“The awful set to at length commenced.” Thus Pierce Egan, the Herodotus of the London Prize Ring, began his coverage of the titanic sixty-two round contest between Tom Johnson and Isaac Perrins on October 22, 1789. A sportswriter, a novelist, and, according to A.J. Liebling, probably a shakedown man, Egan was not the first pen wielding pundit to opine about the pugilistic arts. For that, we can go back at ...
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