IRELAND & AMERICA'S VERY OWN * Joseph Bolton Knipe * FIRST TRAINER of Freddie Welsh & Joe Jennette...learned from a MASTER...KNIPE was well known to have the Greatest Jab...he opened a school in NYC...it was there Freddie Welsh got his start, training, bouts & together with Joe Jennette they were sent to Philadelphia and the rest is boxing history.
By 1904, Dr. Joseph B. Knipe had boxed with nearly all of the great pugilists, including "Kid McCoy" Fitzsimmons & Choynski. He had opened a school of "Physical Culture at 84 Franklin Street, Manhattan" & trained hundreds if not thousands of boxers...Freddie Welsh & Joe Jennette were some of his greatest achievements...Knipe was a true Master of the Art of Boxing.
IRELAND & AMERICA'S VERY OWN * Joseph Bolton Knipe * FIRST TRAINER of Freddie Welsh & Joe Jennette...learned from a MASTER...KNIPE was well known to have the Greatest Jab...he opened a school in NYC...it was there Freddie Welsh got his start, training, bouts & together with Joe Jennette they were sent to Philadelphia and the rest is boxing history.
By 1904, Dr. Joseph B. Knipe had boxed with nearly all of the great pugilists, including "Kid McCoy" Fitzsimmons & Choynski. He had opened a school of "Physical Culture at 84 Franklin Street, Manhattan" & trained hundreds if not thousands of boxers...Freddie Welsh & Joe Jennette were some of his greatest achievements...Knipe was a true Master of the Art of Boxing.
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