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651:, a boxing history of the period, said of Mendoza that he was "a complete artist" and "a star of the first brilliancy." On the subject of race prejudice, Egan wrote, "In spite of his prejudice, he (the Christian) was compelled to exclaim—Mendoza was a pugilist of no ordinary merit." Egan further wrote "No pugilist whatever, since the time of Broughton (or even Broughton himself), has ever so completely elucidated, or promulgated, the principles of boxing as Daniel Mendoza". (Broughton was the first Englishman to write rules for the sport of boxing.)
546:, shaved their heads to avoid the possibility of this, until hair-pulling was eventually banned in boxing. Mendoza retired after his loss, and though he attempted boxing comebacks, he never again enjoyed the same-size audiences or received large purses. Although Mendoza continued sparring tours well into the nineteenth century, 1795 marked the beginning of a steep decline in his popularity and for the most part, his income. He very rarely appeared in the London newspapers after this period, and had lost respect with much of the public.
604:. The riots lasted three months and became a violent uprising against the increase in prices at the new theatre after the old theatre had burnt down. The resulting poor publicity probably cost Mendoza much of his remaining popular support, as he was seen to be fighting on the side of the privileged. The anger against the raising of the prices also sparked additional antisemitism in London and apparently, judging by the press accounts, against Mendoza himself.
392:, published articles on the Mendoza–Humphries bouts, and United States papers ran stories as well. In one newspaper article to advertise their meeting, Mendoza taunted, "Mr. Humphreys is afraid, he dares not meet me as a boxer … though he has the advantages of strength and age, though a teacher of the art, he meanly shrinks from a public trial of that skill". Humphries replied Mendoza should make the same claim in the ring, and vowed to meet him.
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the street outside the tea dealership in a hastily constructed ring. The fight lasted for forty-five minutes, ending when the porter declared he was unable to continue. This victory brought a small measure of fame to
Mendoza, as stories of the fight spread through the surrounding neighborhoods and portrayed Mendoza as the talented whippersnapper who had not just beaten, but thrashed his larger opponent.
320:, presented Mendoza with 500 pounds, in addition to the 500 pounds he had won in the match, and shook his hand in full view of the gallery. Mendoza used the money to open a boxing school in Capel Court. The recognition by royalty annoyed his second, occasional manager Richard Humphries, who became a rival and planned for a match, but it elevated the stature of Jews in London.
235:, Spain; they had emigrated to the Netherlands, which had a policy of toleration, where his grandfather was born. The family moved to London, with ancestors living there for a century before Mendoza's birth. Several sources wrote that some of his London ancestors from Spain had earlier concealed their Jewish identity and converted to Christianity, becoming
307:, having dispatched a couple of minor fighters in the intervening eight months. The second bout vs Tyne resulted in victory for Mendoza in a fight lasting 27 rounds and almost an hour. Mendoza noted that in the second bout Tyne fought with 'uncommon shyness' and that 'several sporting gentlemen assembled on this occasion'.
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strength by acting on the defensive till the assault in turn could be practiced with success’. Mendoza was believed to have ‘derived his primitive knowledge of boxing from the tuition of his elegant rival
Humphreys; but he so rapidly improved upon the system of his master, as to remain several years without a rival’.
