The Life and Murder of Stanley Ketchel: Middleweight Champion of the World | Boxing History

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  • čas přidán 26. 06. 2024
  • This documentary details the life, boxing career, and murder of Stanley Ketchel. With newspaper and magazine articles from the time, court transcripts, and biographies written by men who knew the middleweight champion, Stanley Ketchel's childhood through the trial following his murder are covered.
    Stanley Ketchel, the first prize fighter to regain a lost world championship, visited Springfield, Missouri on the invitation of R.P. Dickerson. After buying land with plans to retire from boxing to become a rancher, Ketchel was shot in the back outside Conway, Missouri and later died.
    CORRECTIONS & ADDITIONAL INFO -
    Jack Welch served as the referee of the Johnson-Ketchel match. Not Jeffries.
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Komentáře • 56

  • @Bizzyphazilly
    @Bizzyphazilly Před měsícem +13

    I love when Mike says something like, "Stanley was a real wild and crazy guy."
    This was a gripping and thoroughly enjoyable documentary. I wish more creators made documentaries about boxers EXACTLY like this, and often !
    Rip All kilt boxers

    • @adamgwhitaker
      @adamgwhitaker  Před měsícem +1

      Thank you. I'm happy you liked it. I'm planning more boxing and baseball documentaries so please subscribe.

    • @Bizzyphazilly
      @Bizzyphazilly Před měsícem

      @@adamgwhitaker I subscribed today and look forward to more of your docs. I love to learn bro. Appreciate you

    • @willb.danger6573
      @willb.danger6573 Před 8 dny

      A fly on the wall when Cus was telling Mike all those stories....

  • @Thelategreatjohnnybratton

    I’ve been reading about Ketchel for over 65 years. He was a wild man with wild swinging punches. To me hard to tell his place in MW history as more scientific fighters emerged but certainly an all time great who probably had not reached his peak.

    • @Thelategreatjohnnybratton
      @Thelategreatjohnnybratton Před 28 dny +1

      @justthink5854 yes
      It’s really too bad no films of Greb in a fight exist, at least none have been found. I found it interesting reading Adam Pollocks so far two part, a third is soon released, bio of Dempsey. By far the most detailed comprehensive bio of Dempsey and lots of information and newspaper reports on Greb including opinions by fans and reporters. I think I learned more about Greb reading the Dempsey bio than the bios I have read about Greb. Pollock uses newspaper reports from all over the world and since Greb and Dempsey were contemporaries lots of opinions of Greb and his fighting style are included. A great read for real boxing fans.

    • @unique_mushroom
      @unique_mushroom Před 18 dny

      wow! over 65 years? may i ask how old you are? thats really impressive. i assume you've followed the sport that whole time too? i would have loved to have been around for that many of the great eras in boxing.

  • @TraceyMurray-zg7ih
    @TraceyMurray-zg7ih Před měsícem +5

    Ketchel was just a smaller version of Dempsey

  • @Steven-xv8eg
    @Steven-xv8eg Před měsícem +4

    Many thanks for the upload, Ketchel was a real character! 🎉

    • @adamgwhitaker
      @adamgwhitaker  Před měsícem +1

      Thank you for watching. I'm happy to hear you liked it.

  • @chrispaul7849
    @chrispaul7849 Před 28 dny +3

    thank you so much for this, I have been a lifelong admirer on SK's and read everything I could about him... I am also a writer and always thought a biopic of him and Rube Waddell would be something I would love to write and see. What colorful lives packed into such short ones of both men! They died 4 years apart. I wonder if they ever met? I collect tons of cards and 2 of my most prized are Stanley and Rube's, both minted in their eras.

    • @adamgwhitaker
      @adamgwhitaker  Před 21 dnem +1

      Thank you for watching. It's definitely an interesting story and could make a good movie.

  • @stevematteo1511
    @stevematteo1511 Před 27 dny +1

    Great work and effort to tell this story!
    Ketchel was one best fighters ever. Imagine what he would’ve accomplished if he
    wasn’t murdered at age 24.

    • @adamgwhitaker
      @adamgwhitaker  Před 21 dnem

      Thank you for watching. I do wonder if he would have soon retired or if being a rancher wouldn't have held his interest.

  • @chriso1585
    @chriso1585 Před 25 dny

    Well researched and interesting enough to have me glued to the screen, thanks for your efforts on a brilliant documentary of a fighter that has been forgotten by the majority of boxing fans

  • @lane99
    @lane99 Před 19 dny

    What a great video. Well done.

  • @risboturbide9396
    @risboturbide9396 Před měsícem

    Thank you! Great video 🍻🍻

  • @martyc4599
    @martyc4599 Před 25 dny

    Thank you for putting so much effort into this research and subsequent upload. I found this fascinating. Stanley Ketchel has always been on my radar since I was a teenager and budding boxing historian. Thank you again. Great piece of work.

    • @adamgwhitaker
      @adamgwhitaker  Před 21 dnem

      Thank you, I appreciate it. Even living near Springfield, I only first heard about this story a few years ago. I started looking for old newspapers thinking I'd write an article for Boxing News and eventually decided on the documentary.

