Many a boxer has been hailed as a man of steel because of his Rust Belt origins. But it wasn’t just hype when a ring announcer would trumpet: “And in this corner — Battling Nelson!” In 1906, Oscar ...
Standing up straight with thin gloves on their hands two boxers strutted around a ring, cuffed each other in the face, in the belly, over the heart. One was Battling Nelson, lightweight champion of ...
Though born in Michigan, Adolph Wolgast moved to Milwaukee in 1907 and became one of the city's more famous boxers -- a gritty lightweight who won a championship over Battling Nelson.
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