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Posts about 19th Century bare knuckle prizefighting.
John Camel Heenan was known to 19th Century bare knuckle prizefighting fans as “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. Původně, Hyer využil svůj talent pro Whigy, ale přešel na věrnost “Know Nothing Party” with his friend William
Října 12, 1853, 23 letý John Morrissey se setkat 40 letý “Yankee” Sullivan pro americkou a možná World Heavyweight Prizefighting šampionát. Sullivan byl považován vítěz od Toma Hyer, který porazil Sullivan dříve, odešel místo boje Sullivana v zápase. Sullivan prohlásil titul a byl podpořen 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 “Bill Řezník” 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
Července 26, 1854, holé koleno mistr John Morrissey se setkal občas holé koleno stíhací William Poole v žádná pravidla pouliční rvačce. To, co následovalo by být nejhorší pět minut John Morrissey života. Října 23, 1853, the 22-year-old Morrissey beat Yankee Sullivan for the world bare knuckle championship in a disputed decision. Sullivan actually knocked Morrissey out