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John Camel Heenan was known to 19th Century bare knuckle prizefighting fans as “the Benicia Boy”. Despite an 0-1-1 record as a professional fighter, Heenan claimed the World Prizefighting Championship based on a draw with Tom Sayer in an 1860 English prize-fight. Heenan’s first professional fight had been with the reigning World Heavyweight Prizefighting Champion John Morrissey’s last professional fight
Tom Hyer won the American Bare Knuckle Prizefighting Championship in 1841. Like most prizefighting champions of the Nineteenth Century, he did not fight very often. Hyer normally paid his bills as an enforcer for political parties in New York. মূলত, হাইয়ার তার প্রতিভাকে হুইগদের জন্য নিযুক্ত করেছিলেন কিন্তু আনুগত্য পরিবর্তন করবেন “Know Nothing Party” with his friend William
অক্টোবর 12, 1853, 23 year-old John Morrissey would meet 40 year-old “Yankee” Sullivan for the American and possibly World Heavyweight Prizefighting Championship. Sullivan had been considered the champion since Tom Hyer, who had beaten Sullivan previously, retired instead of fighting Sullivan in a rematch. Sullivan claimed the title and was backed by Hyer, who had made peace with Sullivan.
In July 1854, the World Bareknuckle Prizefighting Champion John Morrissey, who also severed as Tammany Hall enforcer, challenged William “বিল বুচার” 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
জুলাই তারিখে 26, 1854, বেয়ার গিঁট চ্যাম্পিয়ন জন Morrissey একটি কোন নিয়ম রাস্তার তোলপাড় মধ্যে মাঝে মধ্যে বেয়ার গিঁট ফাইটার উইলিয়াম Poole পূরণ. কি অনুসরণ জন Morrissey এর জীবনের সবচেয়ে খারাপ পাঁচ মিনিট হবে. অক্টোবর 23, 1853, 22 বছর বয়সী Morrissey একটি বিতর্কিত সিদ্ধান্ত ইন ফোটোস বেয়ার গিঁট চ্যাম্পিয়নশিপ জন্য ইয়াঙ্কি সুলিভান বীট. সুলিভান আসলে আউট Morrissey ছিটকে