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Its 1897 and he's literally double cheeked up on a Thursday afternoon

What a marvel. Boxing sure has come a long way since (and boy, those shorts were short).

This is fantastic footage, and looks even more natural at 1.25 speed. They fight like a boxing game where you haven't learned the controls yet and just spam power punches and holding.

Butt cheeks in 1897? This footage completely alters my lifelong way of thinking about the past.

Could they imagine that 125 years later, people would be seeing this video and their fight would be one of the most legendary in the history of boxing? Amazing.

I know it is obvious but... It is stunning to think that's their "now". It always gets me!

The music is just the cherry on top

Its so crazy how iconic the first video footage will be for the entire human race into the future. This is a foundation for knowing exactly how humans looked at the earlist point in time. All paintings before could be questions to there accuracy

Modern boxers should bring back the 'thong and corset' look.

I hope Mr. Ass won 🤞🏻

It's interesting watching boxing from different times in history. You can see the evolution of technique.

Its so amazing to know that in those times there were already footage of boxing.

Why does everyone back then all look like they're 58 years old?

Someone needs to edit this with some Joe Rogan UFC commentary.

100 years later: Mike Tyson biting an ear off

As a boxing fan this is mind blowing!

And the "Mr. Bum Bum of 1897" goes to...

We need some boxing channels to break this down!

Well, we know they didn't keep their hands up back then! Awesome footage, thanks for sharing!

Boxing technique has certainly improved.

Not only is this the earliest footage of boxing, it’s also the first widescreen film, one of the first documentaries, AND the first feature film (that is, over an hour in length). Sadly, only fragments of the film remain in existence, but hey, at least any of it exists at all.

At first, I think 1897 was so long ago, but then I remember that my mom's grandparents would've been born or babies or young children at that time. 😳

Fitzsimmons, (a Cornishman by birth), was a rugged individual with a knockout punch. By todays standard he'd have been at best a super-middleweight yet he knocked out many a genuine heavyweight. Corbett himself, (buttock man), who himself was knocked out by Fitzsimmons in this fight, would have been rated no more than a light Cruiserweight today.

Could you give colors to the footage of the last Tasmanian Tiger alive at the zoo?

I want this fashion for casually wearing suits and hats to come back

Thanks for sharing. What a gem.

It’s eerie to think that everyone in this film is gone now

Corbett could certainly take a good punch as Fitzsimmons hit with some good shots. Just amazing to watch these two icons box. Thank you for the upload.

Lol why the dude cheeks out

Thank you very much Mr.

"Men were made of tougher stuff back then" Men back then:

These old films give me such a creepy feeling. All these people full of life, are not all dust in the wind.

My mans cheeks is hangin out!!

No protecting youe face, no fancy techniques. Just two men in undies punching each other in the face as hard as they can

he was 120 years ahead of time in terms of fashion

I'm amazed about the really revealing boxers shorts for the time.

The sad thing about these rare videos between 1880-1910 is, that nobody can say anymore "hey thats me, when i was waaay younger" :(

Anthony Joshua would still be out of his depth

this footage is completely incredible restoration. the first time i saw footage of this fight was on an old documentary. distorted, sped up. this shows the movements of the fighters and as distinguishable as i've ever seen. i see from the rest of your website that your focus isn't boxing, i'm interested in what else you're working on. maybe longer footage of this one?

It's a shame that a good transfer of the surviving footage hasn't been released. The original film was on 60mm and widescreen.

His shorts!😳🤣

I don't understand why I can't believe these people are now dead. It's probably a cognitive trap. I see these old shots that have miraculously survived to this day and I can’t believe it. So many years have passed. It becomes scary. Someday I'll die too, and this will all be over. Retro shots and just chronicles from any country, when the life of different people was filmed on camera, brings to tears. Such a strange indescribable feeling arises. It's like looking at old photographs of the past. All these people lived, studied, made plans, communicated, dreamed, quarreled, betrayed and loved. They endured hardships, cried, dreamed, were sick, suffered, hated ....A very strange feeling. I can't put into words. There is a residue in the soul, some shame and sadness. Long and deaf sadness... I'm crying...Hundreds of years separate us from them. Abyss. Such pain inside...

The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight is an 1897 documentary film directed by Enoch J. Rector depicting the 1897 boxing match between James J. Corbett and Bob Fitzsimmons in Carson City, Nevada on St. Patrick's Day

Really appreciate this. I've seen the blue memorial plaque for Bob Fitzsimmons in Helston, Cornwall, UK. After him us Brits had to wait til Lennox Lewis came along for the next world champ.

"Okay, I'll go in the ring and fight you, but only if I can wear the shorts that expose my butt-cheeks". And afterwards it's off to my place for some toasted cheese sandwiches.

When Sumo meets Boxing.

Wow boxers back then really let it all hang out.

Muy bien.desde Medellín Antioquia Colombia. Felicitamos x excelente video

Amazing; I never imagined one could throw a powerful punch with one's underwear pulled up so intrusively between the buttocks! What discipline!

