PugJesus@kbin.socialM to HistoryPorn@lemmy.world · edit-21 year agoTwo boxers after fifteen rounds of trading blows. Canada, 1913media.kbin.socialimagemessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up1133arrow-down15
arrow-up1128arrow-down1imageTwo boxers after fifteen rounds of trading blows. Canada, 1913media.kbin.socialPugJesus@kbin.socialM to HistoryPorn@lemmy.world · edit-21 year agomessage-square14fedilink
minus-squarehotspur@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoDamn… 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.
minus-squarePugJesus@kbin.socialOPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoThrowing 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.
minus-squarehotspur@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoAh yeah that would explain it better. Still, talk about determination…
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.
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.
Ah yeah that would explain it better. Still, talk about determination…