Sullivan, John L. (1858-1918)
Bare-knuckle prizefighter John L. Sullivan became a symbol of ethnic pride and working-class masculinity to the nineteenth-century, Irish-American community from which he...
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John Lawrence Sullivan (1858-1918), American boxer, who claimed he could "lick any man on earth," was the last bare-knuckles heavyweight champion.John L. Sullivan was born in Roxbury, Mass., on Oct. 1...
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Sullivan, John L. (1858-1918)
John Lawrence Sullivan