Morrissey vs. Sullivan: Fight, Then Feud

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På Oktober 12, 1853, 23 årige John Morrissey skulle träffas 40 åriga “Yankee” Sullivan för den amerikanska och eventuellt världsheavyweight PROFFSBOXNING Championship. Sullivan hade ansetts mästare sedan Tom Hyer, som hade slagit Sullivan tidigare, pensionerad istället för att slåss Sullivan i ett omspel. Sullivan hävdade titeln och stöddes av Hyer, who had made peace with Sullivan.

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Charlie Chan in Dangerous Money (1946)

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Dangerous Money (1946) is the second to last Charlie Chan film starring Sidney Toler from Monogram Pictures. After Sidney Toler’s death, Roland Winters would take over the role for nine more films. This film allows us to appreciate Toler’s portrayal of Inspector Chan for close to the last time. This film was the tenth for Monogram and his twenty-first portrayal

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Tammany Thugs Mord Bill the Butcher

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In July 1854, the World Bareknuckle Prizefighting Champion John Morrissey, who also severed as Tammany Hall enforcer, challenged William “Bill the Butcher” Poole to a no holds barred street fight. The result was a terrible beating and several month recovery for John Morrissey. Morrissey would have likely won a bareknuckle prizefight with Poole, a part-time prizefighter himself. Morrissey made a

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Död av chefen Rat

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William T.”Willie” Egan took over “Egan’s Rats” on the death of his older brother Tom in 1919. Thomas “Snake” Kinney and his childhood friend and brother-in-law Tom Egan formed St. Louis’ criminal organization in the late 1800s. Both Kinney and Tom Egan were saloon keepers and Democratic politicians. They employed “the Rats” for political slugging and other criminal activities. Thomas

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