1/9. History of the Heavyweight Championship

[LelandnSonya4eva]

Everybodys saying 'there goes my grandaddy' i guess i better jump on the bandwagon lol Jack Johnson is my uncle!!!!!

[LelandnSonya4eva]

JOE LOUIS IS THE GREATEST OF ALLLLL TIIIIMESSS OF ALLLLL TIMMMMEEESSS

[snoop11080]

i really think that jack johnson was the first fighter that would still be good in modern times

[Soulblackman]

@snoop11080 Agreed.

[jayr122001]

fighting without gloves 

[dominik13579]

they don't make chins like those any more

[truebeliever786]

John L. Sullivan, Jim Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons, Jim Jeffries, Marvin Heart, Tommy Burns, JACK JOHNSON, Jess Willard, JACK DEMPSEY, GENE TUNNEY, Max Schmeling, Jack Sharkey, Primo Carnera, Max Baer, James Braddock, JOE LOUIS, Ezzard Charles, Jersey Joe Walcott, ROCKY MARCIANO, Floyd Patterson, Ingemar Johansson, Floyd Patterson SONNY LISTON, MUHAMMAD ALI, SMOKIN' JOE FRAZIER, GEORGE FOREMAN, MUHAMMAD ALI, Leon Spinks, MUHAMMAD ALI, LARRY HOLMES, Michael Spinks, MIKE TYSON etc.............

[edgarvolkov]

@truebeliever786 ....Evander Hollyfeild, Lennox Lewis, Vitaly Klitschko, Wladimir Klitschko

[truebeliever786]

@edgarvolkov You missed 'James Buster Douglas', 'Riddick Bowe', 'Michael Moorer' and 'George Foreman' =]

[edgarvolkov]

@edgarvolkov Yep.. now we've got the full list seems like.. 

[MrBumboclart]

Imagine John L Sullivan fighting and trained in today's boxing? If he could box bare-knuckle and wrestle 75 rounds were rules were laxed and dirty boxing was common imagine him fighting 10 and 12 rounds in golves? Can anyone say - BEAST!

[Pihasanddunes1]

That Burns - Squires fight was horrific. More wrestling than boxing. Fantastic footage of Fitz - Corbett fight though, historic stuff.

[sychly]

think about what we are seeing here! these are some of the first moving images of a human. not a painting, a still picture, a drawing in the newspaper. these are people moving and their images seen by others. i know i'm high, but like.......that has to mean something.

[nataschmidtt]

75 round with bare hand boxing ..omg.!!

[44phil1]

Prior to the introduction of the Queensberry Rules, boxing was with bare fists. A round ended when a man was knocked down, or thrown. He was then given thirty seconds to recover and a further eight seconds to come up to scratch, i.e. return to the centre of the ring where a line was drawn.

The Queensberry rules standardised rounds to three minutes and a minute rest. Although knock outs were recognised there was no official points system and the winner was often the one named by the press.

[rosklito]

10:26 sucker punch in the crowd lol

[abudujana13]

THANX HKSCOT

[muclesmarinara]

John L Sullivan was a bad motherfucker!!!

[diablo367]

If your shocked by round 75 you need to learn your boxing history, simple as

[hatemail11]

Hey great site for these fights and much much more.

w w w . b o x i n g c a r e e r d v d s. c o m

[pdecarlo]

Don't be shocked by the Round 75. These fighters threw only a few punches a round, and dodged a lot of them.

[403766]

@pdecarlo

Come on in all fairness they had no gloves so punches would be far more devastating even a fairly unactive fight should not go to bloody round 75 anyone today would collapse long before them 2 hours and 16 minutes is just insane.

[ApeDeng]

@403766

Not true.

Contrary to what one might believe, punches are far more devastating WITH gloves. A human skull is so hard, that punching it with your bare fists will be very damaging to your hand. Therefore - in the old days, fighters punched more to the body, and with less force to the head, and were often able to go many rounds.

The boxing glove primarily protects the puncher's HAND, not the head of the one being punched, and can thus generate a lot more concussive power than before.

[andrewr62]

@pdecarlo Oh really. Read the newspaper accounts of the Sullivan vs Kilrain bout. Many exchanges are described per round. Under London Prize rules throws were also allowed, kind of like an ancient MMA fight.

I round was not over until a knock down or throw down of some kind occured.

[AmericanNohbuddy]

Their mustaches actually did the fighting.

[sweetcurmudgeon]

Fitzsimmon's took Corbet's title with a left hook to the liver. He called it his "solar plexus punch" but it was the same blow that Bernard Hopkins used to kayo Oscar De La Hoya. When the blood is forced out of the liver, it's all over.

[killa9599]

Jake Kilrain was my great grandfather i was named after him!

[IdrOpBaLLZ]

wow.. thats my grand dad. James J. Corbett

[ExperTiinViolence]

last time I checked. White men ARE the true forefathers of boxing!

[TricycleTim]

@ExperTiinViolence That's becaseu there was a colour bar. Black fighters were not allowed to fight for the world heavyweight title, until Jack Johnson did so, some years after the likes of Corbett, Sullivan, etc.

[lefthook29]

@ExperTiinViolence actually moron, boxing was around at the time of the egyptian empire. So are you saying egyptians are white? some ppl are so ignorant it's actually pretty funny. To tell you the truth, I'm almost positive you've never even been in a boxing ring in your life

[MultiSpread]

America at its industrial greatest. Before it started to become the police state its becoming.

