described above, with much concentration on defensive technique and counter-attack. With the popular support he gained from his boxing victories, Mendoza helped transform the popular English stereotype of a Jew from an anonymous weak, and defenseless person into an individual deserving of respect. This image was bolstered by his conference with the future King George IV, when they met in public view after the Martin fight. Later career 1793–95 Though he remained an admired and heroic figure, Mendoza's decline in popular support may have partly been due to public knowledge of several crimes he committed, which he omitted from his memoirs. He may have been deported early in his life for robbery, was undoubtedly accused of fraud in a well publicised 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. Violent acts were not unknown to his children, either. Two of his sons, Daniel and Abraham, in separate incidents were deported for acts of violence against two gentlemen they had just robbed. After a stay in a debtors' prison, he resumed training and defeated Bill Warr again on 12 November 1794, completely outclassing him in only seventeen minutes at Bexley Common. Declining in popularity despite holding the championship, his purse was too small to provide food for his starving family, so he found work as a recruiting Sargent. Loss of English championship, 1795 On 15 April 1795, Mendoza fought "Gentleman" John Jackson for the English championship on a stage at Hornchurch in Essex. At a muscular twenty-six, Jackson was five years younger than Mendoza's weary thirty-one, taller, and heavier. Two hundred guineas, or a little over two hundred British pounds, were laid on each side, and the future King William IV was among the audience. The bout was only Jackson's third professional fight, but Mendoza's age, months in prison and years of punishment gave the advantage to the less-battered Jackson. The bigger man won in nine rounds, paving the way to victory by muscling Mendoza into the corner of the ring, grabbing his hair and 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