    • @martyc4599
      @martyc4599 Před 21 dnem

      @@adamgwhitaker Did Boxing News take it up? What about Ring Mag? Good luck anyway. I wish you all the best.

  • @sa1boxfitboxercise271
    @sa1boxfitboxercise271 Před měsícem +2

    I didn't realise that Conn was introduced after Louis!

  • @michaelhiggs8657
    @michaelhiggs8657 Před měsícem +4

    I believe Bob Fitzsimmons was the 1st to keep a Lion as a pet.

  • @willb.danger6573
    @willb.danger6573 Před 8 dny

    I've always loved that Dynamite knows the shit outta boxing history. Cus man...

  • @alexcarter8807
    @alexcarter8807 Před měsícem +1

    That guy better have bought his kid that violin. Kid's got 6 fingers besides a thumb, plus he's got telekinetic powers. "Buy me a violin, Dad, or I"m gonna wish you into the corn field!".

  • @itsnotme3882
    @itsnotme3882 Před měsícem

    Really good work, this was great. Good narration and great details. But I hate the AI drawings.

    • @adamgwhitaker
      @adamgwhitaker  Před měsícem

      Thank you for watching. The AI art was the only affordable option since so many visuals were needed due to few photographs being available. I usually get my brother to draw pictures but this one needed too many.

  • @alexcarter8807
    @alexcarter8807 Před měsícem +3

    17:45 AI picture so bad it's kind of good.

    • @adamgwhitaker
      @adamgwhitaker  Před měsícem +1

      I didn't have much of a budget or many pictures to use because of how much time has passed.

    • @Bizzyphazilly
      @Bizzyphazilly Před měsícem

      Always loved Kahn's balls V Louis. Could ya imagine
      Same w Ketchel goin up v Jack I mean that was a suicide wish aykm props, props

  • @ComicPierre
    @ComicPierre Před 8 dny

    How did they introduce Joe first and Conn second?!!

  • @stivs06
    @stivs06 Před měsícem +1

    It’s not the square circle, it’s the square ring!!

    • @TheBatugan77
      @TheBatugan77 Před měsícem +1

      It's called the squared CIRCLE!
      😠😡😠

    • @stivs06
      @stivs06 Před měsícem

      @@TheBatugan77 brain dead

    • @TheBatugan77
      @TheBatugan77 Před 17 dny

      ​@@stivs06👈😡
      BootUpYourAss.

  • @I00kingin
    @I00kingin Před 13 dny

    Con said after losing the first fight that he had been winning by choosing to slug it out with Joe:“What's the sense of being Irish if you can't be dumb?

  • @angelaspanger
    @angelaspanger Před měsícem +2

    wow so much footage and newspaper clips from a billion years ago wasn't he killed by a jealous husband?

    • @Thelategreatjohnnybratton
      @Thelategreatjohnnybratton Před 29 dny

      He was killed by the husband of the woman who was making him breakfast

    • @jerrymccoy1947
      @jerrymccoy1947 Před 20 dny

      Back in the 70s, I read that Mr Ketchel was caught screwing a farmer's wife, and killed by the husband.

  • @ididthisonpulpous6526
    @ididthisonpulpous6526 Před 17 dny

    Some of the AI art is kind of low key horror material... Melting faces and 13 fingers stuff...

  • @Jim-du5yp
    @Jim-du5yp Před měsícem +1

    Great documentary... ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐...Thanks 👍....Subscribed ...

  • @anthonyocarroll5630
    @anthonyocarroll5630 Před 15 dny

    What about my uncle Freddy Mills

  • @ArchieThomas3seesea
    @ArchieThomas3seesea Před 20 dny

    Nat Flessieur did not consider Ali as one of the ten best heavyweight chaperons.

  • @Ondolite
    @Ondolite Před 18 dny +1

    Papke fought in g- string!!

  • @joecurmaci5880
    @joecurmaci5880 Před 12 dny

    In the greatest fighter of all time above Sam Langford and many other great riders is the Russian fighter Fedor emelianenko

  • @pdm2201
    @pdm2201 Před 28 dny

    After Johnson knocked Ketchel down he is seen
    flicking Ketchels teeth off his glove.

    • @adamgwhitaker
      @adamgwhitaker  Před 21 dnem

      He does swipe at his glove, but I couldn't tell if he was knocking teeth off, as the story goes, or just clearing away dirt he picked up from the knockdown. I do mention it later as being one of the claims around the fight.

  • @khemchee4685
    @khemchee4685 Před měsícem

    Looks like Connor Mcgreggor

  • @joecurmaci5880
    @joecurmaci5880 Před 12 dny

    Sam Langford was the greatest American fighter of all time better than Muhammad Ali Mike Tyson Jack Johnson Jack Dempsey was afraid of Sam Langford

  • @TraceyMurray-zg7ih
    @TraceyMurray-zg7ih Před měsícem

    The only reason jack johnson wasn't klled there was a lot of money to be with a white fighter who could beat him otherwise he would have disappeared

  • @jerrymccoy1947
    @jerrymccoy1947 Před 20 dny

    Man, learn how to narrate. You talk too fast, bro. Hard to follow.