Great Outdoor Fight 1902

From The Great Outdoor Fight

The 1902 Fight is remembered chiefly for the partial flooding of the Acres, though conditions were mild compared to the infamous 1880 Fight. A groundsman (it has never been determined who) accidentally left a hose running within the Acres. By the time it was discovered early on the third day, the Acres had become a sea of mud dotted with puddles, some of them the size of small ponds and more than knee deep. This lapse brought about one of the more unique dispatches in Fight history when 1898 Champion Edmundo Swabey, in his comeback, strangled 24 men with the hose before being drowned by Russian martial artist Habark Sidorets in a sleight of hand move involving the incapacitation of Swabey and the simultaneous forcing of the offending hose down his throat. Sidorets would in turn be defeated by Filiberto Del Buzzard, who managed to pin him with his head under water. Due to his impressive lung capacity, Sidorets continued to struggle for almost six minutes before finally running out of air.