#pugilism

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Paddy Ryan (1851-1900) was a professional heavyweight bare knuckle boxer and prizefighter who was a heavyweight champion once, but lost his title to John L. Sullivan. He was known as the Trojan Giant.

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Samantha Box

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Frankie Vallerino and Bert Colima II fight, Hollywood, California February 21, 1938

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"Shadow Boxer" (0002)

(More of The Pugilist Series)

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Women X Wo+man.🤔

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Redraw from a Mashiba I did in 2020. By the way, he is my favorite character in Hajime no Ippo.

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Mantis Mitts by Griffon's Saddlebag

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Kiyo - Flaming demon

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ROCKY BALBOA 🥊

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On Feb. 25, 1964, Cassius Clay became the world heavyweight boxing champion when he defeated Sonny Liston in a monumental upset. The braggadocios fighter, who later became known as Muhammad Ali, reacted gleefully after he was declared the champion on a seventh round TKO against the favorite Liston at Convention Hall in Miami Beach, Fla. (AP Photo)

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"Shadow Boxer" (0001)

(The Pugilist Series)

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Boxing Day 2022

Today is Boxing Day in much of the British Commonwealth. It is usually customary for us to do a pugilistic post on this day, but since the library is closed today and we do not have access to our physical collections, we are turning instead to our digitized collection of Milwaukee’s ultra-radical underground newspaper of the late 1960s/ealry 1970s, Kaleidoscope, for their irreverant take on this holiday season.

Kaleidoscope was published in Milwaukee from October 6, 1967 to November 11, 1971. The newspaper was so radical and irreverant that its editor John Kois was convicted of obscenity. The case was appealed all the way to the Supreme Court, which ruled in Kois’s favor, although by that time the newspaper was already out of business. In Kois v. Wisconsin, Justice William O. Douglas wrote that “the vague umbrella of obscenity laws was used in an attempt to run a radical newspaper out of business . . . . If obscenity laws continue in this uneven and uncertain enforcement, then the vehicle has been found for the suppression of any unpopular tract.”  

The newspaper is still considered so radical, however, that we felt compelled to offer this disclaimer to the digital collection: “Please be advised that this digital version of Kaleidoscope may contain images, language, and themes that may be offensive to some viewers. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries does not endorse the content of these items. However, they present an aspect of the cultural record which we deem worthy of preserving and presenting.”

So, for its rather pugilistic stance on most every issue of its day, we offer these pages from Kaleidoscope for Boxing Day 2022 (yes, yes, we know it’s not that kind of boxing!) You may review the full digitized collection of Kaleidoscope here, or you can come to UWM Special Collections to review the original newspaper for yourself.

View other posts from Kaleidoscope.

View posts from Boxing Days past.

Happy Boxing Day!