Bill Richmond · Lineage tree

Also known as

The Black Terror

Description

British boxer born into slavery in New York, who came to England in 1777. He trained and managed his countryman Tom Molineaux for the fights with Tom Cribb, and in the 1820s ran a boxing academy whose pupils included William Hazlitt and Lord Byron.

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  Tom Molineaux

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  Probable

  Wikipedia only; Green and Svinth say managed.

  The evidence favours the claim and nothing credible contradicts it, but it falls short of establishing it.

  Coach (1809–1810)

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  Frederico Muñoz

  Researcher, Martialis

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  fact_check

  Wikipedia only; Green and Svinth say managed.

  “On December 18, 1810, having been trained by Bill Richmond, Molineaux fought Tom Cribb at Shenington Hollow in Oxfordshire for the English title.”

  — Tom Molineaux - Wikipedia (English). Wikipedia (English)link history info

  “With Richmond as his trainer, Molineaux decisively won two fights, then challenged Cribb.”

  — Bill Richmond - Wikipedia (English). Wikipedia (English)link history info

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  “the fact that Molyneux was black (and managed by another black, fellow African American Bill Richmond, 1763–1829) added a certain edge to the occasion.”

  — Green, Thomas A.; Svinth, Joseph R.. (2010). Martial Arts of the World: An Encyclopedia of History and Innovation info

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