1884
Feb 26 Skin Doherty Boston, Ma KO 3
Mar Young Shannon Boston, Ma W 4
Apr 4 J. Shanley Boston, Ma W 4
Apr Bob Lyons Boston, Ma KO 11
-London Rules used for this bout
Apr 8 Paddy Carey Boston, Ma EX
Apr 20 Paddy Carey Boston, Ma EX
May 15 Paddy Carey Boston, Ma KO 4
-Some sources report "W 4"
May 19 Cunningham Boston, Ma EX 3
May Paddy Sullivan Gloucester, Ma D 6
Jun Paddy Sullivan Lowell, Ma D 6
Jun 16 McDonald Boston, Ma EX 3
Jun Paddy Sullivan Boston, Ma D 6
Oct 31 Tug Collins Boston, Ma D 4
Dec 19 Jack Magee Boston, Ma LK 2
1885
Feb 13 Young Kerrigan Boston, Ma EX
Feb 16 Young Kerrigan Boston, Ma EX
Feb 18 Dan Murphy Boston, Ma KO 3
Apr 27 John Kennedy Peabody, Ma ND
May 2 Young Kerrigan Boston, Ma EX
-Some sources report 5/22/85
May 6 Young Kerrigan Boston, Ma EX 3
May 8 Young Kerrigan Boston, Ma EX
May 22 Young Kerrigan Boston, Ma EX 3
May 25 Young Kerrigan Boston, Ma EX
Aug 31 Young Kerrigan Boston, Ma SCH
-This bout was scheduled; The outcome is not known
Sep 4 Young Kerrigan Salem, Ma SCH
-This bout was scheduled; The outcome is not known
Sep 15 Young Kerrigan Quincy, Ma EX
Oct 27 Bill Rosamond Boston, Ma KO 4
Nov 6 Denny Sullivan Boston, Ma EX 3
Nov 6 George LaBlanche Boston, Ma EX 1
-The previous 2 bouts were held the same date
Nov 12 -Duffy challenged Mike Daly to a bout
1886
Jan 28 Billy Young Baltimore, Md D 6
Feb 17 Denny Shea Boston, Ma KO 7
Apr 22 Billy Nally Washington, DC KO 4
Apr 24 George Milton Washington, DC KO 2
Jun Butler's Unknown Philadelphia, Pa W 4
Jun Billy Young Baltimore, Md WF 2
-Some sources report "KO 2"
Jul Pete Connolly Philadelphia, Pa W 4
Jul Frank Brooks Philadelphia, Pa W 4
Jul 17 Charles Gleason Boston, Ma W 4
Jul 22 Charles Gleason Philadelphia, Pa D 4
Jul 28 Kentucky Rosebud Philadelphia, Pa W 4
-This man was "Walter Edgerton"
Jul Charley White Philadelphia, Pa W 4
Jul Frank Burke Philadelphia, Pa D 4
Aug 6 Charles "Bull" McCarthy Philadelphia, Pa W 4
-Some sources report 07/10/1886
Aug Charley Hermon Philadelphia, Pa KO 2
Oct 7 Young Kerrigan Boston, Ma EX 4
-Apparently, this man was not "Patsy Kerrigan"
Oct Tom Wall Philadelphia, Pa D 4
Oct Billy Teese Philadelphia, Pa D 4
Oct 29 Patsy Kerrigan Boston, Ma EX
Dec 6 Paddy Riley Boston, Ma EX
Dec 10 Patsy Kerrigan South Boston, Ma EX
Dec George Wilson Boston, Ma D 4
Dec 13 Isaac "Ike" O'Neil Weir Somerville, Ma SCH
-This bout was scheduled; The outcome is not known
Dec 13 Patsy Kerrigan Somerville, Ma EX 3
Dec 17 Billy Frazier Boston, Ma SCH
-This bout was scheduled; The outcome is not known
Dec 17 Patsy Kerrigan Boston, Ma EX
Dec 17 Marcellus Baker Boston, Ma EX
-The previous 2 bouts were held the same date
Dec 20 Paddy Riley Boston, Ma SCH
Dec 23 -Duffy was scheduled to appear at the Boston, Ma (Cribb Club)
Dec 29 Patsy Kerrigan Boston, Ma EX 3
Dec 29 Paddy Riley Boston, Ma EX 4
-Different sources report the previous 2 bouts held the same date
1887
Jan 5 -Duffy and Howie Hodgkins were to be tendered a benefit at Boston, Ma
Jan 10 Paddy Riley Boston, Ma SCH
-This bout was scheduled; The outcome is not known
Jan 13 Patsy Kerrigan Brockton, Ma SCH
-This bout was scheduled; The outcome is not known
Jan 14 Patsy Kerrigan Natick, Ma SCH
-This bout was scheduled; The outcome is not known
Jan 14 Billy Frazier New Bedford, Ma D 4
Jan 21 Billy Frazier East Weymouth, Ma EX
Jan 22 Billy Frazier Woburn, Ma SCH
-This bout was scheduled to a finish but was not held;
Stakeholder Patsy Kerrigan did not have the money with him
Jan 24 Billy Frazier Woburn, Ma EX
Jan 25 -Duffy, Billy Frazier, Joe Lannon, Jack Williams, Jack McDonald
were scheduled to appear in Nashua, NH; The outcomes are not known
Feb 8 Billy Frazier Brockton, Ma EX
Feb 10 Billy Frazier Portland, Me SCH
-This bout was scheduled; The outcome is not known
Feb 19 Tom Wall Boston, Ma KO 5
