10th April 1750, Jack Slack squares up to Jack Broughton in an English bare-knuckle championship bout. Slack won and reigned as champion until 1760. Broughton was responsible for devising boxing’s first set of rules in 1743, as well as for the introduction of ‘mufflers’, (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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