Edwardian fight reports and articles
Posted: 02 Sep 2018, 04:24
Rather like the thread I have set up for Edwardian lithographs and photographs, I thought I would do something similar for fight reports and interesting articles.
Once again my primary source will be the "Mirror of Life", a long-forgotten British publication, but one that is rich in excellent material. I am putting up post-fight interviews with Bob Fitzsimmons and his opponents after Bob's two victories, only two weeks apart, against leading heavyweights Gus Ruhlin and Tom Sharkey. I have often wondered why Fitzsimmons was held in such high regard by the men who fought him and knew him, being as small as he was. These articles go some way towards answering that question.
The fight reports themselves are extremely detailed and will be difficult to read if I post them here as the print is quite small, so if anyone would like to see them then please PM me.
Miles Templeton
Once again my primary source will be the "Mirror of Life", a long-forgotten British publication, but one that is rich in excellent material. I am putting up post-fight interviews with Bob Fitzsimmons and his opponents after Bob's two victories, only two weeks apart, against leading heavyweights Gus Ruhlin and Tom Sharkey. I have often wondered why Fitzsimmons was held in such high regard by the men who fought him and knew him, being as small as he was. These articles go some way towards answering that question.
The fight reports themselves are extremely detailed and will be difficult to read if I post them here as the print is quite small, so if anyone would like to see them then please PM me.
Miles Templeton