1884
Jun 7 Jack Campbell San Francisco, Ca EX 4
Jun 14 Jack Campbell San Francisco, Ca WF 10
-Featherweight Championship of the Pacific Coast
Jun 20 Jack Campbell San Francisco, Ca EX 3
Jun 27 Tom Carroll San Francisco, Ca W
Jul 12 Tom Carroll San Francisco, Ca KO 4
Jul 27 Jack Campbell Berkeley, Ca EX 3
Aug Jim Johnson San Francisco, Ca KO 3
Jack Campbell D 8
Sep Charles Kohler San Francisco, Ca KO 1
Oct 24 Frank Frayne San Francisco, Ca KO 3
-Some sources report Lightweight Championship of the Pacific Coast
Nov 17 Jack Campbell San Francisco, Ca EX 4
Dec 16 Jack Campbell San Francisco, Ca EX 4
Dec 30 Jack Campbell San Francisco, Ca EX 4
1885
Jan 21 Jack Campbell San Francisco, Ca EX 4
Jan 26 Jack Campbell San Francisco, Ca EX 4
Jan 30 Jack Campbell San Francisco, Ca EX 4
Feb 14 Jack Campbell San Francisco, Ca EX 4
Mar 10 Jim Boyd San Francisco, Ca KO 4
Mar 13 Jack Campbell San Francisco, Ca EX 4
Apr 3 Jim Carr San Francisco, Ca EX 4
Apr 22 Pete O'Brien San Francisco, Ca KO 8
May 29 Robert "Cocky" Turnbull San Francisco, Ca KO 7
Jun 22 Jack Keenan San Francisco, Ca KO 35
-Featherweight Championship of the United States;
Featherweight Championship of the Pacific Coast;
Some sources report 7/22/1885
Nov 29 Billy Hamilton San Rafael, Ca SCH
-This bout was scheduled but postponed; Police intervened
Nov 30 Billy Hamilton Berkeley, Ca KO 11
-Police intervened; Some sources report "ND 11"
Dec 1 Billy Hamilton Alviso, Ca KO 23
1886
Mar 13 Billy Hamilton Berkeley, Ca KO 9
Sep 10 Tom Cleary San Francisco, Ca KO 7
-Reports vary - "KO 7" - "KO 12"
Nov Jack Keenan W
-Perhaps, this is the same as the 6/22/1885 bout?
Dec 3 Billy Hamilton San Francisco, Ca SCH
-This bout was scheduled; The outcome is not known
1887
Jan 23 Martin "Buffalo" Costello Honolulu, Oahu, Hi EX 4
Jan 31 Dago Frank on board the ship, Alameda KO 4
Mar 14 "Torpedo" Billy Murphy Sydney, NSW, Aus KO 5
-Some sources report "KO 4" on 3/18/1887
Apr 12 Jack Hall Sydney, NSW, Aus D 47
-Lightweight Championship of Australia;
A "draw" was agreed upon after 47 rounds
May 24 Jack Malloy Sydney, NSW, Aus D 36
Jun Sam Jones Newcastle, NSW, Aus KO 3
Jun Bill Powell Wallsend, NSW, Aus KO 3
Jul 4 Martin "Buffalo" Costello Ballarat, Vic, Aus EX 6
Sep 3 Peter Boland Albury, NSW, Aus D 40
-Some sources report 8/07/1887;
Some sources report "D 4";
The men fought in a blinding rain storm
Sep 24 Peter Boland Melbourne, Vic, Aus ND 6
-Some sources report 8/27/87 and "D 6"
Oct 15 Peter Boland Melbourne, Vic, Aus ND 6
-Some sources report "KO 4"
Nov 7 Barney Donovan Auckland, NZ KO 4
-Some sources report "ND 4"
1888
Jun 28 Tom Cleary San Francisco, Ca KO 30
Jun 29 J.W. Geogan San Francisco, Ca EX 4
Jul 28 Tom Cleary San Francisco, Ca EX 4
Dec 5 Paddy Gorman San Francisco, Ca KO 27
-Welterweight Championship of the Pacific Coast
Dec 22 Billy Shannon San Francisco, Ca EX 4
1889
Feb 9 Billy Shannon San Francisco, Ca EX 4
Mar 13 Sailor Brown San Francisco, Ca KO 21
-Middleweight Championship of the Pacific Coast
Mar -Mitchell and Walter Watson opened the "Sportsman's Point"
in San Francisco; A saloon in which they performed boxing
instruction
