Exhibitions

[Emaster]

What does the result of Eddie Wosinski's fight with Ad Wolgast held on September 16, 1912 mean?

[Reenthelawman]

Exhibition?

[JCS]

Correct.

[Emaster]

I've found the following statement on this wiki page:

"The BoxRec database does not include amateur, bare-knuckle (pre-Marquis of Queensbury Rules) or exhibition bouts, although such matches might be mentioned in the boxer's BoxRec Wikipedia biography."

[John]

I've found the following statement on this wiki page:

"The BoxRec database does not include amateur, bare-knuckle (pre-Marquis of Queensbury Rules) or exhibition bouts, although such matches might be mentioned in the boxer's BoxRec Wikipedia biography."

A few (21) exhibition bouts are still in the system for various reasons, eventually they will all be moved to the wiki.

[Emaster]

A few (21) exhibition bouts are still in the system for various reasons, eventually they will all be moved to the wiki.

For what it's worth, here's a list of possible exhibitions, amateur and bare-knuckle fights which have not been removed from BoxRec yet:

Exhibitions (results shown as NC-EX):
1882-11-27: Tom Allen vs. George Rooke
1884-01-07: Tom Allen vs. Martin Fiddler Neary
1887-12-19: Jem Carney vs. Mike Daly
1925-12-23: Black Bill vs. Ad Makel
2000-04-21: Ana Mandic vs. Maria Moroni

Exhibitions (results not shown as NC-EX):

1883-01-01: Harry Gilmore vs. Bob Farrell: "... Gilmore stated that this was an exhibition with large gloves at one of John L. Sullivna's road shows (Jan 25?)"
1918-04-06: Eddie McGoorty vs. Billy Papke: "This was one of a series of service exhibitions by McGoorty ..."

Bare-knuckle fights:

1885-07-20: Jack Dempsey vs. Jack Keenan: "This was a bareknuckle fight and will be deleted ..."

Mike Donovan's record seems to include several bare-knuckle fights.

Amateur fight:

1892-08-29: Joe Walcott vs. Jack Leahy: "This was to be Walcott's last appearance as an amateur, according to Boston Morning Journal ..."