a side or roughly the impressive sum of £3080, in a ten-round bout lasting around 45 minutes in Kennerville, Louisiana. The fight was for what is now considered by boxing historians to have been the heavyweight world championship, though it was often considered an American championship as well. Allen was ten years younger than Mace's advanced age of 39. Allen threw Mace in the sixth, but when he threw Mace again in the last round, he broke or dislocated his shoulder when he landed awkwardly on the ground. Allen had injuries to his eyes and mouth largely from lightning-fast left jabs, while Mace's face looked nearly untouched. On 6 April 1871, Mace suffered a loss in New Orleans to Gentleman Jose Alonso. He defended the heavyweight title in one of his last significant fights against Joe Coburn on 30 November 1871 in a ten-round draw at Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, forty miles from New Orleans. Both men were close in weight and height. The first scheduled title fight between the two, in 1864, did not go ahead as Mace failed to show. Coburn was furious that Mace had prevented him from participating in the lucrative match, which would have drawn a large crowd. In the November 1871 fight, Mace was thrown repeatedly, and took some hard falls. Coburn injured his right wrist in the fifth as he threw Mace hard over the ropes. In the eighth round, known as "chancery", Coburn held Mace around the head and punched him several times. In the tenth and eleventh, Mace's left hand becomes more swollen, and difficult to use. At the request of the referee, the fighters agreed to call it a draw in the 12th round, as neither was inclined to strongly engage the other, largely due to their injured hands. The torrential rain may have partly been the cause of the abbreviated match as it required the boxers to fight up to their knees in mud. Following an attempt on his life in Mississippi, he returned to England. On the evening of 16 December 1876, he was back in America, this time as a glove boxer, and in an historic early clash for a purse of $100 under Queensberry Rules, he defeated Bill Davis at National Guard Hall at Virginia City, Nevada. In the last and ninth round, Mace found Davis's eye and scored, and when the fight was called at