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Mike Jacobs (boxing) Michael Strauss Jacobs (March 17, 1880 – January 1953) was a boxing promoter, arguably the most powerful in the sport from the mid-1930s until his effective retirement in 1946. [1] He was posthumously elected to the World Boxing Hall of Fame in 1982, [2] and the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1990.
Following in the footsteps of Tex Rickard, Mike Jacobs ruled as the dominant boxing promoter of the 1930s and '40s. Born in New York City in 1880, Jacobs came from a poor family and went to work as a boy, selling newspapers and candy on Coney Island excursion boats. Noticing that ticket purchases for the boats were often confusing to ...
Long-time promoter for Madison Square Garden. He staged 320 shows there from 1937-1949. Also promoted boxing shows at the St. Nicholas Arena. Before then, he had staged shows at the old Hippodrome on Sixth Avenue. Jacobs's promotional company was the Twentieth Century Sporting Club.
Sep 20, 2018 · Mike Jacobs’s critics said he was ruthless, heartless, greedy, ill-tempered, and uncouth. His admirers said the same things but would’ve added unscrupulous and two-faced. These attributes helped make Jacobs the most powerful promoter in boxing from the mid-1930s to the late 1940s. They also earned him such nicknames as “Monopoly Mike ...
Sport: Boxing. Inducted: 1993. Country: United States. Born: March 10, 1880, in New York, New York. Died: January 1953. Mike Jacobs was the world’s top boxing promoter from 1935 to 1949, when he sold his boxing empire. During his reign as president of the Twentieth Century Sporting Club, he controlled the champions of every division.
Mike Jacobs (boxing) Michael Strauss Jacobs (March 17, 1880 – January 1953) was a boxing promoter, arguably the most powerful in the sport from the mid-1930s until his effective retirement in 1946. He was posthumously elected to the World Boxing Hall of Fame in 1982, and the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1990. The czar of all Boxing in ...
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Michael Strauss Jacobs (“Uncle Mike”) was a U.S. boxing promoter, member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame and World Boxing Hall of Fame. Strauss was one of 10 children born in New York’s Greenwich Village to immigrants Isaac and Rachel (Strauss). His family was poor, forcing Jacobs to work as a boy selling newspapers and candy on ...
