Boxer Gallery

The second fight between Harry Paulson and Tom Paddock, 1851 (late 19th or early 20th century).Artist: Pugnis

The second fight between Harry Paulson and Tom Paddock, 1851 (late 19th or early 20th century). An illustration from Famous Fights. Tom Paddock (1824-1863) fought Harry Paulson three times, twice in 1851 and once more in 1854. Paddock won the second fight, staged in Belper, Derbyshire, in the 86th round but a riot broke out and afterwards both boxers were jailed for 10 months with hard labour. Paddock went on to be English heavyweight champion between 1856 and 1858

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Oly 1960 Muhammad Ali

photo date des annes 60 de l'ancien champion du monde de boxe dans la catgorie des poids lourds, Mohamed Ali (Cassius Clay). Mohamed Ali devint champion olympique des poids mi-lourds en 1960 puis champion du monde poids lourds pour la premire fois en fvrier 1964 contre Sonny Liston.
(Files) A picture dated from the 60's of the U.S. boxing champion Cassius Clay alia Muhammad Ali. He won the Olympic middle heavyweight gold medal in 1960 in Rome, aged 18, and the professional world heavyweight title for the first time in February 1964 against Sonny Liston. AFP PHOTO / AFP PHOTO / PIGISTE

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Edwin Hubble, US astronomer C008/8831

Edwin Hubble. Caricature of the US astronomer, cosmologist, athlete and boxer Edwin Powell Hubble (1889-1953) smoking a pipe. In 1923 Hubble profoundly changed our understanding of the universe by confirming the existence of galaxies other than our own when he observed Cepheid variable stars in the Andromeda nebula, proving it was a galaxy. He later introduced the classification of galaxies (spirals, barred spirals, ellipticals). In 1929, he announced Hubble's Law, which showed that galaxies move apart faster the further away they are, key evidence for the expansion of the universe

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