Historians To have the First Documentated statements on Bulldogs History and bull fighting dogs have to search in the Middle Age, when the Bulldog Names were Bondogge or Bolddogge. These English Bulldog Names as Bandogges were used also by William Shakespeare in Theatral Works, called Henry VI. The First Time in which we find out the Documented Name Bulldog is by Prestwick Eaton, around 1632, when wrote a letter from spain to his Friend in england , asking for 2 Bulldogs, as a Gift. The British Bulldog were prone to combat and were already populars in england. In the 18th Century this Story of a Murdered, the sport of Baiting, spread like wildfire, to bite and hold bulls was so common to become immensely popular in Tudor times, a typical entertainment english sport. There are documents and statements describing how the bully-type dogs were trained and where the sport of baiting were organized and played, usually in the English Stadiums that were Called Arenas. To provide details and facts, the Bulldog Baiting Arenas had a Circular Form and the Bull was Chiend in the Centre of the Arena with a 23m. Cord. The Rules of the Bulldog Sport were Developing and Evolving, as we can understand analyzing the Bulldog Painting and the Bulldog Drawings of the Age. The Fighting Bulldog was not 1 Bulldog as in the Beginning of the Bull Bait Epopea, there were more Fighting Bulldogs till the Bulldog Sport lost Popularity in England also because of the Diffusion of the Fighting between 2 Dogs. The British Animal Act of 1835 stopped the long-practiced sport and any Animal Fighting cruel bloodsport or Forms of baiting in England, but we know that the Bulldog Breed was an endangered dog breed almost a Dog Extinted Breed already in 1824. In the 1824 in England people told that with the Death of Billy and Wasp by the Duke of Hamilton Bloodline the Bulldog Breed would become one of the Dog Exinted Breeds.
This is the Official Bulldog History. The Origins of Molosser Breed Dogs. A Long time Ago, in Asia there were a Pure Breed Dogs selection to get a Very Big Pure Breed Dog with a Shorter Muzzle and Very Big Dog Heads to Bite Strongest, The Fighting Dogs. The Molosser Dog Breeds Character had to be very Corageous. In the 6th Century Before Christ the Phoenicians Brought this Mollosser Dog Breed to the Mediterranean Coast and to North Europe coast, as well England Coast. The British People mixed The Molosser Dog Breeds with British Dog Breeds to get the Warlike Britons used as a Fighter Dogs in Wars. Anyway this would seem to be The History of all English Mastiffs, than the Specific Bulldog History. During the Middle Age in England the English Butchers had the Use to Kill the Bulls with Bull Dogs to Show to the People the Fresh Quality of the Meats. Lord Stamford taking a Ride saw the Butcher Bulldog Killing a Bull and he decided that every year 6 weeks before Christmas the Butchers has to Organize a Public Bull Dog Show in the Town Square. This Bulldog Show, the Bulldog Fighing, became Very Popular in England with the Name of Bull Baiting.
The first Dog Show happened in 28/29 of the 1859 in June in the English Town of Newcastle-on-Tyne only for Setters and Pointers. On the 3/4 December of 1860 was Organized the First Bulldog Expo Championship, the First Bulldog Champion had the Bulldog Name of King Dick, who was the First Bulldog to get the Title of English Champion. By the Bulldog King Dick Bloodline born Bulldog Crib who never lost Bulldog Expos because was Judged near to the Perfection. All the King Dick Bloodline was full of the Best Bulldog Champions of the Modern History of the Bulldog Breed.Anyway this Bulldog Champions became Famous Bulldog Champions very Unlucky because they die when they were Young Bulldogs because of too much Travels in England and mostly outside England.
