Tonight's entry in our tour of odd historical boxing videos continues with the glorious theme of cat boxing, this time from a bizarre short put out by General Motors in 1937. Some of this could actually be slightly disturbing to you so you are warned....
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More Gilded Age pugilism--except tonight it is boxing cats! The past is a strange place.
Time to take care of this blog's failure to pay attention to Gilded Age pugilism.
At risk of over-doing the Jewish thing, this is my internet Find-of-the-Day:Before Mendoza the Jew, boxers generally stood still and merely swapped punches. Mendoza's style consisted of more than simply battering opponents into submission, his "scientific style" included much defensive movement. He developed an entirely...
A correspondent notes that today is the 20th anniversary of Tyson-Spinks: