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The bare-knuckle origins of modern sportswriting

Summary by The Saturday Paper
William Hazlitt’s account of an 1821 bare-knuckle fight in an English field is considered one of the first examples of modern sportswriting, and remains a triumphant example of the genre.

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The bare-knuckle origins of modern sportswriting

William Hazlitt’s account of an 1821 bare-knuckle fight in an English field is considered one of the first examples of modern sportswriting, and remains a triumphant example of the genre.

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