panton Street #Tom Cribb #Tom Molineaux #Tony McMahon #Trafalgar Square

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the-history-of-fighting · 10 months

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Top: Muhammad Ali & Zbigniew Pietrzykowski of Poland after Ali won their bout in the 1960 Olympic finals in Rome in the light heavyweight division.

Bottom: The two are collecting their medals along with Giulio Saraudi (Italy) and Anthony Madigan (Australia) who both came joint third.

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#boxing #muhammad ali #olympics #boxing history

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totallyhussein-blog · 2 months

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Be Inspired by Salamo Arouch

Salamo Arouch was the Middleweight Champion of Greece, the All-Balkans Middleweight Champion and survivor of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp.

A Greek-Jewish boxer, Arouch came from a family of fishermen. Salamo, his brother Avram, and his father, also worked as stevedores.

By 1939, Salamo had a 24-0 (24 knockouts) record with a traditional style of boxing: jabbing and crossing. He became known in Greece as "The Ballet Dancer" due to his "fancy footwork."

#Salamo Arouch #boxing #boxing history #greece #public education #manchester #uk #london #liverpool #scotland #world history #greek history #ww2 history #jewish history #european history #europe

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blackjewels5 · 2 years

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The story of this photo of Muhammad Ali training underwater is told by the photographer and journalist who took the photo 📸 “It appeared one day that he was in the pool and had the body of a Greek god, he went underwater and adopted the perfect boxer pose and started dropping his hands and started throwing punches underwater and I asked him why you do that, and an old boxer told me that if you box in the water you get a lot of exercise and he started laughing and then I winked and said in my mind oh my God, he invented it, he invented this kind of thing, he would have come up with an idea and put it into action, but the important thing That day is that I was there to take pictures of him and I took some great pictures of him."

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#muhammad ali #boxing history #boxingunderwater #blackhistory #champion for life

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realtime1960s · 10 months

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July 5, 1963 - Cassius Clay responds to a report that he had been seen wearing a Black Muslim star-and-crescent membership pin and had said the Black Muslim movement “is the sweetest thing next to God.” More here: https://tinyurl.com/4u2tnxe4

#boxing #boxing history #muhammad ali

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markmohamed · 1 year

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