Dec 1903 Boxing Report

[Marchegiano]

There's just a ton of interesting stuff on this page.

Here first, look you at the New England champions:
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/72490736

Lang and Walcott, I didn't know.

And the rest:
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/72490871

Just a bit about Young Corbett and a bit about some prizerfighter's money. **** don't change. I thought the money talks was new **** but that was me being silly and thinking **** changes.

[Blond Beast]

Links didn’t work for me...I had a great large hardcover boxer anthology book once. It had a picture of a boxer and a paragraph or more on the fighter underneath. Cant remember when the names started but it was the late 1700s I think. Tom Cribb, Bill Richmond etc. all the way up to the mid 1990s at the time. I’ve read enough of the old histories, and yep “money” was always the main part of it. It’s a very “human” sport and everything was carefully manipulated just like it is today. Of anything history is more relatable than not.