History of Boxing in Mexico
Silas Gillett
Mexicanidad and Masculinity
Mexicanidad & Masculinity
- Masculinity as performance
Mesoamerica
- Classic and Post-classic era Maya
19th Century
19th Century
- Porfiriato & globalization
- Marquis of Queensbury Rules
- North Americans entertaining Mexican elite
Growth in the 1920s
Growth in the 1920s
- Mexican Revolution
- Sports as entertainment
- Dempsey vs Firpo
- Federal District Boxing Commission
- Olympic sports develop
Golden Era
- Growth of international sports
- New arenas
- Ties Mexico together
Urbanization and LA
Ubanization and LA
- Mexico City population 1930: ~ 1 million
- 1970: > 9 million
- Corruption and excess
- Los Angeles
- WWII
- Suburbanization
Regulation
- 1959 Luis Spota president of FDBC
- 1963 first World Boxing Convention and World Boxing Council
- NBA -> WBA, joins WBC
- Pulls out 1966
- Power struggles throughout 1970s
Second Golden Era
- 1968 Summer Olympics
- 1969 3 World champs in 6 months
- Most championships in LA
- Julio Caesar Chavez, Ruben Olivares, Salvador Sanchez, Carlos Zarate, Ricardo Lopez
Second Golden Era