{"id":8352,"date":"2018-11-07T07:00:45","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T07:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/?p=8352"},"modified":"2021-03-31T16:47:12","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T16:47:12","slug":"boxing-vs-savate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/07\/boxing-vs-savate\/","title":{"rendered":"The Boilermaker Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"blog\">\n<h4 id=\"top-header\">Lest We Forget...<\/h4>\nMixed martial arts, mixed matches, and combination fights are not a new development. Even when following Greek <em>pancratium<\/em> and its long lineage through the fearsome hybridization melting pot of American Frontier rough &amp; tumble, fights that were more than mere boxing\u2014more than mere grappling\u2014have been of great interest.<!--more-->\n\nThis fascination often lies in the comparison of styles as opposed to the comparison of the athletes themselves. But we must never jump to the conclusion that a kicker knocking out a grappler means that kicking is necessarily superior, or that a grappler choking out a striker means that grappling is the be-all-end-all. This merely means that in these particular instances, the victorious athlete was better than their opponent or that luck was on their side.\n\nWith that out of the way, we must admit that no matter what is \"proven\" by mixed matches, they hold appeal. Let's look to one such historical mixed match.\n\n[dfads params='groups=292&amp;limit=1&amp;orderby=random']\n<h4>Jim \"The Boilermaker\" Jeffries<\/h4>\nHeavyweight boxing champion Jim \"The Boilermaker\" Jeffries was coming off of his victory against the canny (and physically smaller) Bob Fitzsimmons. Jeffries is mostly known for his defeat in his comeback fight against Jack Johnson and the racial nastiness surrounding the lead-up to the fight rather than for the athlete and force of nature he was before his downfall.\n\nIn his prime, Jeffries was considered somewhat invincible. This opinion was not so much due to his boxing prowess, which many derided or found rudimentary at best, but more for his phenomenal strength and stamina. Add to that his ability to ride through a good deal of punishment.\n\nJeffries was an astonishing stamina machine for such a big and powerful man. A typical day following his training regimen looks like this:\n<ul class=\"blog-lists\">\n \t<li>Rise at 6 AM.<\/li>\n \t<li>Work with pulley-weights for ten minutes. Then...<\/li>\n \t<li>Wind sprints for 20-minutes.<\/li>\n \t<li>For breakfast: A lambchop and two soft-boiled eggs. No coffee, tea, milk, water, or fluid of any kind. Jeffries believed excess fluids cut down on speed.<\/li>\n \t<li>Rest till 9 AM. Then...<\/li>\n \t<li>Run <strong>14 miles.<\/strong><\/li>\n \t<li>After the run, a rubdown and rest.<\/li>\n \t<li>At 2:30 PM get back to work.<\/li>\n \t<li>Play several games of handball for speed and wind.<\/li>\n \t<li>Skip rope and punch the bag for 20 minutes.<\/li>\n \t<li>Enter the ring to spar for 16 3-minute rounds. His partners are instructed to slug as hard as they can while he holds back.<\/li>\n \t<li>Finish with more skipping rope, throwing the medicine ball, and high-speed shadowboxing sprints.<\/li>\n \t<li>For supper: Lambchops, spinach or asparagus, and still no fluids (I know we scoff at his superstition, but I wonder which one of our dietary \"facts\" will be scoffed at next Tuesday?).<\/li>\n \t<li>Take a long walk to loosen up and finally...<\/li>\n \t<li>At 9 PM drink a glass of water (slowly) and go to bed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nNow, that is one helluva workload. If we compare this to Jeffries' boxing deficit we can get a taste of how and why this workhorse made it as far as he did. Frankly, most people are not willing or able to endure such a Spartan regimen.\n\n[dfads params='groups=292&amp;limit=1&amp;orderby=random']\n<h4>The Man From The West<\/h4>\nJeffries picks up the title on June 9th, 1899. He then did what most champions of the era did\u2014took to the stage to travel the world and offer audiences horrible thespian skills. Jeffries traveled with a show called \"The Man from the West\". He also did boxing exhibitions at most of these engagements as well as some baseball umpiring.\n\nIn these exhibitions, local champions would step into the ring and <em>The Boilermaker<\/em> would treat them nicely while they did what they could. Remember, Jeffries was used to holding back as it was a mainstay of his sparring style.\n\nHe travelled to England with his show and boxed many more exhibitions, knocking out more than a few folks who wanted to see if they could <em>\"get some licks in on the champeen.\"<\/em>\n<div class=\"small-12 medium-10 medium-centered large-8 large-centered columns\">\n\t[dfads params='groups=290&amp;limit=1&amp;orderby=random']<\/div>\n<h4>The French Champion<\/h4>\nIn France he was slated to face a \"champion\". Now, the champion's name is elusive in the accounts, but the circumstances and outcome remain consistent.\n\nThe intrepid French champion negotiated to kick as well as use fists, so it is unclear if he was a boxing champion looking for an extra advantage or a <em>la savate<\/em> champion looking to capitalize upon his wares. Either way, Jeffries was informed of the request and upon hearing that the challenger wished to kick as well, he replied, <span class=\"boldEm\">\"Go ahead.\"<\/span>\n\nAccounts state that Jeffries went to work with <em>\"jabs to the nose, hooks to the body, and light raps to the chin.\"<\/em> Jeffries used a balance-upsetting strategy and the challenger <em>\"never got a kick away.\"<\/em>\n\nWhen the challenger began to stagger around the ring, Jeffries started holding back. His corner had advised him it was bad form to <em>\"knock out such an eminent athlete.\"<\/em>\n\nUnable to <em>\"carry\"<\/em> his opponent longer, Jeffries ended the bout by casually pushing him through the ropes. This mixed match will never solve the <em>\"which style is better\"<\/em> debate, but in this case I think we can confidently state that a very powerful man held sway because of his athletic attributes which were aided and abetted by his boxing.\n<p id=\"read-more-link\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/fightfast.com\/nbcv\/ILLBX\/ntbt-k.php?utm_campaign=ILLBX&amp;utm_medium=post&amp;utm_source=blog&amp;utm_content=MarkBoxing_11-7-18&amp;utm_term=existing-list-list\">Click here for boxing training by Mark Hatmaker!<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lest We Forget&#8230; Mixed martial arts, mixed matches, and combination fights are not a new development. Even when following Greek pancratium and its long lineage through the fearsome hybridization melting pot of American Frontier rough &amp; tumble, fights that were more than mere boxing\u2014more than mere grappling\u2014have been of great interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,7],"tags":[137],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8352"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8352"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12819,"href":"https:\/\/fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8352\/revisions\/12819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}