Bill Richmond
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Bill Richmond was a British boxer, born into slavery in Richmondtown, New York. Although born in Colonial America, he lived for the majority of his life in England, where all his boxing contests took
1810 depiction of Richmond
Tom Molineaux, trainee of Bill Richmond
John Neal, one of Richmond's late-life boxing academy pupils
A plaque honouring Richmond on the Tom Cribb pub in Westminster
Tom Molineaux
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Thomas Molineaux, sometimes spelled Molyneaux or Molyneux, was an American bare-knuckle boxer and possibly a former slave. He spent much of his career in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Irelan
Bill Richmond
…winnings allowed him to buy the Horse and Dolphin pub in St Martin's Street near Leicester Square in London. It was at the pub that Richmond probably met Tom Molineaux, another former American slave. Richmond immediately saw Molineaux's potential as a boxer, and decided to put aside his own boxing career and to train…
Molineaux (left) vs Tom Cribb.
Staffordshire figure, c. 1815