Tom Hyer Beats Yankee Sullivan

Tom Hyer parta patrocinium in American Nudis Knuckle Prizefighting 1841. Sicut maxime prizefighting pugiles saeculi XIX, et non dimicavit persaepe. Hyer solet solvit rogationibus quasi exactor quia factionibus politicis in New York,. Originally, Hyer talenta ad Whigs usus est sed ad fidelitates flectendum “Know Nothing Party” with his friend William “Bill in Butcher” To.

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. Satur cum antics Sullivan, Auctoritates Australiae inceperunt calorem in eum. Sullivan placuit New York melioribus possibilitatibus oblatis.

Cum Catullus venit in Novi Eboraci, multa certamina in Australia pugnasse asseruit (which could not be verified). Sullivan fere statim Hyer pro suo titulo provocavit. IRCA convenerit ad. Pugnaverunt in Stagno adhuc, 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. Pugnatores et secundae litterae pugnabant lictores ut ne comprehensionis.

Sullivan’s and Hyer’s seconds met at 4 p.m. apud Still's Pond. The men fought at 5 p.m. By 5:30 p.m., 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. Hoc solidum iaculat experrectus champion.

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. Iacit erant legalis in nudis tesseras prizefighting. A prospere iactum Northmanni finivit per.

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 editionis 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, et Hyer intumescens circum oculos.

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 in 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, quidam observatores credebant Sullivan a vigilantibus necatum esse, sed nullum verum testimonium prolatum est.

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