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Book Review
Famous Pugilists of the English Prize Ring 1719-1870
By Mick Hill
The Fast-Print Bookshop 2012 - (www.fast-print.net/bookshop)
225pp £13.99 + £1.95 PP - Paperback ISBN: 9781780355054
Famous Pugilists of the English Prize Ring details the lives, ring records and illustrations of nearly eighty well
known fighters from the era of bare-knuckle prize-fighting from the Champions of England to the acclaimed
champions and contenders of the lighter weights.
This book is included here because it has details of the fight between Tom Cribb and Tom Molyneux at
Thistleton Gap on the Rutland border in 1811.
Robert Ovens