old boxing cards
Mecca cigarettes aren’t around anymore, but tobacco companies haven’t forgotten about promotional items to get people hooked. I wonder what brand modern boxers would align themselves with…
George Foreman – Parliment Lights
Mike Tyson – crack cocaine. or Kools.
those are the only modern boxers I know.
I think Tyson would probably sponsor Phillies.
These cards must be close to 100 years old. I looked these two up online, it’s sort of interesting to read some of the old fight new clippings.
I also saw the same beecher card on eBay for 10 bucks.
Comment by Lyle_s — October 9, 2007 @ 4:56 pm
oscar de la hoya, but i can’t think what he might smoke…
Comment by rosie — October 9, 2007 @ 6:12 pm
I think he smokes pole
Comment by Lyle_s — October 9, 2007 @ 7:06 pm
no, he puffs pipe.
here are the reverse sides…
Comment by Rolston — October 9, 2007 @ 7:33 pm
look at those exotic ring locations. i’d be smoking dope.
Comment by sea n — October 9, 2007 @ 7:34 pm
and the ropes only go up to the knee. How often did they fall over backwards? It’s a tripping hazard!
Comment by Rolston — October 9, 2007 @ 7:38 pm
Do you have a good link for us Lyle?
Comment by Rolston — October 9, 2007 @ 8:13 pm
Here’s a story about Willie Beecher giving “Knockout” Brown a beating to remember (second to last bout on the left card). Two things jump out at me about the Beecher card.
1. This guy was fighting about 3 times a month, Including Christmas!
2. Apparently, if you didn’t beat your opponent into submission or knock them out, you didn’t win? Look at that card, it’s almost all no decisions, including the fight I linked to where Beecher supposedly won 8 of 10 rounds and landed many “right to jaw”s.
I also read some where that Young Corbett (real name Raffaele Capabianca Giordano) started boxing under his ring name at age 14. It seems like it was popular to stick Young on the front of your name back then, perhaps to denote that you were ‘young’.
Comment by Lyle_s — October 10, 2007 @ 5:01 pm
That was good readin’…
“Brown did nothing in the ninth except to stop, with his face and body , a perfect rain of blows that started his nose and mouth bleeding afresh.”
Thanks Lyle!
You’re right about the no decision, the point system and judges we have now must have developed out of the no decision conundrum. I’m all baffled by it.
Comment by Rolston — October 11, 2007 @ 6:39 am