Paul Sorrells

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The best prizefighters in the 1880s and 1890s were Irish. John L. Sullivan, the heavyweight champion from 1882 to 1892, legitimized the Queensbury rules and became the most famous American athlete of his era.
The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 (Oxford History of the United States)
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