Since @rushcuttersbox is doing Teddy Roosevelt's boxing abilities posts, here's a young Teddy and a great boxing story! 

A young 19 year old Teddy Roosevelt at Harvard University. He was a wrestler and boxer during this time at college, and even during the Presidency he’d spar with younger White House guards. 

His boxing capabilities came in handy in 1884 when he was in Mingusville, Montana. He went into a bar and a man yelled out at him mocking his glasses, saying how “Four eyes is going to treat us all to a round”. 

Roosevelt laughed it off and sat down but the man was relentless, having a gun in each hand and swearing at Roosevelt. Teddy got up and said, “Well if I’ve got to I got to”. He then punched the man several times in the jaw and the man fired off his gun missing Roosevelt. The man fell to the ground knocked out and hit his head on the corner of the bar. Roosevelt de-armed him and the man left town that morning.