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John L. Sullivan (1858 – 1918), also known as the Boston Strong Boy […] is generally recognized as the last heavyweight champion of bare-knuckle boxing. He was the first American sports hero to become a national celebrity and the first American athlete to earn over one million dollars.
“When I started out boxing,” he wrote, “I felt within myself, as I do now, that I could knock out any man living.”
Sullivan’s fame was enormous. In what has always best illustrated, to me, the term degrees of separation a popular phrase of his time was “I shook the hand that shook the hand of John Sullivan.”
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John L. Sullivan (1858 – 1918), also known as the Boston Strong Boy […] is generally recognized as the last heavyweight champion of bare-knuckle boxing. He was the first American sports hero to become a national celebrity and the first American athlete to earn over one million dollars.
“When I started out boxing,” he wrote, “I felt within myself, as I do now, that I could knock out any man living.”
Sullivan’s fame was enormous. In what has always best illustrated, to me, the term degrees of separation a popular phrase of his time was “I shook the hand that shook the hand of John Sullivan.”
image via Partisan NYC
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