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Owen Swift

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Owen Swift (1814– 9 June 1879) was a British bare-knuckle prize fighter, who killed three men in boxing bouts. [1]

13 relations: Bare-knuckle boxing, Charles Lecour, Frank Lewis Dowling, Harry Lazarus, Kensal Green Cemetery, London, London Prize Ring Rules, Manslaughter, PDF, Professional boxing, Simon Byrne, Soho, The Annual Register.

Bare-knuckle boxing

Bare-knuckle boxing (also known as bare-knuckle, prizefighting, fist fight or fisticuffs) is the original form of boxing, closely related to ancient combat sports.

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Charles Lecour

Charles Lecour (1808 – 1894) had started his studies of Savate at an early age, was a student of Michel Casseux who merged Savate and English Boxing to a fighting style he eventually called French Boxing.

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Frank Lewis Dowling

Frank Lewis Dowling (18 October 1823 – 10 October 1867, in Norfolk Street, Strand, London) was a British newspaper editor.

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Harry Lazarus

Harry Lazarus (1839 – January 2, 1865) was an English-born American pugilist, saloon keeper, thief and underworld figure in New York City during the 1850s and early 1860s.

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Kensal Green Cemetery

Kensal Green Cemetery is in Kensal Green in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London, England.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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London Prize Ring Rules

The London Prize Ring Rules were a list of boxing rules promulgated in 1838 and revised in 1853.

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Manslaughter

Manslaughter is a common law legal term for homicide considered by law as less culpable than murder.

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PDF

The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format developed in the 1990s to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.

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Professional boxing

Professional boxing, or prizefighting, is a regulated, sanctioned boxing.

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Simon Byrne

Simon Byrne (1806 – 2 June 1833), nicknamed "The Emerald Gem", was an Irish bare-knuckle prize fighter.

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Soho

Soho is an area of the City of Westminster, part of the West End of London.

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The Annual Register

The Annual Register (originally subtitled "A View of the History, Politicks and Literature of the Year...") is a long-established reference work, written and published each year, which records and analyses the year’s major events, developments and trends throughout the world.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Swift

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