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… the codification of boxing secured its status, its popularity was enhanced by the dramatization of boxing matches in the press. Those which opposed Daniel Mendoza, also called the ‘Jew’, to Richard Humphreys, the ‘Christian’ from Clapham from … there was a kind of contemptuous laugh; on that of Humphreys there appeared as implacable an hatred of his adversary’. 3 Press articles hooked the attention of readers by giving them not only the account of a physical and violent fight, yet … the bets had been on the former. Accounts praised the superiority of his skill, his endurance and rapidity. Some press articles though decried the brutality of the game and warned against the example being set. Such debates would …
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