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Posted: **15 Dec 2018, 15:51**

From the autobiographal memoir of famous British Novelist George Borrow
( born 1803 in Dereham,Norfolk)
scroll down about a quarter of this page to chapter XXVI
to read his account of the English pugilists of the Regency Era

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/452/452-h/452-h.htm

Posted: **17 Dec 2018, 16:08**

here are the names of pugilists that he names in the chapter.

Cribb
Belcher'
Savage Shelton
terrible Randall
Ned Turner
Bulldog Hudson
fearless Scroggins
Black Richmond
Kean
Sam the Jew
Tom of Bedford

and some fighters of yore
Broughton
Slack
Ben

Posted: **17 Dec 2018, 20:48**

how good was "Kean" ? anyway.

Posted: **18 Dec 2018, 15:57**

Posted: **18 Dec 2018, 16:34**

Caractacus wrote: ↑17 Dec 2018, 20:48How good was "Kean" ? anyway.

Just one known fight, in which he had huge advantage in weight, 10st 4lb Kean vs 8st 7lb Larkins.

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"Bruisers of England" by George Borrow (LAVENGRO-published 1851)

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