Championship Fighting: Explosive Punching and Aggressive Defense

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In September 1926, Dempsey fought the Irish American and former U.S. Marine Gene Tunney in Philadelphia, [F] a fighter who had only lost once in his career. In spite of his record and Dempsey's inactivity, Tunney was considered the underdog against Dempsey. All newspaper decisions are officially regarded as "no decision" bouts and are not counted in the win/loss/draw column. To attain condition the boxer must train. And here we come to a very important subject. There are all sorts of ways to train and attain condition. And too many of these ways are either absolutely wrong, or they are so old and antiquated as to become useless.”

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Dempsey's rise like flash of meteor; New champion battled his way to pugilistic fame in period of three years. Willard his antithesis giant Kansan disliked fighting and has only one great victory to his credit. Dempsey a powerful hitter. Willard's age camouflaged". The New York Times. July 5, 1919 . Retrieved August 14, 2013.I haven't looked into it specifically, but yeah I heard Ken Norton just did calisthenics. It was common in the 70s. After Ron Lyle got stabbed and was put in solitary confinement, to pass the time he started doing over 1000 push ups a day. McGuinness, James Kevin (March 14, 1925). "A symbol in pugilism". Profiles. The New Yorker. Vol.1, no.4. pp.15–16. O'Connor, Emmet (2004). Reds and the Green: Ireland, Russia and the Communist Internationals, 1919–1943. Dublin, Ireland: University College Dublin. ISBN 1-904558-20-8. They don’t make ‘em like that anymore. How many times have we heard that age-old adage? Every boxing son of every boxing father has probably heaved a heavy sigh whenever dear old dad has uttered the famous words. The Boxing section on Sherdog has always seemed uncommonly knowledgeable to me (although I haven't contributed much to it since the glory days of Kid McCoy), so my question for you savants is how did these old-timers train? Were their methods significantly different from modern methods, and do you think they did anything particularly well? Is it true, as I've heard some old salts suggest, that contemporary fighters only look more "buff" because the sorts of exercises they do focus less exclusively on functional strength than the ones the old-timers did? Or does this belong in the same category as the mythology surrounding kettlebells?

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old timers did do push ups and pull ups, work with medicine balls, chopping wood, throwing around bales of hay, ect. basically they did primitive versions of what boxers do today, for better or for worse Deforest himself said that he regarded the stories of Dempsey's gloves being loaded as libel, calling them "trash", and said he did not apply any foreign substance to them, "which I can verify since I watched the taping." [33] Sports writer Red Smith, in Dempsey's obituary published by The New York Times was openly dismissive of the claim. [34] This section, which makes up the majority of the book, boasts lofty claims of teaching would-be boxers everything they need to know about fighting. No matter how much we’d all love to learn boxing at the feet of a champion like Dempsey, the book is hardly a substitute for time at a gym, with a coach. The vocabulary is straightforward enough, but the short, precise movements he describes and the very philosophy of punching seems only recognizable to those who’ve spent time in a gym. Likewise, about half of the illustrations — all strapping, young white men with already-toned boxers’ physiques — were vague and failed to shed additional light on the accompanying instructions. The Dempsey–Carpentier contest took place on July 2, 1921, at Boyle's Thirty Acres in Jersey City, New Jersey. It generated the first million-dollar gate in boxing history; [5] a crowd of 91,000 watched the fight. Though it was deemed "the Fight of the Century", experts anticipated a one-sided win for Dempsey. Radio pioneer RCA arranged for live coverage of the match via KDKA, making the event the first national radio broadcast. [3] [36]

I've heard that Archie Moore used to walk on his hands to develop his arms, but don't know if that is true. I do know that he used to train using a sledgehammer to develop power and he had Earnie Shavers do that, and also made Shavers cut down trees. Earnie Shavers also grew up cutting down a lot of trees and throwing bales of hay around.