Bill Brassey
English bar-knuckle boxer
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Bill Brassey (known as John Leechman) was an English bare-knuckle boxer.
On 26 October 1840 Ben Caunt defeated Bill Brassey at Six Mile Bottom, Cambridgeshire, in 101 rounds.[1]
Mee, Bob (2001). "Slow Painful Decline". Bare Fists: The History of Bare-Knuckle Prize-Fighting. Woodstock, N.Y.: Overlook Press. p. 108. ISBN 1-58567-141-X. Caunt beat Bill Brassey, otherwise known as John Leechman, at Six Mile Bottom near Newmarket in 101 rounds on October 26, 1840.