[ROCKYMARCIANOXX0]

Cheers for posting mate, love vids like these.

[talibanu509]

I hate the fact that they didn't state that when Jeffries retiered Jack Johnson,who was milles ahead of him was deafiting every oponent and that his retirement was shameful,eventualy he deafeted him in 1910,very very very easily and with a huge smile on his face

[andrewr62]

@talibanu509 They also didn't mention that Johnson

had lost to likes of Marvin Hart and was Ko'd by over the

hill Joe Choynski.  The Jeffries v Johnson fight my have

been a very differnt story had it happened in 1905,

[pillsburydoughboy47]

the evolution of the sport my ass; boxing hasn't really changed that much at all.

these old time boxing matches barely look different from modern bouts, and truly, boxing was at its peak during the golden age.

[junkieland]

reckon you'd get a few people, me being one of them disputing this call d/boy, but hey shout it out....thaz what it's all about ..probably then also....having just come of some fights of the 60's where the imagery is much better and the evolution is 'intensely visible'....what i think hasn't evolved is the wisdom of marquis queensbury rules which allowed a sport to resonate into the future ....

[junkieland]

resonate should read reverberate...

[JSPUFC]

Round 75???? HOLY SHIT!!!! George Foreman in his prime would probably be dead in round 20!

[jimmywrangles]

Foerman would have killed them both in the first round.

[sugarfrankjr]

LOL!!!!!!!

[zyphoid666]

"Hit'im in the slats Bobby"!!

[stargate121]

Round 75???!!!!

[pplafritz1]

Yuuup...

Shit was crazy back thenlol

[dahoss65]

I dont know where some of these documentaries get their info from, but according to Boxrec DOT c o m, billy squires wasnt 37-0(37ko) coming into this fight. Infact Boxrec has him listed at 20-11(10ko) for his whole career.

[dahoss65]

LOL....now that I think about it, I bet I know what they did. They told the betting public that this australian fellow was 37-0 with 37 ko's so they'd bet all their money on him. Instead he was a nobody who foght a bunch of nobodies in his home country and the fight fixers back then cleaned up.

Damn cheating is a never ending situation in sports gambling.

[dahoss65]

I can't figure out for the life of me how John L. Sullivan could have been a champion of anything. I mean if you toss out his fight with Charley Mitchell (18-0), Sullivan's first 33 opponents had a combined record of 6-10. That's right, SIX and TEN from 33 fights.

He only fought 3 guys total during his career with a decent record, winning two and losing his last to James Corbett, another guy who was an over-rated heavyweight champion from the early days.

[hukootuna]

What kind of human being can do 75 rounds

[burgerking000]

Chuck Norris

[hukootuna]

oh yehh thats true....

[1kb3nt3g3k]

theres been records of people fighting for over 100 rounds, if someone wasnt knockedout at the end it was a no contest

[GranKnight87]

@hukootuna Lol!!!!!!!! I never laughed so hard in my life

[hukootuna]

What the F*+CK does he mean round 75

[nephildevil]

round 75!? wtf

[zyphoid666]

@nephildevil

It wasn't the 3 minute round structure from the Marquess of Queensbury rules though, London Prize Ring Rules stated that when a boxer was knocked down, he had 30 seconds to get up and return to the "scratch line". Basically once a knockdown was achieved, that was the end of the round and when the boxer went back to the "scratch line" that was the beginning of the next round.

[pronoob76]

@nephildevil damn no fing way

[jayr122001]

@nephildevil take note there not wearing gloves that time thats wtf

[bigboyburnsy]

i wonder how different the gloves were back then.

[dabluz1125]

they might as well have been fighting bare knuckled...

[G3ner0]

John L. Sullivan was the Last bare Knuckled Boxing champion and first gloved champion, b4 there was any gloved boxing it was just bare knuckled.

[Yrkoonz]

LOL no. If you watch the old films from the fights back then, the bare knuckle fighters didn't fight every minute of those 75 rounds. There'd be whole rounds of nothing but stalking and circling and waiting for the other guy to attack. Very boring by today's standards. Still took a great deal of endurance though, but its not the big accomplishment that it appears to be on paper.

[Automatic25]

wtf so many rounds? how didn't they die from exhaustion lol them must get like 10 minutes break every round lol or ythey had the best stamina back then

[Automatic25]

I think the era accelerated when Dempsey and Tunney came into the fold. Those were the best heavyweights back then not some shitty over 240lbs slow ass who im seeing now guys like Norton, Ali, Frazier, Foreman and many others

[wayneBedfre]

Great post, Thanks!

[ROCKYMARCIANOXX0]

cheers mate, keep posting plz :)

[jrhersh80]

75 rounds talk about cardio

[bigpoopie69]

And if the fight went less than 70 rounds, they gave you your nickel back!

[wiggazworldtv]

excellent. lol someone filming a pirate copy of a fight a 100 years ago.

[whiteb0xer]

wtf round 75?

[arroyomusic]

Hahaha! Yeah, I have a tough time with 3 rounds!

-Arroyo-

[sammychabert]

Thats exactly the words to come out of my mouth WTFF... That's back in the days of real men!

[madmax8903]

Tremendous! Look forward to the rest of the series. Thanks!!

[FLCLimax7]

Lol So funny when the guys all lets watch that in slow motion but its only like 5fps. Thanks alot for the video tho..

[Djclueless1]

Awsome video!!!!

[Jeet27]

Thanks for this!!!