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  • Integrital
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    Epic Mickey Walker biography

    Here's part 1 of a piece I wrote on Mickey Walker for Queensberry-Rules.com. Apologies if this is viewed as spam, but I thought some of the history junkies might dig it:

    The gritty mythology of boxing is the type of stuff that makes the modern "badasses" of sports look like wimpy dullards. Flipping off fans? 19th century answer: alpha heavyweight champion John L. Sullivan, who apparently never could hold his liquor, drunkenly stumbling to the ring to have a title defense against Charlie Mitchell in 1884…


    I realize he has a book and that his life has/had been covered extensively, but I compiled this based mostly on newspaper articles written by people actually covering the fights, and I tried to avoid memoirs and biographies as much as I could.

    Thanks for reading.
    Last edited by Integrital; 02-23-2012, 10:27 PM.
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    And here's Part II:

    Continued from part I. Milwaukee fight promoter Frank Mulhern put up a good offer to stage a third match up between Mickey Walker and Jock Malone in "The Brew City," and Mickey was also in talks to meet light heavyweight champion Mike McTigue, who had also fallen from the good graces of the New York…


    Thanks again for reading.

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    • rob snell
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      #3
      very good

      what a quality piece of work this sure is mate and it is by chance a topic that I have been working on in recent weeks. When i have it completed it will be sent out as one of my newsletters etc and following this it would be good to combine them into a document for my biographies site.

      If we can share our source material that would be interesting, so tell me what you think

      cheers

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        #4
        Saved it to my bookmarks, looks awesome. Will read through it later.

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        • Integrital
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          Originally posted by rob snell
          what a quality piece of work this sure is mate and it is by chance a topic that I have been working on in recent weeks. When i have it completed it will be sent out as one of my newsletters etc and following this it would be good to combine them into a document for my biographies site.

          If we can share our source material that would be interesting, so tell me what you think

          cheers
          Much of the source material I either quoted or referenced, but I do have some stuff I'd be happy to share.

          Originally posted by Barnburner
          Saved it to my bookmarks, looks awesome. Will read through it later.
          Thanks, much appreciated.

          And here's Part III, the final installment of the lengthy piece.

          Thanks again!

          Patrick

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          • JAB5239
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            #6
            Originally posted by Integrital
            Much of the source material I either quoted or referenced, but I do have some stuff I'd be happy to share.



            Thanks, much appreciated.

            And here's Part III, the final installment of the lengthy piece.

            Thanks again!

            Patrick
            Great stuff! I think you posted the wrong link for part 3 though.

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            • Integrital
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              Originally posted by JAB5239
              Great stuff! I think you posted the wrong link for part 3 though.
              Thanks man.

              And I don't think I even posted the link, my mistake:

              The final installment. Previously: Part I and Part II. Mickey Walker's ring return in August saw him in with the "Aberdeen Assassin," light heavyweight Leo Lomski, and again it seemed as if someone had place a cookie cutter over the bulk of his fight looks and kept churning them out. Mickey charged early and had…

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              • JAB5239
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                Originally posted by Integrital
                Thanks man.

                And I don't think I even posted the link, my mistake:

                http://queensberry-rules.com/2012-ar...-part-iii.html
                These kinds of contributions are greatly appreciated in this section, so thank you!

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                • Integrital
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                  #9
                  Not sure if anyone is interested, and sorry to keep plugging myself here, but I've also been doing some stuff on Facebook and Twitter that some history heads may like:



                  and



                  Basically I update with fights that happened on "this day in history" or whatever, but I also try to post either fight links or screenshots of the post-fight reports if possible.

                  But either way, thanks guys. Not sure what I'm working on next, but I'll post it here if that's cool.

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by Integrital
                    Not sure if anyone is interested, and sorry to keep plugging myself here, but I've also been doing some stuff on Facebook and Twitter that some history heads may like:



                    and



                    Basically I update with fights that happened on "this day in history" or whatever, but I also try to post either fight links or screenshots of the post-fight reports if possible.

                    But either way, thanks guys. Not sure what I'm working on next, but I'll post it here if that's cool.
                    Keep em coming.

                    Im curious though.....you've been a long time member here, how come so few posts?

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