In answer to the original question I would still go along with Dutch Sam as the greatest pound for pound fighter across the bareknuckle era from...
Accepted that Slack's recognized record probably does not show all his fights, like many fighters of the bareknuckle era because of the lack of...
Langham only suffered one defeat and that was at the hands of a recognized top heavyweight Harry Orme and then it still took Orme 117 rounds to...
Slack was supposed to be a sly old sod, probably as crude a fighter as the many of the others of that time who was supposed to have invented a...
Dutch Sam, a light to middleweight of the early 1800's was described by Pearce Egan of Pugilistica fame to have probably been the greatest pound...
Thanks Meast, thats some great information, I don't know if he had anymore fights in the States or came back to England as I cannot find anymore...
Does anyone know where I can find a report on the fight for the Lightweight Championship of America between Billy Edwards and Tim Collins held on...
Looking for reports on any of these fights: Harry Sellars v. Joe Hood (1777) Bill Neat v. Jonathan Bissell (1821) Jonathan Bissell v. Reuben...
I have been messing around with a couple of books now - one about the generally recognized champions in all weight divisions of the English...
I also think Jem Belcher possessed probably the greatest talent in the openweight class in the what was called the Golden Age of bareknuckle...
In the book about Jem Mace by Graham Gordon "Master of the Ring" Ned O'Baldwin was not rated highly by Mace. His recorded ring record is not that...