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pummeling his head with uppercuts using his free hand. Mendoza managed to come back up to scratch after this, but was soon knocked out. Jackson beat him into submission by the end of the ninth round. Mendoza asked for a foul for the hair pulling, but it was ruled to be legal at the time. Many pugilists, such as
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Grinstead Green, Mendoza returned to the ring and defeated the taller Harry Lee in 53 rounds. Based on his previous reputation, Mendoza was a 3–1 favourite in the betting. The stakes were 50 guineas a side. During this period Mendoza worked as the landlord of the "Admiral Nelson"
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Pierce Egan recorded that ‘Mendoza was considered one of the most elegant and scientific pugilists in the whole race of boxers. He rose up like a phenomenon in the pugilistic hemisphere, and was a star of the first brilliancy for a considerable period’. The anonymous work
Pancratia (1812) noted that
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After his fight with Sam Martin the Bath
Butcher in Barnet on 17 April 1787, which Mendoza won in ten rounds and a total of 26 minutes, he was transported home followed by a cheering crowd who carried lighted torches and sang 'See the Conquering Hero Comes'. After the fight, the Prince of Wales, who
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Believing the porter was cheating his frail employer, Mendoza accepted the challenge on his behalf. Richard
Humphries acted as Mendoza's second. Humphries would later act as a manager for Mendoza, arranging training facilities and securing payment for fights. The duel with the porter took place in
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Mendoza's first fight occurred in 1780 when he was 16. At the time, he was working for a tea dealer in
Aldgate, London. The fight was not a prize fight for a purse, but a contest to settle a dispute with a porter over payment for a consignment of tea. The porter had demanded twice the agreed price
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The next phase of
Mendoza's career was defined by a series of bouts with his former mentor and second Richard Humphries between 1787 and 1790. The first, and least known, of these took place on 9 September 1787; Mendoza lost in 29 minutes. This fight was not considered as important by historians,
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Mendoza attended a Jewish school, Shaare Tikvah, where he was instructed in
English grammar, writing and arithmetic, as well as Hebrew. He grew up in London's East End in poor surroundings and worked as a glass cutter, labourer, assistant to a green grocer, and actor before taking up boxing as a
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never refers to him having been champion (whereas the chapters on established champions such as Tom Johnson, Ben Brain and Jem Belcher make their statuses clear on multiple occasions). Most tellingly, in his own autobiography Mendoza makes no reference to these three fights having been for the
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Other attributes considered typical of Mendoza’s style were: ‘stopping and returning with the same hand’, and extensive use of the ‘chopper’ (a backhanded punch, often delivered with the same hand that had just been used to make a block). He was also noted for his ability in ‘tiring out a man’s
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was among the audience. The bout was only Jackson's third professional fight and the betting was recorded by Pierce Egan as having been in favour of Mendoza. Jackson, however, won in nine rounds, paving the way to victory by muscling Mendoza into the corner of the ring, grabbing his hair and
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He died on 3 September 1836 at the age of 72, reportedly at his home in Horseshoe Alley on London's Petticoat Lane, leaving his wife Ester and family of eleven in poverty. He was initially buried in the Nuevo Sephardic Cemetery, a Jewish Cemetery near Mile End, now part of the campus of
418:, English boxing author of the period, noted that many in the crowd were behind Mendoza, and that the "humanity of Mendoza was conspicuous throughout the fight—often was it witnessed that Dan threw his arm when he might have put in a most tremendous blow upon his exhausted adversary".
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With the money he won from the Martin fight, Mendoza is believed to have married first cousin Esther Mendoza around 1789. They would have eleven children, whom Mendoza later struggled to support. Before he married, he promised Esther to quit boxing, but was unable to keep his promise.
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the protagonist Leopold Bloom mentions "Mendoza (pugilist)" in a list of "anapocryphal illustrious sons of the law and children of a selected or rejected race" along with "Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn (composer), Baruch Spinoza (philosopher) . . . Ferdinand Lassalle (reformer,
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in Essex. At a muscular twenty-six, Jackson was five years younger than Mendoza's thirty-one, four inches (10 cm) taller, and 42 pounds (19 kg) heavier. Two hundred guineas, or a little over two hundred British pounds, were laid on each side, and the future King
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On 14 May 1792, Mendoza fought a bout at Smitham Bottom, Croydon, against Bill Warr (or Ward) his former sparring-partner. This fight resulted in a victory for Mendoza in 23 rounds, 116 minutes. After his win against Warr, Mendoza is believed to have met with King
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blocked a blow but, according to Mendoza's account, this did not end the fight. According to his own account, Mendoza slipped on the wet boards of the ring and badly sprained his ankle, preventing him from continuing, and requiring him to forfeit the bout.
