Bill Neat

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Bristol prizefighter of the Regency ring (born 1791), prepared under Tom Cribb's tuition for his 1818 fight with Tom Oliver; he later fought Tom Spring.

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  Tom Cribb

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  Miles says he trained ten weeks under Cribb's tuition; one source.

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

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  Frederico Muñoz

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  Miles says he trained ten weeks under Cribb's tuition; one source.

  “with the improving value of ten weeks’ training under the immediate auspices and tuition of Cribb, the advice of Gully, and the generally sound judgment of Captain Barclay, he soon became the favourite”

  — Miles, Henry Downes. (1906). Pugilistica: The History of British Boxing, Volume 2link info

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