Feb 21 -Billy Frazier was scheduled to meet all-comers in Philadelphia
(During the week; Duffy went with him)
Mar Pat Farley Boston, Ma KO 3
Mar 16 Billy Frazier Boston, Ma SCH
-This bout was scheduled; The outcome is not known
Mar 21 L. Wetzel Brown Boston, Ma EX 3
Apr 12 Dick Cronin Boston, Ma EX
Apr Tom Murphy Boston, Ma KO 4
Apr 25 Billy Frazier Lowell, Ma EX
Apr 25 Patsy Kerrigan Lowell, Ma EX 3
-The previous 2 bouts reportedly were held the same date
Apr 27 Patsy Kerrigan Boston, Ma EX 4
-Some sources report 4/28/87
May 12 Billy Frazier Boston, Ma SCH
-This bout was scheduled; The outcome is not known
May 17 Jack McGinty Boston, Ma D 6
May 17 Billy Frazier Boston, Ma EX
-The previous 2 bouts reportedly were held the same date
May 27 Billy Frazier Boston, Ma EX
May 28 Billy Frazier Fall River, Ma SCH
-This bout was scheduled; The outcome is not known
Jun 2 Billy Frazier Boston, Ma SCH
-This bout was scheduled; The outcome is not known
Jun Jack McGinty Boston, Ma D 6
S. Wilds Boston, Ma KO 7
Jul 16 Patsy Kerrigan Boston, Ma SCH
-This bout was scheduled; The outcome is not known
Aug 8 Patsy Kerrigan Boston, Ma EX 3
Sep 19 Patsy Kerrigan Boston, Ma EX 3
Sep 19 Billy Frazier Boston, Ma EX 3
-The previous 2 bouts reportedly were held the same date
Oct 1 Jack McGinty Boston, Ma W 6
Oct Dick Cronin Boston, Ma SCH
-This bout was scheduled; The outcome is not known
Nov 7 Patsy Kerrigan Boston, Ma EX 3
Nov 17 Jack McGinty Boston, Ma D 8
Dec 2 -Duffy seconded Jimmy Carroll vs Tommy McManus in Boston, Ma
Dec 19 Jack McGinty Boston, Ma EX 3
1888
Jan 9 Patsy Kerrigan Boston, Ma SCH
-This bout was scheduled; The outcome is not known
Jan 16 Patsy Kerrigan Boston, Ma EX
Jan 17 Jim Meehan Boston, Ma W 7
Jan 23 Patsy Kerrigan Boston, Ma EX
-Some sources report 1/21/88
Jan 24 Patsy Kerrigan Boston, Ma EX
Jan 27 Tom Green Bridgeport, Ct EX
Jan 27 Pete McCoy Bridgeport, Ct EX
-The previous 2 bouts were held the same date
Feb 1 -Duffy was scheduled to spar in Milford, Ct
Feb 9 Jack McGinty Boston, Ma TK 9
Feb 14 Jack Kirwin Providence, RI EX
Mar 28 Jimmy Conley Boston, Ma EX
Apr 13 an unnamed opponent Boston, Ma KO 3
-Some sources report "TK 7" ; This man used the name Dan Custy;
Custy denied he fought Duffy; Thomas "Soap" McAlpine was supposed
to bring Custy to Boston to fight Duffy; He brought someone and called
him Custy; Duffy later commented that his opponent did not look like a
champion of anything
May 1 Jimmy Carroll Boston, Ma EX
May 15 Jack McGinty Boston, Ma EX 3
Jun 11 Patsy Kerrigan Boston, Ma SCH
-This bout was scheduled; The outcome not known
Jun 12 Paddy Sullivan Providence, RI KO 8
Jun 13 Dick Moorehouse Boston, Ma D 6
Jul 4 an unnamed opponent Providence, RI SCH
-This bout was scheduled; The outcome not known
Jul Jem Kendrick Revere, Ma EX
Jul 12 Jem Kendrick Boston, Ma EX
Oct 30 Billy McMillan Fort Foote, Va KO 17
-Welterweight Championship of the World;
Some sources report 10/31/88
1889
Jan 7 Charles Gleason Boston, Ma D 10
-Some sources report 1/08/89
Jan 15 -Duffy seconded James Boyle vs. Steve Travis at Boston, Ma
Jan Jack Kirwin Schenectady, NY EX
-Duffy and Kirwin sparred several exhibitions
in Schenectady during Jan 1889
Feb Billy Yeager Boston, Ma SCH
-This bout was scheduled; The outcome is not known
Mar 29 Tom Meadows San Francisco, Ca WF 45
-Welterweight Championship of the World
Apr 12 -Duffy was challenged by Billy McMillan to a bout
Apr 24 Patsy Kerrigan Cambridge, Ma EX
May Jimmy Conley Cambridge, Ma ND
Aug 26 Johnny Reagan Brooklyn, NY ND
-Some sources report 8/26/88 (but see article below)
--- Boston (Ma) Daily Globe, Aug 27 1889 ---
*** The Following Bouts Are Reported But Not Confirmed ***
Undated
Bill Dunn D
-Some sources report "L 4"
Fred Woods D
C. Hoffman Boston, Ma KO 2
1883-1886
Kentucky Rosebud Philadelphia, Pa ND 20
-This man was Walter Edgerton;
This was a "private" fight
