Bare fists : the history of bare-knuckle prize-fighting /
A history of bare-knuckle prize-fighting and its champions traces its origins, its heydey in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the development of the Marquess of Queensbury Rules that saw the end of the sport.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Woodstock, N.Y. :
Overlook Press,
2001.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Online Access: | Book review (H-Net) |
Table of Contents:
- 1 Out of Time 1
- 2 Life After Figg 10
- 3 The Golden Years 29
- 4 Belcher, Pearce, Gully and Cribb 48
- 5 The Fancy, the Patrons and Pierce Egan 67
- 6 A New Generation 72
- 7 Slow, Painful Decline 98
- 8 The Tipton Slasher 116
- 9 The United States of America 129
- 10 Fight of the Century 140
- 11 Last of the Breed--The Swaffham Gipsy 163
- 12 Looking for America 174
- 13 John L. Sullivan 180
- 14 A Lingering Shadow 199
- 15 Hard Men 215.