Bill Richmond, incidentally another former slave and boxing expert, had been brought to England by a progressive man Lord Percy, who also happened to be Duke of Northumberland. Lord Percy encouraged Richmond to be a prize-fighter, and Richmond earned a substantial living off the sport. Indeed, he was such a curiosity, like Molineaux, that he was courted at social events and even written about by Lord Byron. ... After thoroughly beating a man Tom Cribb had trained, the public push and urge to face this new black upstart would draw Cribb into the ring. ... Molineaux had him on the ropes, and bec...

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