BOXING - What Happened On This Day???????

Nice work Sally - leave it to you now - I'll just read 'em.

 

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Birth date of David Haye.

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...more belts than a menswear shop!

The 'Hayemaker' has certainly breathed some fresh air into the heavyweight division since coming up from demolishing the cruisers. Some would argue he lacks the Klit fetish necessary for bigger rewards though.

Will be interesting to see how long it takes him to dismember Audley Harrison in a months time.

 

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Vicente Saldivar v Howard Winstone - Estadio Azteca, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.

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Saldivar retains his WBC & WBA world featherweight titles by TKO in round 12 of 15.

This was the 3rd clash between the pair, the result, a clean sweep for the Mexican Saldivar.

Saldivar announced his retirement after this bout. But was back into it very soon after after.

In mid 1970 Saldivar would win Johnny Famechon's WBC featherweight title and send Fammo into retirement.

 

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Joe Calzaghe v Sakio Bika - M.E.N. Arena, Manchester, Lancashire, UK.

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The Pride of Wales retains his World super middleweight title by UD over 12 rounds.

Bika certainly doesn't duck 'em! Hopefully he'll fare well against Andre Ward shortly.

 

Big wrap for Calzaghe Josey - he gets bagged by some but FFS 46-zip is good enough for me.

 

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(100 years ago today)

The tragic death of World middleweight champion Stanley Ketchel.

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Ketchel 24, ironically known as the 'Michigan Assassin' is shot and killed by Walter A. Dipley at a Missouri ranch where Ketchel was spending time between fights. Seems both Ketchel and Dipley were infatuated by the same woman, the cook, Daisy Johnson, and it led to Dipley shooting Ketchel in the back.

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Mike Tyson v Mitch Green - Manhattan, New York courtroom.

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...Tyson after the street 'bout'.

A Manhattan jury awards heavyweight Mitch 'Blood' Green $45,000 in a lawsuit against former two-time heavyweight champion Mike Tyson arising out of their Harlem streetfight in 1988.

In the ring, also in 1988, Tyson defeated Green by UD over 10 rounds.

 

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The great Ambrose Palmer passed away 20 years ago today, and it is 100 years to the day since his birth.

As most of us know Ambrose Palmer is one of the true legends of Australian sport. A man who excelled at boxing and Aussie Rules football, but more importantly, at life itself.

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I'm not going to attempt to do Ambrose justice with my words, but suggest instead posters read the excellent recent article in FIST magazine, or get busy on the Net.

Here's an article plucked randomly from the Net to get you started:


The gentleman boxer

by Paul Daffey - The Age - May 20, 2006

The magnitude of Anthony Mundine's achievement in boxing, a sport he took up only after quitting rugby league at 24, is being recognised after his victory over Danny Green in Sydney during the week.

In Melbourne, a predecessor of Mundine as one who excelled at boxing and a football code was Ambrose Palmer, who grew up near the Western Oval in Footscray and became a sportsman of national standing. In the early 1930s, Palmer held three Australian professional boxing titles. From 1933 to '43, he played 83 VFL games for Footscray, mainly as a ruck-rover. As a professional sprinter, he won a Kyneton Gift and finished second in a Warrnambool Gift. He died in October 1990 at the age of 78 (perhaps they've buggered up their maths here?).

GENTLEMAN

Palmer never used his boxing prowess on the football field. Once, after an incident in which Jack Dyer had transgressed the rules, Palmer got off the ground and shook Dyer's hand rather than seek revenge. Bill Kent, a professor of history at Monash University, who grew up in Footscray, said yesterday that Palmer was renowned as a gentleman boxer. "Everybody in Footscray knew him," said Kent, who grew up with his father Frank, a former boxer and footballer, always talking about Palmer.

Bill Kent's main boyhood memory of Palmer is of delivering the paper to him in Footscray's Errol Street. "If he came out and took the paper from you — especially the Sporting Globe on a Saturday night — you almost fell off your bike," Kent said. "He was gentle, nice — the opposite of a bruiser."

ON FOR YOUNG

At 19, when Palmer was working as a blacksmith, he knocked out Australian middleweight champion Jack Haines during their bout in Sydney to win his first national title. Over the next two years, Palmer also won the national light-heavyweight and heavyweight titles, becoming one of the few boxers to hold concurrent national titles in three divisions.

Palmer's most famous fight was against monstrous American heavyweight Young Stribling at the Sydney Stadium. As a middleweight, Palmer was fighting the odds. His eyebrows became so scarred by the bout, in which Stribling knocked him out, that they subsequently cut easily. Palmer stopped boxing for a short time in 1932 to let his eyebrows mend. He began playing football with local club Riverside, at the current ground of the Parkside Football Club, by the Maribyrnong River, and was asked to play for Footscray.

FIRST SPORT

Palmer regarded football as recreation; his first sport remained boxing. In 1934, when he was 22, and when he posed for the photo on this page, he had nine bouts for seven wins, one loss and a draw. One of his victories was a points decision over an Italian, Pietro Spagnola, on a Friday night at the Fitzroy Stadium in Johnston Street. The following night Spagnola was a spectator at the fights at the West Melbourne Stadium, now Festival Hall, where a reporter observed his presence.

"Pietro Spagnola was an interested onlooker with his one undamaged eye, but the other showed clearly the effects of the visitations of the Australian champion Ambrose Palmer. Spagnola was complimented on a game showing and said that, if given another chance against the title-holder, he would adopt different tactics. He was told by critics that, when he had bustled Palmer, he had done well."

- Paul Daffey 2006.


This video of Ambrose working with some young pros is priceless, and the 'best supporting role' here is played by none other than ESB poster 'Tigerofold':


[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlHjnp19yS0[/ame]


...and if you liked the video you need to read this as well:


http://members.westnet.com.au/zelky/terrygrinsted/ambrose.html

 

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Jack Johnson v Stanley Ketchel - Mission Street Arena, Colma, California, USA.

Johnson retains the World heavyweight title by KO in round 12 of 20.

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....Johnson v Ketchel.


Courtesy of Associated Press:

“The whole climax of the fight was crowded into thirty-four seconds. At the beginning of the last round, there was little to judge from preceding rounds to pick the winner. They met in the center, clashed and wrestled to Johnson's corner. The Negro broke, and poising himself, dashed at Ketchel, who shrank to meet him. Ketchel drove his right to the black's lowered head. Johnson ducked and received the blow behind the ear and rolled to the floor. Johnson arose slowly and leaped toward the white man, landing a terrific blow on Ketchel's jaw; with his left he struck for the stomach and with his right swung again, catching Ketchel's head as it rolled from the onslaught. Ketchel dropped in a heap while Johnson sprawled across the beaten rival's legs. Johnson arose still dazed and clung to the ropes." (Associated Press)

 

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Ike Quartey v Jose Luis Lopez - Foxwoods Resort, Mashantucket, Connecticut, USA.

The 'Ghanan Bazooka' Quartey retains the WBA Welterweight Title with a majority draw over 12 rounds.

Initially the fight was awarded to Quartey. But an irregularity was discovered in the scoring and the result corrected to a draw - naturally either result would have had Quartey retain his title.

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....Ike Quartey.

Despite being dropped in the 2nd & 11th rounds, and fading badly towards the end, Quartey controlled most rounds with his jab.