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… occur after a tragic event. This was the case during the Stilton match (6 May 1789) opposing Mendoza and Humphreys. William Ward, a pugilist, had travelled to Stilton with his fraternity to watch the boxing match but was challenged to … 6 . Edward Barry, A Letter on the Practice of Boxing (London: A. Grant, 1789), p.28. A national and manly entertainment William Cobbett ‘In Defense of Boxing’ (1805) During the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, the debates on boxing and its … defeated Napoleon The ambiguities of boxing after the Tory backlash following Waterloo were also pondered by William Hazlitt in two essays published in the New Monthly Magazine in 1822 and 1825. 14 In the essay entitled ‘The Fight’, …
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