This is the grave of Jack Johnson. Born in 1878 in Galveston, Texas, Jack Johnson was the greatest challenge to white manhood in the Gilded Age. He left school as a teen, wandered around a bit, ended up in Dallas, and found work as a...
boxing
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.
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.
A correspondent notes that today is the 20th anniversary of Tyson-Spinks: