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  Stanley Ketchel - Biocrawler
Ketchel was also known for taking on Heavyweights who sometimes outweighted him by more than 30 pounds, and he was seconds away from becoming world Heavyweight champion when he challenged Jack Johnson for that division's world title.
Ketchel fought during an era where there wasn't any scoring systems applied in boxing on most states and countries worldwide, so many of his fights that lasted the distance do not appear on his record's win or loss columns, whether he actually deserved to win or lose those fights.
Ketchel went to a farm near Conway, Missouri to train for his next fight, but a jealous farmhand named Walter A. Dipley caught his girlfriend, Goldie Smith, and Ketchel chatting up on the evening of October 14.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Stanley_Ketchel   (1224 words)

  
 IBHOF / Stanley Ketchel
Stanley Ketchel is considered by some to be the greatest middleweight of all time.
In the rematch with Papke, the challenger punched Ketchel in the head as the fighters were meeting in the center of the ring to shake hands.
Ketchel went on the attack in the eighth and on into the tenth round.
www.ibhof.com /ketchel.htm   (615 words)

  
  Stanley Ketchel
Ketchel was also known for taking on Heavyweights who sometimes outweighted him by more than 30 pounds, and he was seconds away from becoming world Heavyweight champion when he challenged Jack Johnson for that division's world title.
Ketchel fought during an era where there wasn't any scoring systems applied in boxing on most states and countries worldwide, so many of his fights that lasted the distance do not appear on his record's win or loss columns, whether he actually deserved to win or lose those fights.
Ketchel went into a farm to train for his next fight, but a jealous farmhand Walter A. Dipley[?] caught his girlfriend, Goldie Smith, and Ketchel chatting up on the evening of October 14.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/st/Stanley_Ketchel.html   (717 words)

  
 Stanley Ketchel
Ketchel went to a farm near Conway, Missouri to train for his next fight, but a jealous farmhand named Walter A. Dipley caught his girlfriend, Goldie Smith, and Ketchel chatting up on the evening of October 14.
There have been many theories about the circumstances in which Ketchel was killed: Other theories have Ketchel raping Smith the day before his death, after which she would have set him up to be shot on his back by Dipley.
Ketchel was named in 2004, by Ring Magazine, number six among boxing's all time best punchers.
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 Stanley Ketchel
Ketchel was also known for taking on Heavyweights who sometimes outweighted him by more than 30 pounds (14 kg), and he was seconds away from becoming world Heavyweight champion when he challenged Jack Johnson for that division's world title.
Many believe Ketchel and his management knew it was impossible that he could beat a much larger man (Stan sought to minimise the obvious discrepancies in pre-fight photos by wearing a heavy overcoat and high heels, while Jack was in shorts).
Ketchel did not wake up for an hour and all of his teeth were knocked out by the blow imbedded in Johnson's glove.
www.paleorama.com /Eponyms-S/Stanley_Ketchel.php   (1272 words)

  
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Ketchel as a boxer would simply come out at the sound of the bell and start swinging, his punches were thrown from every conceivable angle to any portion on the opponents body.
Ketchel was the son of a Russian immigrant and his Polish wife and ran away from home at age 14 (some say 12) in search of adventure living the life of a hobo riding the railways of America.
Ketchel was in great shape however for the bout and had Papke who was surprised by the fitness of Ketchel in real trouble in the 4th and 8th rounds.
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 Stanley Ketchel, The Michigan Assassin
Stanley Ketchel (World Middleweight Champion 1908-1910), born Stanislaus Kiecel on a farm near Grand Rapids, Michigan was one of the strongest and hardest hitting middleweights of all time.
Ketchel fought on with gritty determination but took a terrible beating over the remainder of the fight and was finally stopped in the 12th round.
Stanley Ketchel was shot in the back and killed by Walter Dipley, the common law husband of Goldie Smith, who had been cooking Stan's breakfast.
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 Stanley Ketchel - Iron Life Forums   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Stanley Ketchel was a fierce slugger and among the hardest punchers ever to grace the middleweight division.
Ketchel never recovered and was floored three more times in the round, but battled away before finally suffering defeat in the 12th.
Ketchel came back stronger than ever, knocking out Papke in the 11th round of their rubber match two months later and beating him again on points in July 1909.
www.ironlife.com /forum/showthread.php?t=46162   (439 words)

  
 The Montana Standard - Butte, Montana USA
Ketchel, who earned the nickname "The Michigan Assassin" for his devastating performances in the ring, quit high school and rode the trains from his boyhood home of Grand Rapids, Mich. to Butte in 1902 when he was only 16.
Ketchel entered the ring against "The Galveston Giant," as Johnson was called, in 1909, giving away 40 pounds and nearly a half-foot height advantage, yet still managed to knock the heavyweight down in the 12th round of their bout.
Ketchel was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame as one of its inaugural members in 1990 and was ranked in 2004 by The Ring magazine as the No.6 hardest puncher of all-time.
www.mtstandard.com /articles/2005/01/24/sportsprephighschool_top/hjjejihfjbidec.txt   (2084 words)

  
 What Really Happened in the Jack Johnson-Stanley Ketchel Fight?
Ketchel is even today considered one of the greatest middleweights of all time, whereas Johnson was easily the best heavyweight in the world at the time and one of the best defensive boxers the division would ever produce.
Stanley is rocked back on his heels by the punch, then collapses to the mat as the momentum of Johnson's punch carries him over the fallen man. Jack himself falls to the mat on the opposite side of Ketchel, having put all 209 pounds into the punch.
A year later, Ketchel is dead, murdered by the jealous boyfriend of a woman he may have made a lewd remark to as she fixed his breakfast.
www.eastsideboxing.com /news/bearden2006.php   (1815 words)

  
 Libraries - Missouri State University
The Ketchel Materials are the files that were included in the Robert Gilmore Collection.
The Ketchel Files were pulled from the COS Collection [RG 8/11] in 2003 and placed in the Robert Gilmore collection because they appeared to be part of Gilmore’s research.
The Murder of Stanley Ketchel, October 15, 1910: Busiek and Kozyra Correspondence
library.missouristate.edu /archives/speccoll/m006.htm   (1438 words)

  
 Life in the Fast Lane The Death of Stanley Ketchel Part II by Harry Shaffer
Ketchel and Dickerson shared a room in the main house and Bailey, his wife and hired girl also stayed in the main house.
Ketchel spent Thursday in the main house alone as Dipley and Goldie Smith continued to reside in the log house.
They later testified that Dickerson said" Stanley, speak to me. How did this happen?" "I was sitting at the kitchen table and I was shot in the back by this man Hurtz (Dipley)." "Get the woman too, for she robbed me." No money was found on Ketchel's person although he was wearing his diamond rings.
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 Life in Fast Lane The Death of Stanley Ketchel by Harry Shaffer
Stanley Ketchel, middleweight champion of the world, was billed to appear at a local theatre last night, but although he reached the city from Greensburg, he failed to appear at the playhouse, where a small audience had gathered.
Ketchel thinks he sustained the injury in the Johnson fight and the battle with Klaus made it worse.
Stanley Ketchel, the boxer, narrowly escaped injury today when his big touring car caught fire and was completely destroyed on the road to Ketchel's headquarters at Woodlawn.
www.antekprizering.com /ketchelarticlei.html   (1228 words)

  
 Ketchel Profile   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Stanley Ketchel was regarded for a long time as the greatest of all middleweights, although there have been so many great ones over the years it is impossible to compare them.
Ketchel took ample revenge on Papke in the return.
Ketchel was known as the "Michigan Assassin", but he himself was assassinated on 15 October 1910, when a jealous farmhand shot him one day while he breakfasted on holiday.
www.wtc.mb.ca /mp/2003/darren/squared/profiles/ketchel.htm   (193 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: The Killings of Stanley Ketchel: Books: James Carlos Blake   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
The short, brutish life of Stanley Ketchel, the middleweight champion of the ragtime era who ruled the ring until his murder at age 24, serves as inspiration for Blake's action-packed new novel (after Handsome Harry).
Blake follows Ketchel's career as he runs away from a loveless, violent farm home at age 15, "rides the rods" with the hoboes to Butte, Mont., where he first steps in the ring, and then goes pro in San Francisco.
In 1903 seventeen-year-old Ketchel makes a violent break from his father and flees his family's Michigan farm to ride the rails as a hobo, brawling with tramps and brakemen and cops.
www.amazon.ca /Killings-Stanley-Ketchel-James-Carlos/dp/0060554363   (690 words)

  
 Jo Sports Inc.
History: Stanley Ketchel, "The Michigan Assassin," began his professional career on May 2, 1904 with a one round knockout of Kid Tracy in Butte, Montana.
Ketchel was stopped in 12 rounds by Jack Johnson on October 16, 1909 in an attempt to win the World Heavyweight Title.
Full description: This antique photo of Stanley Ketchel is 4 1/2" x 6." There are small creases in the corners and in the center of the photo.
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 papke   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
By the time the fight was eighty seconds old, Ketchel appeared like a man who had been through eighty rounds: his right eye cut and swollen, his jaw puffing up, blood streaming from his mouth and nose, the man dubbed "The Michigan Assassin" gazed in bewilderment at his seconds, who stood by in utter dismay.
Ketchel returned to his feet only to be dropped an additional four times during the round, Papke hell-bent on exacting revenge against the man who had given him his sole defeat just three months earlier.
Ketchel readily agreed to a rematch, which Papke was so certain he could win he allowed for any concessions demanded.
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 Boxing Coverage updated 24/7 at MaxBoxing.com
Because Stanley Ketchel and Bob Fitzsimmons were white, they were permitted to fight for the heavyweight title.
Stanley Ketchel fought one decent light heavyweight, (Philadelphia) Jack O'Brien, and then was carried by Jack Johnson.
The bottom line is Ketchel, as great a middleweight champion he was and possibly could have been a good light heavyweight, he accomplished nothing at heavyweight.
www.maxboxing.com /Groves/Groves032906.asp   (1581 words)

