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Boxing had been banned in most English cities and towns by the middle of the 19th century, Tom Hyer, billed as "the Great American Hope," came to the rescue.

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American Tom Hyer went 101 rounds with George "Country McCluskey" McChester aon I believe when boxing was ripe in the 1800s fighter used to box upto 25

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Colored print of two men (New York native Tom "Young America" Hyer and the Irish immigrant James "Yankee" Sullivan) fighting bare-fisted in a boxing ring.

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Boxing, after all, had close associations with such unsavoury practices as drinking and gambling. Tom Hyer, John Morrissey, and John Heenan.

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Boxing became popular in 1849 when Tom Hyer and Yankee Sullivan fought. Hyers's victory was the first sports story ever wired over the telegraph to a newspaper.

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Mary, Emma Beke was from Maine, and married Tom Hyer who was the bare-fisted boxing champion of the world around 1850. Talk to me on my email:

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In America in 1816 the first boxing match was held with British boxing rules between Jacob Hyer and Tom Beasley. It was twenty years later that,

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In Clohissey's window a faded 1860 print of Heenan boxing Sayers held his eye. which was contested by Tom Hyer (who fought under the red, white,