Establishment of Lightweight Prize - Fighting in the USA during the 1850s

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  1. scribbs

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    Stumbled over this document and cannot see it's been posted after using search function. I have not read it yet as literally spotted in last 2 minutes but looks interesting.

    States to give info on prize fighters such as: Patrick Brannigan, James Hart, John Monaghan, Charley Lynch, and ‘Young’ Barney Aaron stating it laid the foundation for American lightweight prize fighting in subsequent decades.

    “Tough Little Specimens of the lightweight order:”The Establishment of Lightweight Prize Fighting in the United States during the 1850s

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  2. Senya13

    Senya13 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    While the Clipper's input cannot be denied, but there were other publications that were doing the same before the Clipper was established. New York's Spirit of the Times was regularly printing boxing-related stuff (including re-prints from Bell's Life in London) since 1840s, although I haven't had the time to sort it out (whatever issues are available at Fulton History). Also, I'm not sure Timony was the author of the American Fistiana, although he had done great work in making the Sullivan-Hyer fight, when he was the "fighting editor" of National Police Gazette in mid-1848-early 1849.
     
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