1969_UT_Football

1969 UT Football Boxing was introduced to the United States after many rules were implemented because many white gentlemen in the United States thought that it was not a gentlemen’s sport. However, in 1888 every economic group officially recognized boxing in the United States. Even though it was officially recognized in 1888, many people still thought of it as ungentlemanly because of this, it was blacks in the United States that took the sport and ran! Many sport historians, such as Kevin Smith and A.J. Leibling, later named African American boxers the “Carmel Colored Kings.” Before boxing reached the United States, many blacks were already involved in the sport of boxing. These blacks were not African-Americans they were the blacks that lived in Europe during the British Empire. Not only were blacks boxing, but also their matches were being covered in local papers. “Yesterday afternoon a most desperate battle was fought in the Ring, in Hyde Park, between a butcher’s apprentice of St. James Market, and a black stripling, who was lately a servant to the celebrated Mr. Katterselto, which lasted upwards three quarters of an hour, during which time the success of the combatants was as sport, black, boxing, white, blacks, men, color, united, time, states, man, fight, british, boxers, money, matches, empire, each, contests, battle, winner, whites, very, took, times, ring, one, mixed, introduced, however, during, boxer, between, been, against, way, thought, though, themselves, superiority, success, strength, should, set, recognized, prize, place, passions, often