[quote="dve3333"]Here is a funny excerpt from how John L Sullivan began boxing by an Irish Sports website
http://www.hoganstand.com/general/ident ... llivan.htm
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Nice little bio, incidently they say he preffered the use of gloves because it was safer, what I have read he liked the gloves because he didn`t like the prizefighting rules, and the trouble with the law.
He didn`t like the running and going to the floor to stop the action, like Charley Mitchell did to him when they fought.