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for the consignment and Mendoza said the porter behaved in a manner unfit for a gentleman. After much arguing between the porter and the proprietor of the tea dealership, the porter challenged the owner to settle the dispute by a duel with fists.
557:, he later served another six months. With great connections, though a convict, he was later appointed Sheriff's Assistant to the County of Middlesex in 1806, though he would have to evade prison again in later life due to mounting debts.
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After a stay in a debtors' prison, he resumed training and defeated Bill Warr again on 12 November 1794, outclassing him in only seventeen minutes at Bexley Common. At around this time Mendoza was employed as a recruiting Sargent.
239:. According to many genealogical websites, his parents were Abraham Aaron Mendoza and Esther Lopez and were believed to be artisans. Jewish scholar Albert Hyamson wrote that Aaron Mendoza, a ritual slaughterer or
296:, which after a contest of 40 minutes (during which time much real drubbing was given on both sides) was decided in favour of the tailor, to the no small disappointment and regret of the knowing ones'.
284:. The exact date of this fight is unclear. Mendoza himself claims 1783 but other events in the narrative of his autobiography suggest a date closer to 1786/7. Wheldon (2019) notes that a report in the
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which includes much text invented by the author. Sources from the late 18th and early 19th century, however, seem to be unanimous in not describing Mendoza as champion.
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publicized Old Bailey trial in October 1793, and was found guilty in a London trial of viciously assaulting a woman, Rachel Joel, for insulting his wife in 1795.
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was Mendoza's first cousin four times removed, and hung portraits of the boxer in the backgrounds of several of his films.
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2004:The Memoirs of the Life of Daniel Mendoza (1816)
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2018:; A reprint, edited by Alex Joanides (2011)
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264:Bout with Harry the Coalheaver, 1784
2074:(1830 reprint of the 1813 original)
1332:"The Man Who Birthed Modern Boxing"
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641:Jewish Cemetery in Essex, England.
561:Return to boxing vs Harry Lee, 1806
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1286:Married cousin with the money in
1117:"Wheldon, Wynn, Mendoza the Jew,
731:International Boxing Hall of Fame
686:Early 19th century works such as
655:Claim to the English Championship
524:On 15 April 1795, Mendoza fought
219:, on 5 July 1764, to a family of
120:5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
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715:In 1954 Mendoza was elected to
635:Queen Mary University of London
512:Bout against John Jackson, 1795
251:Early career highlights 1780–90
1931:, 11 May 2019, Spectrum, p. 19
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962:"Mendoza, Daniel (1765?–1836)"
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722:Mendoza was inducted into the
717:The Ring magazine Hall of Fame
600:in an attempt to suppress the
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1824:. Random House. p. 563.
1773:"Announcement on the website"
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344:Humphries posed with guard up
1993:. London. 1845. p. 106.
1560:Defeated by John Jackson in
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911:List of select Jewish boxers
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422:First fight versus Bill Warr
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1022:Siegman, Joseph M. (1992).
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311:Bout with Sam Martin, 1787
1927:Jason Steger, Bookmarks,
1798:National Portrait Gallery
1536:New Lloyd’s Evening Post,
1299:Prince of Wales there in
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1177:Memoirs of Daniel Mendoza
765:'s 1896 historical novel
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112:160 lb (73 kg)
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2041:(subscription required)
816:In American cartoonist
211:Early life and ancestry
1711:, Daniel Mendoza, 1816
1494:Boxiana volume 1, p257
977:10.1093/ref:odnb/18556
867:The Australian writer
820:'s 2003 graphic novel
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1119:Commentary Magazine
2117:Broken and Outcast
1753:. Jewishsports.net
959:Gee, Tony (2004).
860:The English actor
839:The Punishing Blow
786:The Young Mr. Pitt
763:Arthur Conan Doyle
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750:In popular culture
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1734:List of inductees
1624:, Slater, pg. 198
1404:. Your Dictionary
1095:"Mendoza, Daniel"
990:(Subscription or
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