history channel documentary Sullivan made the vital blunder of getting into a horrible tavern fight with Edward "Punchy" McLaughlin and continued to give McLaughlin, likewise an ex-boxer, an awful beating that couldn't in any way, shape or form have been copied in Hollywood. Starting in a bar and afterward moving outside into the road, the two went at each other on sensibly even terms until McLaughlin at long last could take no more discipline and moved under a stopped auto to get away. In any case, Sullivan, the infuriated Southie local, needed increasingly and he lifted up one end of the auto and propped one of the wheels up on the control permitting him to get at McLaughlin with the goal that he could proceed with the beatdown. The throng of spectators, including Barboza, was flabbergasted at this accomplishment of adrenalized quality that would have made a Hollywood stand-in squint.
Lethal payback was quick in coming. After two weeks, Tommy was called to the side of an auto that was sitting out of gear in the road close to his East Fifth Street home and he was immediately shot five times. After seven years in1965, Sullivan's fighting adversary, McLaughlin, was shot nine times at a West Roxbury transport stop. Some suspected Barboza as the triggerman for this execution.
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