Mitchell is honored as the first man to survive the Boston Strong Boy1888 Ornate Boxing Belt Presented to Charley Mitchell after Fighting John L. Sullivan to a Famous Draw. Mitchell and Sullivan were locked in a French jail when plans for the
Mitchell is honored as the first man to survive the Boston Strong Boy1888 Ornate Boxing Belt Presented to Charley Mitchell after Fighting John L. Sullivan to a Famous Draw. Mitchell and Sullivan were locked in a French jail when plans for the presentation of this truly gorgeous relic of elite bare-knuckle boxing began. After a three-hour battle in the driving rain drenching the grounds of Baron Rothschild's chateau at Chantilly ended in a draw, the local gendarmes had taken the bloody combatants at gunpoint before a local tribunal, holding the pair for the better part of a day before releasing the fighters on bond.
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