Jack Ashton

Name: Jack Ashton
Hometown: Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Birthplace: Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Died: 1893-01-06 (Age:30)
Height: 179cm
Pro Boxer: Record

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According to report of his fight with Kilrain in the Brooklyn Eagle, Ashton was born and bred in England.

• Exact date of birth in 1861 unknown.
• Ashton was a sparring partner of John L. Sullivan.
• He developed blood poisoning from a mere scratch on his left arm, and erysipelas set in as a sort of accompaniment, from which he died January 6, 1893, at Bellevue Hospital in New York.