What one ability distinguished Boston Tom McMustache...

All I can find is a brief reference in the archives quoting Stewart 'Stewarty' Steward*that says the fight was "the spitting image of the 83rd round draw between Lucky Sambo and Jigger Alcatraz held in this very Turkish bath".

 

Look you amateur I will give you his early career:

18/3/1854 Boston Street avenue arena (att. Ms McMustache and his step Mother Janice Sullivan Corbett Jeffries) D35 Game Turkey

24/9/1854 The New Boston Street avenue arena (att. 3, Ms McMustache lets Mr McMustache Snr watch) KO4 James Figgy Bigg


10/2/1855 The all new Street avenue arena, Boston (att. 6) KO8 Escapee from Alcatraz (the first gay fighter)

 

While this angle was used to promote their most widely known and largely attended fight, it fails to underscore the fact that McMustache and Gypsy had previous fought 13 times over the two years prior on The Saloon Circuit before crowds of 20-100 people. The official tally favors McMustache, having gone 1-0-12, although Gypsy was rumored to have taken a dive in his loss in order to acquire two mules for his mother's ranch in Oklahoma. While on The Circuit, Gypsy fought exclusively under the "Chang" moniker and entered the ring via rickshaw pulled by his younger brother and right hand man, Bobby, who failed to match Gypsy's ring successes.

In a twist perpetuated in order to cash in, Vazquez would adopt the name "Gypsy" for his final and most important fight with Boston. Following the match, again rumored to be a dive, Gypsy retired and attempted to move south to save his mother's ranch. Tragically, his carriage was attacked by Cheyenne Indians near the Missouri River en route to the ranch. Ironically, Gypsy was 3/4 Cheyenne himself, had his attackers been made aware of this he would have been welcomed as a brother. True to form, Vazquez insisted that he was Romani and promptly executed. Bobby revealed his true pedigree and was spared without a scratch.

 

Early in his career Boston Tom, blacked-out drunk, publicly cleaned his nethers with a copy of the Police Gazette at the wedding of his eager friend and greatest fan, Richard Fox. On that very day, Fox laid down the iron clad declaration that Boston Tom's name would never appear in the Gazette's pages, and every available copy previously containing it would be sought out and burned.

A lesser known publication by and for rougher company, The Plug Uglies Gazette, had Tom at the top of their bare knuckled, no holds barred ranking for the better part of three decades.

 

Thank you. That's some solid research.

we're lucky to know of the man at all.