  
 The Michigan Assassin
Stanley’s lack of skill in the ring was due to the fact that he never really had any proper boxing training.
Ketchel continued on his travels after that, landing in the mining town of Butte and working as a bouncer at a hole in the wall called the Copper Queen.
While Ketchel was not the most talented boxer in the world and he did not have the most scientific approach to the discipline, he still managed to compile a record of 52-4-4 (49) with 4 no decisions (no decisions were common for the time).
www.doghouseboxing.com /Jason/Petock101605.htm   (1027 words)

  
 Stanley Ketchel - Michigan Boxer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Stanley Ketchel – The body of Stanley Ketchel will arrive in the city tomorrow afternoon at 3 o’clock and will be taken directly to his parents home at Belmont, Pine Island Lake.
Springfield, Missouri, October 16 – Walter A. Hurtz, alias Walter Dipley, who shot and killed Stanley Ketchel at the ranch of R. Dickerson, 7 miles from Conway, Webster conty, Missouri, yesterday was arrested near Nianqua, Webster county, 17 miles from the scene of the crime, this morning by three farmers.
The body of Ketchel lay in state in a local undertaking establishment this forenoon and was viewed by thousands of people.
www.rootsweb.com /~mikent/biographies/famous/ketchel.html   (773 words)

  
 Ringside Report "The Heart Of Boxing"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Stanley Ketchel’s record at the time of his misfortunes was around, 52-4-4, 49 KO’s, give or take a few.
Stanley Ketchel was eating breakfast when in walked a ranch hand named “Walker Dipley.” He worked for Ketchel’s host, the owner of the ranch.
Ketchel was known to be a bit dimwitted when it came to property rights in regards to women.
ringsidereport.com /rsr/news.php?readmore=611   (1954 words)

  
 Sweet Science-Boxing
Stanley Ketchel would not be one of them, the millionaire playboy vowed.
Ketchel returned to his feet only to be dropped an additional four times during the round.
Interrogated at length, she vigorously denied that she was the Goldie of Butte, or that she was involved in Ketchel’s murder.
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 The National Polish-American Sports Hall of Fame and Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Few men in boxing stirred the emotions as did Stanley Ketchel-a veteran of 61 ring battles until he was shot to death on a Missouri farm one October day in 1910.
Ketchel was Grand Rapids, Michigan's greatest and most revered sports hero in the days of the brass spittoon, the nickel beer and sawdust on the saloon floor.
Ketchel had the champ on the floor, but Johnson rose from the canvas and knocked Ketchel cold with what is described as one of the most vicious punches ever thrown in boxing.
www.polishsportshof.com /bios/ketchel_s_complete.html   (266 words)

  
 Stanley Ketchel - Wikipedia
Erst 24 Jahre alt, wurde Ketchel während eines Trainingsaufenthaltes auf einer Farm von dem Farmhelfer Walter A. Dipley, wahrscheinlich aus Eifersucht, erschossen.
Den Revanchekampf gewann Ketchel durch Technischen KO in Runde 3.
Ketchel, den KO witternd, läuft in eine furchtbare Rechte, die ihn lange über die Zeit flach auf dem Rücken liegen lässt.
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 Stanley Ketchel
In boxing he was better known as Stanley Ketchel, American middleweight boxer who became champion.
It was thought that Ketchel agreed to fix the fight but go the full 20 rounds.
Stanley Ketchel was buried at Holy Cross Cemetery, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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 Stanley Ketchel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Two, it was rumored that Ketchel and Johnson when they agreed to the fight, they both agreed to take the fight the full 20 rounds and Ketchel would allow Johnson to win in the 20th.
When Ketchel deviated from the plan in the 12th, he then faced the wrath of Jack Johnson.
Ketchel did not wake up for many minutes and some of his teeth were knocked out by the blow, some imbedded in Johnson's glove.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stanley_Ketchel   (928 words)

  
 My Universe - Page 4 - OOTP Developments Forums
Stanley Ketchel is not to be denied, as he regains the WBA MW crown with a UD 15 (146-136, 144-139, 145-137).
Ketchel enters into this defense with confidence, having thrashed Thompson with KO wins in the first and second in two prior meetings, but Thompson has won six in a row since the last loss and Ketchel of course has hit the Post-Prime career stage.
Ketchel, behind on the scorecards as well, digs deep and lands a huge right cross to score the bout's first KD near the end of the 10th.
www.ootpdevelopments.com /board/showthread.php?p=1654431   (12677 words)

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