“In fine, sir, Tom Molineaux was as good as ever twanged – but the best ? Bless you, there’s no such creature, let the wiseacres say what they will. Why, sir? Because somewhere, and the good Lord only knows where, but somewhere, sir, there’s always one better. Course there is.” – Black Ajax , by George MacDonald Fraser George MacDonald Fraser’s Black Ajax is, ostensibly, a work of historical fiction about one particular prizefighter, a former slave named Tom Molineaux, who won his freedom with his fists, then briefly became the toast of London as a bare-knuckle boxer in the early part of the 19th century.
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What a novel about bare-knuckle boxing in 1810 can tell you about MMA in 2016 – MMA Junkie