In 1864 Samuel Wickens, under the Name of Philo Kuon, wrote the First Dog Breed Standard describing the Ideal Bulldog. In 1865 were founded a Bulldog Breeders Association under the Name of Bulldog Club. The National Dog Breeders Association was founded in London on 1873 with the Name of Kennel Club. In 1875 was founded in London another Bulldog Breeder Association who took the place of the Bulldog Club with the Name of Bulldog Club Incorporated who is still the N.1 Bulldog Club and an Active Bulldog Breeders Association. The Bulldog Club Inc. organize the Most Important Bulldog Championships in UK as the Bulldog of the Year. Nel 1892 were fouded in Manchester the British Bulldog Club. The Original Bulldog Club Bloodline of all the Bulldog Pictures in this Bulldog Webasite belong by Tuffnuts Snow Angel. The Tuffnuts Bulldog Affix was the Official Affix of the Secretary and President of the British Bulldog Club Mr. Les Thorpe. Both Bulldog Club Inc and British Bulldog Club organize every year very importants Bulldog Expos with their own Bulldog Championships.
Bulldogs Bull Baiting History: The Bulldogs Bull Baiting History is around the Development of the Rules of this English Sport and to the Bulldog Evolution of the English Bulldog Breeders to Develop the Perfect Bull Dog for Bull Baiting. This Bulldog Selections find their End in the finish of the 18th Century when the Bulldog Number in England started to fall down fastly.
Bulldog Champions History: We already have Many Bulldog Champions who era in Famous Paintings and now they are part of the Bulldog Art, English Bulldog Champions near the Bulldog Perfection as Crib, Billy, Rosa and Wasp. With a Bulldog Expo the first Bulldog Champion of England was Eng. Ch. King Dick with his Bulldog Blood Line Descendents as Eng. Ch. Crib, Eng. Ch. Michael, Eng. Ch. Romanie. We have to say that while one English Bulldog Breeders Blood Line went to an Ipertypic Bulldog called Show Bulldog who was the result of the Dog Breeds mix between the Pure Breed Bulldog and the Pug, a Strict Number of Bulldog Lovers was remaining thinking that the Bulldog was the Pure Breed Bulldog how it was before to be mixed with Pugs and Mastiff Breeds. The Cross between Bulldog and Pugs gave an Ipertypic Dog with the Legs too shorts respect to the Bulldog Size and the Muzzle too short respect to the Bulldog Head Dimension, so started the Bulldog Health Genetical Problems as Jiont Deseases or Brachycefalic Sindrom, also the Cross between the Bulldog with Mastiffs gave Bones too Heavy. So the Pure Bulldog was with Lightest Bones, Higher Legs with a not so Short Muzzle, called Bulldog Prognatism. The most Famous Bulldog Champions of the 20th Century were Eng. Ch. Peter Beautiful and Eng. Ch. Allithorne Resolution, who arrived to presents in English Kennel Club Pedigrees of almost all the Bulldog Champions of England until the finish of the 20th Century. Eng. Ch. Peter Beautiful and Eng. Ch. Allithorne Resolution were born around the Second World War. Eng. Ch. Peter Beautiful was similar to the Show Bulldogs and was judged more a Feminine Bulldog while Ch. Allithorne Resolution had a Bulldog Flat Front and was more similar to the Pure Breed Bulldog and was Judged as a more Masculine Bulldog respect to the other Bulldog Champion. Because of this reason the more Famous Bulldog Stud of the English Bulldogs History was that one between the Eng. Ch Peter Beatiful Daughter with the Eng. Ch. Allithorne Resolution Son. This Bulldog Litter become the most important Bulldog Litter of the English Bulldogs History from whom they started the Official Kennel Club Pedigrees of almost all the Modern Bulldog Champions in England.
Fighting Bulldogs History I think that the Bulldog Breeders Selection arrived to have a Perfect Fighting Bull Dog with a Specific Genetical Morphological Development just to Win with Bulls as well the Bulldog Character. The Istinct of the Bulldogs lost the Middle Age Bloody Temperament to become a Specific Bull Baiter. We Know that a Famous Bull Biter Champion Bulldog won more the 100 Bulldog Attacks against the Bull without never loose.