Mar George LaBlanche San Francisco, Ca SCH
-This bout was scheduled; The outcome is not known
May 27 Denny Kelliher Boston, Ma ND 4
-Some sources report "W 4"
May 31 -Mitchell seconded Jack Havlin vs Frank Griffin at Boston, Ma
Jul 15 Billy Shannon San Francisco, Ca EX 4
Oct 29 Johnny Reagan San Francisco, Ca SCH
-This bout was scheduled but not held; Reagan was ill
Nov 7 -Mitchell announced he wanted to fight "Nonpareil"
Jack Dempsey; Dempsey taught Mitchell much of what
he knew; They had been great friends
1890
Tom Gleason San Francisco, Ca D
Aug John "Jack" Burke Seattle, Wa KO 3
Aug Dan Murphy Seattle, Wa KO 3
Aug Billy West Tacoma, Wa KO 3
1891
Feb 20 George LaBlanche San Francisco, Ca KO 12
-This fight was determined to be a fake;
The purse was withheld; Prior to the bout,
LaBlanche wrote to a friend to bet on Mitchell;
No evidence was found against Mitchell
Sep 23 Patrick "Reddy" Gallagher San Francisco, Ca KO 13
-Some sources report a knock out because Gallagher was unable
to continue after thirteen rounds; Others say Gallagher was out
cold; Peter Jackson was the referee; The fight was for $5,000
with $750 to loser
Oct 16 "Nonpareil" Jack Dempsey San Francisco, Ca EX 4
Nov 9 "Nonpareil" Jack Dempsey Portland, Or EX 6
-This bout was held during Nov 9-12 1891
Nov Jim O'Brien Portland, Or KO 3
Nov 16 "Nonpareil" Jack Dempsey Brooklyn, NY EX
Nov 16 "Nonpareil" Jack Dempsey Brooklyn, NY EX
-The previous 2 bouts were held the same date
Nov 18 "Nonpareil" Jack Dempsey Brooklyn, NY SCH
Nov 19 "Nonpareil" Jack Dempsey Brooklyn, NY SCH
-The previous 2 bouts were scheduled but not held;
Dempsey was ill
Nov 19 "Brooklyn" Jimmy Carroll Brooklyn, NY SCH
-Mitchell was scheduled to meet Carroll during
Nov 19-21 1891 since Dempsey was ill; The
outcomes are not known
Nov 23 "Nonpareil" Jack Dempsey Philadelphia, Pa EX
Dec Billy Dacey Brooklyn, NY KO 2
Dec Tom Leary Brooklyn, NY KO 4
Dec "Brooklyn" Jimmy Carroll Brooklyn, NY EX 4
Dec Charlie Norton New York, NY TK 1
-Some sources report "Newark, NJ";
Some sources report "W 1"
Dec Ed Fitzgerald Newark, NJ KO 3
Dec Jack McGinn Newark, NJ KO 3
Dec Fred Woods Philadelphia, Pa W 1
-Some sources report "KO 1"
Dec Jim Broad Baltimore, Md KO 3
1892
Mar 8 Gus Herget San Francisco, Ca EX 3
Mar 12 "Mysterious" Billy Smith San Francisco, Ca EX 3
Oct Billy Leedom San Francisco, Ca SCH
-This bout was scheduled but postponed; It was eventually cancelled
1893
Jan 30 -George LaBlanche admitted he faked a loss to Mitchell
in San Francisco, Ca (1891)
Apr 1 Funny Jones Philadelphia, Pa SCH
-This bout was scheduled; The outcome is not known
Sep 26 Billy Shannon San Francisco, Ca EX 4
Dec 1 "Australian" Jim Ryan Oakland, Ca D 8
-Police intervened
1894
Feb 9 -Mitchell and Jack McAuliffe got into a street fight in San Francisco, Ca
Joe Bernstein TK 2
Dec 29 Fred Woods Philadelphia, Pa ND
1897
Mar 21 -Mitchell got into a tavern fight with "Mysterious"Billy Smith
*** Photos And Much Data Provided By Bill Schutte ***
Review courtesy of
Tracy Callis,
Historian, International Boxing Research Organization
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