Two boxers after fifteen rounds of trading blows. Canada, 1913
Two boxers after fifteen rounds of trading blows. Canada, 1913
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Damn… guess the rules were you had to KO or the bout just kept going? I can’t imagine what the last 6.75 hours of that looked like.
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Throwing in the towel might have been an option, but as I understand it, the boxers were fighting for prize money, and the loser would get nothing. Hell of an incentive to stay in.
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Ah yeah that would explain it better. Still, talk about determination…
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Much respect for them to have the stamina for the 7 hours of boxing. I guess after this they decided to time the match?
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7 hours? Most guys are gassed after 25 minutes!
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these guys were hopped up on maple syrup
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A nice large farva between rounds
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Got any more info on this? I'd like to know who the boxers are and why they allowed the fight to go for so long.
@cyborganism they didn't. Sorry to be that guy but there's a lot of misinformation online about this photo and @PugJesus seems to have inadvertently picked up the 7 hours figure from a hoax.
In reality this was a 15 round match from the early 20th century (boxing used to be 15 not 12).
It's sometimes falsely captioned as the famous 7 hour match from the 19th century that went over 100 rounds and 7 hours.
In this case the names are right but the description of the time is wrong.
Edited the title.
Yeah I saw that with a quick search of their names. Oh well.
Ray Campbell and Dick Hyland. Think it was before humane rules and norms to limit this kind of thing came about.