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🛎️ New blog - Part II of Felix Scott's story 🛎️ In which Scott (b. Barbados, 1856) gets out of prison, returns to the ring, travels the UK for decades with his fairground boxing booth, kills a man (sort of), abuses his wife and daughters, and dies in Wigan: grapplingwithhistory.com/2025/05/08/n...
May 8, 2025, 2:58 PM
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