 The cross-buttock was more a wrestling maneuver than a boxing one, but it was legitimate under the rules of the time.A competitor gets, more or less, in front of his opponent, and throws his adversary over his hip, causing him to land with great force on the ground.If one popular story is to be believed, Donnelly, who was being badly beaten in the fifth round, was saved by the magical properties of a lump of sugar cane slipped to him by Captain Kelly's sister.