Abstract
When John Morrissey defeated John Heenan on October 20, 1858, for the ham-knuckle prize fighting Championship of America, he did so, claimed Frank Queen’s weekly journal of sports and theatre, the New York Clipper , because Morrissey possessed “a thorough knowledge of the science of offence and defence.” The New York Tribune , on the other hand, railed against the ring’s “show of science,” asserting that scientific pretensions masked sheer brutality. Queen argued that ‘scientific pugilism’ checked the “untutored rage” of fighting; the Tribun e and other mainstream newspapers saw only the rage.
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