 Hyer never fought again after this one fight.Historian Elliot J. Gorn, writing in the 1980s, states that although Hyer broke his arm, Beasley had been badly beaten, so after mutual friends intervened it was declared a draw.Gorn also states that the match was not actually the first ring fight in America, or the first open to the public, but that its ""significance lay in the "perception" that it was a historic event worth recording, in its being the earliest American fight kept alive as living memory of a heroic past.