Dick Barker

Name: Dick Barker
Alias: Dick Nolan
Birth Name: Richard Nolan
Hometown: Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Died: 1892-10-09
Pro Boxer: Record

Richard 'Dick' Barker died from injuries sustained in a bout with either a Jack Perry or Jack Davis, October 8, 1892 (sometimes reported as December 1890), at Memphis, TN, USA, after being knocked out.

Reference sources

• Source: Death under the Spotlight: The Manuel Velasquez Boxing Fatality Collection [1]
• Possibly the same Dick Barker, "Queensland Giant", heavy-weight, 1895 - held and digitised as part of the Arnold Thomas boxing collection by the National Library of Australia