Search results for "Boxing" - New World Encyclopedia
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- concert clashed with a televised heavyweight boxing match between Rocky Marciano and Jersey Joe Walcott and as a result was poorly attended. Thankfully ...17 KB (2,690 words) - 00:38, 5 December 2023
- American boxer Jack Johnson. Himself a devotee of boxing, Davis drew parallels between Johnson, whose career had been defined by the fruitless search ...36 KB (5,661 words) - 15:45, 20 September 2023
- chi gong, meditation and forms of boxing. === Prohibition of Shaolin kung fu === The Qing dynasty (1644 – 1911) prohibited all combat arts ...18 KB (2,761 words) - 21:14, 16 June 2023
- Juan Domingo Perón (October 8, 1895 – July 1, 1974) was an Argentine soldier and politician, elected three times as president of Argentina ...17 KB (2,640 words) - 06:03, 10 May 2024
- scene, along with baseball's Babe Ruth, boxing's Jack Dempsey, American football's Red Grange, and tennis player Bill Tilden. He was ...19 KB (3,121 words) - 05:16, 17 November 2023
- and bets were paid, a Yale alum threw a boxing glove at a Harvard supporter. The other person grabbed a stick and swung at it. Hancock called ...50 KB (8,173 words) - 15:07, 27 April 2023
- sport, followed by track and field, boxing, and table tennis. Yoruba athletic events take place in either the National Stadium, Lagos (55,000 ...21 KB (3,192 words) - 21:30, 4 June 2023
- *Many boxing matches have been held at Yankee Stadium, notably Joe Louis's first-round knockout of Max Schmeling on June 22, 1938. Heavyweight ...20 KB (3,137 words) - 10:12, 22 May 2023
- fist," or "great extremes boxing" (note that 'chi' in this instance is an earlier romanization of modern 'ji,& ...44 KB (6,584 words) - 00:21, 16 February 2024
- Monday; Whit Monday; First Monday in August; Boxing Day in England and Wales and St Stephen's Day in Ireland), and five in Scotland (New Year's ...22 KB (3,231 words) - 02:32, 9 February 2023
- George Corley Wallace, Jr. (August 25, 1919 – September 13, 1998), was United States politician who was elected Governor of Alabama as a Democrat ...23 KB (3,280 words) - 07:33, 15 May 2024
- Thailand. The disaster has been variously named the Boxing Day Tsunami in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, because it took place ...44 KB (6,499 words) - 06:40, 13 June 2023
- whose featured event is the Wanamaker Mile. Boxing is also a very prominent part of the city's sporting scene, with events like the Amateur Boxing ...44 KB (6,512 words) - 09:31, 11 March 2023
- Other popular sports are hockey, boxing, football, golf, table tennis ... Stadium of Pakistan, UBL Hockey Ground), boxing (KPT Sports Complex), squash ...41 KB (5,975 words) - 17:58, 14 May 2024
- time of his introduction to gambling and boxing; he refereed a fight between ... 3, 1896, Earp was the referee for the boxing match to determine the heavyweight ...59 KB (9,719 words) - 14:12, 20 May 2023
- seated at ringside during Stan's ill-fated boxing match. As a teenager, Costello had been an amateur boxer in his hometown of Paterson, New Jersey. ...22 KB (3,334 words) - 04:43, 14 June 2023
- and first centuries B.C.E. However, except for boxing and chariot racing, most Romans had little interest in Greek athletics, in which serious injuries ...27 KB (4,185 words) - 05:55, 21 August 2023
- styles of Greco-Roman and freestyle to boxing, judo, jujitsu, European styles of folk wrestling, and even fencing. The rules for sport sambo ...26 KB (4,025 words) - 01:00, 17 April 2023
- jump. In addition, events such as wrestling, boxing, pankraton and hoplitodromos were added as well. The games existed until 393 C.E. when Roman ...24 KB (3,812 words) - 04:52, 1 May 2023
- cycling, rugby union, handball, tennis, boxing, and martial arts. Soccer is the most popular sport in Burkina Faso, played both professionally ...22 KB (3,224 words) - 18:45, 22 November 2023
