discouragement passed to me when I was beginning to attract notice as a puncher. That was the popular notion at that time, because Sayers, Heenan, Yankee Sullivan, and some other good men who had made their tally and passed up had small hands." External links ESPN.com Boxing Hall of Fame The Boston Strongboy Yesterday's News An 1883 newspaper account of a Sullivan exhibition in St. Paul, Minn. Clarence W. Rowley Papers Relating to Buffalo Bill and John L. Sullivan. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. |- 1858 births 1918 deaths American male boxers American people of Irish descent Bare-knuckle boxers Drinking establishment owners Heavyweight boxers International Boxing Hall of Fame inductees People from South End, Boston Boxers from Boston People associated with physical culture World heavyweight boxing champions