Society stopped viewing boxing matches as an illicit ... “Where do you want me to put him, Mr. Corbett?”) Calling himself “Gentleman Jim” also had the added effect of contrasting him ...

Corbett won the gruelling 28-round match with a knockout. An 1893 picture of boxer James “Gentleman Jim” Corbett in his finery. The prizemoney allowed him to give up the day job and focus on ...

During one fight an English trainer named Walter Watson saw Corbett and convinced him to take his act to the Olympic Club. “Gentleman Jim” became a professional boxer in 1884 at 18 ...

Sullivan and fleet-footed challenger "Gentleman" Jim Corbett at the esteemed ... consider the beginning of the modern boxing era. NOW: The Sullivan-Corbett fight dragged boxing out of the shadows ...

Directed by legendary filmmaker Raoul Walsh, and starring Hollywood legend Errol Flynn as real-life boxer James J. Corbett (nickname: "Gentleman Jim") the bank clerk who became the World Champion ...

From the turn of the century all the way through the 1950s, the city was known worldwide as a boxing mecca. Local fighters such as "Gentleman" Jim Corbett, Fred Apostoli, Abe Attell and Carl "Bobo ...

Corbett became known as “Gentleman Jim.” Because of his advance-then-retreat style, became recognized as modern boxing’s father. On the big night, a crowd of more than 10,000 jammed the arena.