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WELCOME
To the training barns used by The Great John L. Sullivan to prepare for
the last Bare Knuckle Boxing Championship of the World against Jake Kilrain! He trained here in Belfast, New York, for this
epic 75-round brawl that took place in 1889 in Richburg, Mississippi. Originally owned by trainer William Muldoon, the
barns were the training headquarters for Sullivan who arrived in Belfast not in the best of shape ~ as he states
in his autobiography, just 6 months earlier he was extremely sick and couldn't walk without the aid of crutches. This
fight proved to be the most important match in his career.
Using training techniques
that were ahead of his time, Muldoon helped Sullivan get into the best shape of his life. These barns have
been virtually untouched for more than 120 years. They opened in 2009 as The Bare Knuckle Boxing Hall of Fame!
Come visit and you can stand where The Great John L. Sullivan stood and see the "Room of Repose"
where Sullivan rested and he and Muldoon planned.
"I have stood where Ali stood. I have stood where Foreman has stood. I have fought in Madison Square Garden.
The unique experience of standing where The Great John L. Sullivan stood - the man who started it all - is in a class by itself,"
said Baby Joe Mesi. "It is simply awesome. The whole world needs to see this place; it is a true boxing treasure."
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