Brewer's: Benicia Boy

John C. Heenan, the American pugilist, who challenged and fought Tom Sayers for “the belt” in 1860; so called from Benicia in California, his birthplace.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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