page_title: Young Barney Aaron
section_title: Boxing career
hierarchical_section_title: Young Barney Aaron / Boxing career
caption_attribution_description: English: Cabinet card image of English bare knuckle boxer "Young" Barney Aaron (1836-1907). TCS 1.1, Harvard Theatre Collection, Harvard University
context_page_description: Young Barney Aaron was a bare-knuckle boxer.
  The son of Hall of Fame boxer Barney Aaron, he emigrated to the United States around 1853, and began boxing in 1856. Aaron first became a U.S. Lightweight Champion in 1857 defeating Jim Moneghan, and retook the title in 1867 against Sam Collyer.
context_section_description: Young Barney Aaron was born on July 27, 1836 probably at Duke's Palace in the Aldgate section of London where his father was known to reside.
  Like his father before him, Aaron was a hard-hitting bare-knuckled fighter, but he fought in a new era under different rules than his famous father. The elder Aaron battled under "Broughton's Rules"; Young Barney fought under the Pugilistic Society's "London Prize Ring Rules," which had been developed in 1838.  Modified in 1853, only three years before young Barney began his professional career, the Rules stated the ring should be 24 square feet (2.2 m²), surrounded by two ropes. Any knockdown marked the end of the round, and the downed fighter had 8 seconds to "come to scratch" unaided, or the fight was over—under Broughton's Rules, a fighter had 30 seconds to return to the center of the ring, and had the help of his handlers. Therefore, bouts were recorded according to the number of rounds and length of time; 3-minute rounds were not developed until the late-19th century.
  On July 9, 1856, on Rikers Island, Aaron fought a man named Johnny Robinson beginning at daybreak. The bout lasted for 80 rounds, 2 hours and 20 minutes, and resulted in Aaron being declared the winner. They had previously met indoors for a seventeen round bout that was declared a draw.
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