Heenan-Sayers prize fight
1860 · Event
English champion Tom Sayers meets American John C. Heenan at Farnborough in the first great international boxing match — illegal, brutal, 42 rounds, ended by a crowd invasion and declared a draw. Parliament took note; the Queensberry rules followed within a decade.
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