Also known as
Jack Adams
Description
English professional boxer who fought Owen Swift at Charenton in 1838, stayed in Paris, and gave Charles Lecour boxing lessons. No source gives his first name.
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Charles Lecoursports_martial_artsBoxing ProbableProbableHis own account, as Charlemont relays it.The evidence favours the claim and nothing credible contradicts it, but it falls short of establishing it.Private lesson (1838)
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2 sources expand_moreFrederico MuñozResearcher, Martialisfact_checkHis own account, as Charlemont relays it.“C’est alors qu’il se fit présenter à Adams qui était resté à Paris, et put ainsi prendre avec lui un certain nombre de leçons. Grâce à ces leçons de boxe anglaise réunies à la savate, Charles Lecour forma ce que l’on appela à juste titre la boxe française. Nous tenons de Charles Lecour lui-même les lignes qui précèdent”
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Muñoz, Frederico (YEAR_PLACEHOLDER). Adams. In Martialis: Martial Arts Lineage
Database. https://martial.is/entity/01M5JG4Y25X3MQSDWVDW1VF3C8 - CC BY-SA 4.0.
Accessed ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER.
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