Tom Hyer Beats Yankee Sullivan

Tom Hyer vann American Bare hnúi Prizefighting Championship í 1841. Eins og flestum prizefighting meistarar nítjándu aldar, hann ekki berjast mjög oft. Hyer venjulega greiða reikninga sína sem Enforcer fyrir stjórnmálaflokka í New York. Upphaflega, Hyer nýtti hæfileika sína fyrir Whigs en myndi skipta um trúnað við “Veit ekkert Party” with his friend William “Bill Butcher” Að.

38-year-old Yankee Sullivan was born James Ambrose in Ireland but grew up in London’s East End. After receiving a twenty year sentence in Australia, of which he served eight, Sullivan organized a gang. Fékk nóg af uppátækjum Sullivans, Ástralsk yfirvöld fóru að setja hita á hann. Sullivan ákvað að New York byði upp á betri möguleika.

Þegar Sullivan kom til New York, hann sagðist hafa háð marga verðlaunabardaga í Ástralíu (which could not be verified). Sullivan skoraði næstum strax á Hyer um titil sinn. Samkomulag var samþykkt. Mennirnir börðust í Still Pond, Maryland on February 7, 1849. Prizefighting was illegal, so they had to move the bout once as they just avoided an army of policemen sent by Maryland authorities. Bardagamennirnir og sekúndur þeirra börðust bókstaflega við lögreglumennina til að komast undan handtöku.

Sullivan’s and Hyer’s seconds met at 4 p.m. við Still's Pond. The men fought at 5 p.m. Með 5:30 kvöldi, Hyer had successfully defended his title.

Sullivan started out strong. Observers had Sullivan winning the first three round handily. Sullivan scored the first knockdown at the end of the third with a blow to Hyer’s neck. Þetta trausta skot vakti meistarann.

Hyer picked up the pace and drew first blood. While both Hyer’s eyes were swollen, Hyer seriously injured Sullivan’s right eye. Hyer also threw Sullivan a couple of times. Köst voru lögleg í verðlaunabardaga með berum hnúum. Vel heppnað kast endaði venjulega lotu.

The February air was very cold, so neither fighter was taking much rest. They seemed determined to keep the fight going and rested little between rounds.

Hyer twisted Sullivan’s right arm in the fifteenth round but his most damaging tactic was not letting Sullivan fall. Hyer realized that Sullivan was injured in the sixteenth round. As Sullivan started to fall to end the round, Hyer caught him and trapped Sullivan’s head under his arm.

Hyer held Sullivan up as he pummeled him with powerful blow after blow. When Sullivan became to heavy for Hyer to hold up, he released Yankee’s limp body. Sullivan was unable to come back to the scratch in time delivering the victory to Hyer.

According to the February 17, 1849 útgáfa af Sunbury American (Sunbury, Pennsylvania) Sullivan had to be carried from the ring by his supporters, while Champion Hyer quickly bundled up and took a boat back to Frenchtown. Sullivan’s face showed the full effect of the battle, á meðan Hyer var með bólgu í kringum augun.

Hyer and Sullivan quickly returned to New York to avoid arrest. They also buried the hatchet. When Hyer retired in 1851 without fighting again, Sullivan claimed the title. Hyer and “Bill Butcher” backed Sullivan in his battle with John Morrissey, a prizefighter and Tammany Hall enforcer.

After the end of his prizefighting career, Sullivan travelled to San Francisco, where he became an enforcer for the local political machine. He committed suicide or was killed while in the custody of the San Francisco Vigilance Committee in 1856.

According to newspaper reports, he slit his wrist with a knife brought with his dinner on July 1, 1856. Due to Sullivan’s death in Vigilance Committee custody, sumir eftirlitsmenn töldu að Sullivan hefði verið drepinn af útrásarvíkingum en engar raunverulegar sannanir voru nokkru sinni framleiddar.

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