1863 NY Times headline newspaper with EARLY BOXING MATCH coverage HEENAN vs KING for Sale

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1863 NY Times headline newspaper with EARLY BOXING MATCH coverage HEENAN vs KING For Sale

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1863 NY Times headline newspaper with EARLY BOXING MATCH coverage HEENAN vs KING:
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1863 NY Times headline newspaper withdetailed coverage of the HEENAN vs KING BOXING MATCH -inv #9V-402

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SEE PHOTO-----COMPLETE, ORIGINALNEWSPAPER,theNY Times dated Dec 24, 1863.This newspaper contains prominent front page \"stacked\" headlines and long detailed (3 columns of text) coverage of the famous HEENAN vs KING boxing match held in England.

John Camel Heenan, aka the Benicia Boy (2 May 1834–28 October 1873) was an American bare-knuckle prize fighter. Though highly regarded, he had only three formal fights in his career, losing two and drawing one.

Heenan is best remembered for his second contest, when he traveled to Farnborough, England to fight British champion Tom Sayers. The bout ended in chaos when spectators broke into the ring and the police intervened. The referee finally called a draw. The Benicia Boy came home to a hero’s welcome, but later returned to England where he had just one more fight, losing controversially to new British champion, Tom King.

Heenan did not remain long in the U.S. Just a year after the battle at Farnborough, the country was torn apart by civil war, and the Benicia Boy returned to England in March 1862. There the following year, by which time the surge in public interest in the prize ring had subsided, he fought once more for the championship.

His opponent this time was Tom King, whom he was widely expected to beat. Articles for the fight with each side staking £1000 were signed on 17 March 1863. In the fight, after a strong start, Heenan faded, and King was victorious. The result was controversial: many American observers later agreed that King had been given longer than the rules allowed to recover from a knock-down in the eighteenth round,[citation needed] and Heenan claimed some time after the fight that his subsequent collapse occurred because he had been drugged.

Sayers, at Heenan\'s request, was the chief second. In theory this should have been a sound choice, as Sayers was notorious for rigorous and disciplined training and crafty ring-tactics as a fighter. However, by this time, he was in the later stages of untreated diabetes and was of no help whatsoever to Heenan as the fight slipped away from him. The two men never spoke again. Heenan was in England at the time of Tom Sayers\' funeral, but did not attend.

Tom King (born: 14 August 1835 died: 3 October 1888) also known as \"The Fighting Sailor\" was an English boxer who fought both bare-knuckle and with gloves. Strong, fast, and durable he was a skilled pugilist. One of his quirkier pre-fight rituals was to drink a tot of gin before every bout. He retired from the ring in 1863, as the Heavyweight Champion of England, following his defeat of the boxer Jem Mace. In retirement he became a successful bookmaker, and married the daughter of a wealthy shipping magnate and acquired great wealth.

King fought on 10 December 1863 for £2000 against John C Heenan, the American fighter who had fought the celebrated British boxer Thomas Sayers to a controversial draw for the heavyweight title in 1860. Following the draw Heenan had been unofficially acclaimed the heavyweight champion, so the defence of this title against Heenan was an important march in English boxing. Thomas Sayers himself acted as Heenan\'s second in this match, the last time the legendary pugilist entered a boxing ring before his early death in 1865. The bout was held at Cockmounts Farm, Wadhurst, East Sussex. According to Heenan\'s 19th-century biographer, the fight lasted 35 minutes and 25 rounds. For the first 17 rounds the fighting appeared even, but in the 18th round King seemed to gain the advantage, going on to win the match with ease.

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