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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. Awali, HYER walioajiriwa vipaji yake kwa Whigs lakini bila kubadili visasi kwa “Know Nothing Party” with his friend William
Mnamo Oktoba 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.
Julai 1854, Dunia Bareknuckle Prizefighting Champion John Morrissey, ambaye pia mmejitenga kama Tammany Hall enforcer, changamoto William “Bill Butcher” Poole hakuna ana kuzuiliwa na anwani ya kupambana. Matokeo yake ni ya kutisha kumpiga na mwezi kadhaa ahueni kwa John Morrissey. Morrissey would have likely won a bareknuckle prizefight with Poole, a part-time prizefighter himself. Morrissey made a
Julai 26, 1854, wazi kifundo cha bingwa John Morrissey alikutana mara kwa mara wazi kifundo cha fighter William Poole katika sheria hakuna anwani ya rabsha. Nini ikifuatiwa itakuwa mbaya zaidi ya dakika tano ya maisha John Morrissey ya. Mnamo Oktoba 23, 1853, 22 mwenye umri wa miaka Morrissey kuwapiga Yankee Sullivan kwa dunia tupu kifundo cha michuano ya mwaka uamuzi mgogoro. Sullivan kweli knocked Morrissey nje