Mick King

Name: Mick King
Birth Name: Joseph Wakefield Kent
Hometown: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Birthplace: Newtown, New South Wales, Australia
Died: 1949-03-20 (Age:56)
Stance: Orthodox
Height: 174cm
Reach: 180cm
Pro Boxer: Record

• Division: Middleweight
• Manager: Dan Salt (while in the Northwest United States)

• According to the Dec. 26, 1914 Tacoma Daily News (Tacoma, WA, USA), King was from Western Australia. He had started his boxing career in 1911. By the date of that newspaper edition, he had fought some 35 bouts. He had won 28 by knockout, and lost a 20-rounder on points, his third career contest.
• Jeff Smith was his early trainer.
• King died circa early 1924 in the Antipodes of injuries received after being knocked out in a bout. Exact date, location and opponent unknown.
• It was also reported by newspapers of the day that he had died of "insanity."

According to a death register, one Joseph Wakefield Kent died at the age of 55 on March 20, 1949 in a mental hospital located in Orange, New South Wales, Australia. He was known as "Michael King" when he was a professional boxer. His parents were "Joseph Wakefield-Kent," an accountant, and "Mame(?)" Meehan (her maiden name). There were two causes listed for Kent's death, one them being "senility." The other listed cause was not very legible. The full title of the death register is: 1949 Deaths Registered in the District of Orange And West Macquarie at Orange in the State of New South Wales. The file containing the death register in digital form was attached to a page of Joseph (Mick King) Wakefield Kent in the Family Tree section of the Ancestry.com genealogical website.

According to the page of Joseph (Mick King) Wakefield Kent page in the Family Tree section of Ancestry.com, he was born June 24, 1892 in "Newtown Sydney."

Rhonda Stanley (username: Magellannum) created the Joseph (Mick King) Wakefield Kent page in the Family Tree section on Ancestry.com. In a message to Chuck Johnston, Stanley wrote that her great-grandfather was the brother of Joseph (Mick King) Wakefield Kent's mother (whose maiden name was Mary Ann Lucy Meehan). She also wrote that Joseph (Mick King) Wakefield Kent's "birth record is a registration index from the NSW Birth, Death and marriages." Stanley listed the registration number of the birth as being 26212 and the birth year as being 1892. She wrote that evidence can be found in Australian newspapers that Joseph (Mick King) Wakefield Kent got in trouble with the law numerous times. She believed that he had injuries to his brain, adding that this may have been a factor which led him to get into mischief on a constant basis.