1 / 9

Crime or Sport?

Crime or Sport? . The Development of Modern Prizefighting. I. The Cultural and Legal Setting. Legal and Religious Opposition Specific legislation barring prizefights Prizefighting moves southward Popular urban sport Role of profit-seeking promoters --Richard Kyle Fox

enid
Download Presentation

Crime or Sport?

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Crime or Sport? The Development of Modern Prizefighting

  2. I. The Cultural and Legal Setting • Legal and Religious Opposition • Specific legislation barring prizefights • Prizefighting moves southward • Popular urban sport • Role of profit-seeking promoters --Richard Kyle Fox --National Police Gazette

  3. II. The Father of American Prizefighting • John L. Sullivan’s early boxing career • Modernized the “manly art” • Gradual, steady progress for boxing • Refusal to fight Jake Kilrain

  4. II. The Father of American Prizefighting (cont.) • Sullivan-Kilrain fight (July 8, 1889) • Fight brings boxing national prominence • Aftermath of the fight and the arrest of the fighters • Appeal of the arrests

  5. III. Boxing Comes of Age • Athletic Clubs sponsor “clean and decorous” fights • Boxing takes on corporate concept • New Orleans’ Olympic Club • Sullivan vs. “Gentleman” Jim Corbett (September 7, 1892)

  6. IV. Reform Backlash • Debate between Spencerian and Reform Darwinism • Suit brought against the Olympic Club • Trial testimony • Comparison to football • Final Olympic Club fight • Modernization of boxing

  7. V. Boxing Moves Westward • More conducive to the atmosphere of the American frontier • First possibility: Texas • Corbett vs. Fitzsimmons in Nevada • Prizefighting western style

  8. V. Boxing Moves Westward (cont.) • Referee Wyatt Earp • Boxing moves to California • Fitzsimmons vs. Sharkey in San Francisco • Post-fight controversy

  9. VI. The East’s Last Gasp • Success in the West made fans and promoters in the East envious • Jeffries vs. Fitzsimmons on Coney Island (1899) • Problems in Cincinnati • California as boxing capital of the world • Emergence of John “Jack” Johnson

More Related