The life and crimes of John L Sullivan

John L Sullivan like Young Griffo took up column inches for all the wrong reasons.

In this thread I will outline some of the scandals that dogged him.

 

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An intoxicated John L Sullivan walked off the back of a train in 1896

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The following day his condition was described as critical.

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Sullivan tried his hand at acting and did not take kindly to the critiucisms of the audience.

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Not particularly scandalous but while researching this I discovered that one of John L Sullivans favourit passtimes was making cheese of all things!

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Sullivan drew negative headlines more than once for failure to apear due to drunkenness.

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Alegations of spousal abuse on Sullivans part were often in the gosip columns.

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Sullivans various trials for illegal prizefighting drew media interest.

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Probably.

 

What I am most inteested in here is his relationship with the media and paralels with latter fighters such as Mike Tyson.

 

I do this to put people in Sullivans era and expose them to the gosip that would have been dripped out to them by the press.