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1. In 1886, the year the fight took place, Newark was a city of approximately 175,000. Although the term "boxer" had been introduced in 1848, it had not yet caught on, and The New York Times still referred to combatants as "pugilists," a term first introduced in 1790. In those years, The Time referred to the sport of boxing as "Pugilism."
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