Boxing Match Gallery

Advertisement for boxing match between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling, 1938

Framed advertisement for a World Heavyweight Championship boxing match between the African-American Joe Louis (1914-1981) and the German Max Schmeling (1905-2005), heavyweight champion of the world between 1930 and 1932. Louis won with a knockout in the first round. As a contest between representatives of the United States and Nazi Germany during the 1930s, the fight came to symbolise the struggle between democracy and Nazism. The advertisement is white with black and red type, with photographs of Louis and Schmeling. Type on the advertisement reads: [WORLD'S HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP / YANKEE STADIUM / WED. JUNE 22 / At 8:15/P.M. / Under the auspices of / 20th CENTURY SPORTING CLUB, Inc. / MIKE JACOBS, Promoter / 15 ROUNDS / JOE LOUIS / CHAMPION, vs. / MAX / SCHMELING / CHALLENGER / Other Star Heavyweight Bouts / JOE LOUIS / MAX SCHMELING / Reserved Seat Tickets / $30.00 - $20.00 - $16.50 - $11.50 - $7.75 - $5.75, Incl. Tax / ON SALE AT N. Y. HIPPODROME, 6th AVENUE & 43rd STREET, TEL. MU 2 - 6900]. The advertisement is housed in brown wood frame. The back of frame has wire for hanging

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Photographic postcard of James J. Jeffries staggering away from Jack Johnson, 1910

"Fight of the Century" between Jack Johnson and James J. Jeffries in Reno, Nevada. Jeffries can be seen in the background to be staggering away from Johnson. Two officials also stand in the ring. Their names are written in ink on their images. There postcard has been mailed and there is writing and a green one cent stamp on the reverse of the postcard. Jeffries is perhaps most famous for being United States "Great White Hope", since the nation expected him to come out of his retirement to beat the African-American boxer Jack Johnson. Johnson, the first Black American world heavyweight boxing champion, won the match and and retained the title

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Tom Cribbs second battle with Molineaux, 1811 (late 19th or early 20th century)

Tom Cribb's second battle with Molineaux, 1811 (late 19th or early 20th century). An illustration from Famous Fights. English boxer Tom Cribb (1781-1848) held the English heavyweight championship from 1808 until 1822, when he retired. He fought Tom Molineaux (1784-1818) for the championship twice. In this meeting, at Thistleton Gap, he won by a knockout in the 11th round. Molineaux was a former American slave and was the first black man to fight for the heavyweight title

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