That one guys outfit tho 😳

Great footage

This is extraordinary! I was hoping the person with the camera panned over to where the orchestra was playing. It sounded like a fair size orchestra that not only played beautifully but just loud enough to completely dominate the audio of this event. OH MY GOD! Is that DON KING in the second row on the left about 4 people from the corner of the ring!?!?? Wow, he looks so much younger than the last time I saw him in California during the Los Angeles earthquake of 1994. We were both attending Harry Nilsson’s funeral. The earthquake hit during the lowering of the casket at the cemetery. Don was between Michael Palin and myself. Of course George was there on the other side from where I was. George was with Ringo. Did you know that Ringo was Harry’s best man at his wedding? No wait. Maybe it was Harry who was Ringo’s best man when Ringo married Barbara Bach. Funny, I don’t remember if Barbara was there. You remember Barbara right? She was an actress and even played a Russian spy in a James Bond movie. Which movie? It was The Spy Who Loved Me… of course. I didn’t like the way Roger Moore played Bond. Too goofy. I liked Connery’s Bond. Yeah, Sean was a good Bond. I have only tried to drink a martini 3 times in my life. Once in the airport in Montana during a stopover on my way to Seattle. It was an airport bar - whatever that means. I just finished watching a Bond movie on the flight from Toronto and it got me curious about the “James Bond martini”. So I ordered one. I hated it. The next two times weren’t any different even though I had them in much nicer locations. One place was tropical. I’ve often been asked why I cheer for the Boston Bruins when I live only an hour away from Toronto. Apparently I am supposed to be a Maple Leafs fan. I was informed that the distance from the Maple Leaf Gardens to where I was living is clearly and logically within an area considered “local” with regard to a sports team fan base. I quickly understood that by proximity and the deliberate weather of southern Ontario made myself and every other human, domesticated non-human and anything else considered living (by definition including aphids, leatherjackets, sandpaper and nematodes). But I had other ideas so I bought a 1973 Plymouth custom four door satellite. It was blue. My proclamation was simple and immediately accepted. I said, “ Bobby Orr is from Parry Sound and has parents including one mother and a semi-father who had the respect of all semi-parents from Inverness and lurches along the ditches of Wellington side road 32. I’ve been told what my story is but so far I haven’t received any fruit or artichokes. Another bishop proper said with one nostril that everyone born in any season except the last four must - by the age of 9 (months or weeks I wondered) - know the basic fundamental foundation of all pondered and guessed during the passage of each breath taken and given back then scattered along roadsides for all who pass and all who fumble the greatest knowledge to withhold deep and down. The question and answer. The found what was seeked. The revelation of meaning, purpose, excrement. Seven words….. what is the difference between a duck?

Who's who?? It don't matter because the talent of reproducing such an old film is extraordinary!!! Thanx again👌

So this is where the saying "im clap them cheeks" comes from, the more u know

These people had not idea how crazy the 20th century would be.

can you post of a video of the Romans fighting in the Colosseum. anyone have video of that too?

Sorry if the question sounds silly, I have no knowledge of the process. In the process of coloring old movies, is there color information hidden in old tapes, or does whoever is doing the process put the colors they think look best? For example the color of a shirt, during the restoration does the editor have any hint that that shirt was yellow and not red?

I`m glad the shorts have improved.

Back when protecting yourself was considered low class. Just a competition on who smacks harder. Honorable and idiotic at the same time.

If I had tried any of those styles boxing as a young man, I'd spent more time on my back than on my feet🤕 But really cool to see old timey boxing in color, and in relatively normal speed👍

again, just unbelieveable quality

This fight took place in front of the current location for the jail in Carson City.

why is only 3 mins shown if it was 100 mins, i wanna see rest are they in your videos plz?

Crazy how far boxing technique has come since then

You're leaving us with the ultimate cliffhanger.....who won? Lol

i wonder how big this camera was & if it made noise

Ahhhhhh, those were the days! Back when puffing out the chest gave more protection than using your fists to protecting your head :P

Boxing contained much more grappling, elbows and butt cheeks back then 😆

Its amazing, Watching something from the 19th century in colour

This is amazing

Sometimes the algorithm actually give me a channel I like adn this is one of those times.

We need to bring those shorts back.....

fix aspect ratio? such basics...

Is this video really from 1897 ? I can't believe what I'm seeing. I find coins on the field from that times

Is this not the first colour footage of a wedgey?

man times have changed boxers dont have cake like that anymore 👀

So, is this how Sisqo came up with that thong th-thong, thong, thong song. I heard he was a boxing fanatic!

I freaking love history

I wish we go back using these shorts

All you hear is claps coming from inside the ring. LOL

Dayum this is some Canelo level shit!

do you have colorized wrestling matches ? professional wrestling i mean, from that period

Epic. Great times.

Fact: In those days (long before Las Vegas introduced massive prize money), the only way to get the fight going is to dress them so they make fun of each others’ “hot pants.”

Is it me or is that ring way bigger than today's size standard?

Isn't this the fight where Fitzsimmons defeats Corbett with the "solar-plexus punch"? I don't recall seeing that in this video, did I miss that?

wow fantastic

Make a tutorial about how to colorize a black & white video

What was he wearing 😳 😂

No boxing shorts in 1897 ?

They bringing bakeries at boxing fights back then? Zaaaammmnnn

You willing to reupload to correct aspect ratio? (Use bell as reference)

Ok but nobody talks about the choice of music here

¿Por que esa musica?

Taking short shorts to a whole different meaning

Damn boxing was brutal in those days.

thong was invented in 1898. people in 1897 :

This isn't a feature film. The first feature film was The Story of the Kelly Gang produced in 1906 in Victoria, Australia.

Why is it stretched out?