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Originally Posted by TBooze
BBB of C Yearbook 2006; page 253; Early gloved championship boxing the 'true' facts by Harold Alderman
30 May 1892: Peter Jackson WCO10 Frank Slavin
"Slavin was billed as world champion and holder of the Richard K Fox Police Gazette Championship belt"
Page 254
25th November 1896:
"The Mirror of Life stated Peter Jackson is the World Heavyweight Champion"
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By lineage rights the Police Gazette title belonged to Sullivan, since he beat Kilrain for it. From thence, Corbett. Then again, Fox never took to Sullivan, so he likely stripped him.