It was the evening of September 21, 1880, and the Boston crowd was hungry for a fight. They’d each paid $2 for the chance to squeeze into Hub City Gym, a famous boxing gymnasium at 24 Franklin Street.
Boxing was the most popular organized sport in 18th-century England, then the world center of boxing. The sport also was popular in America but comparatively underdeveloped, as Elliott Gorn writes in ...
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