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This was Brown's first professional fight. The venue was the lower deck of an Ohio River excursion boat, about ten miles south of Cincinnati. There were about 150 observers.

During the fourteenth round, Brown was hit hard by an uppercut, but was saved by the bell. He stood up for the fifteenth, and then collapsed. Brown's father, who was present, stepped in and stopped the fight. The boat returned to Cincinnati. Brown was carried off on a stretcher, and he died on his way home.

Sources: ''New York Times'', January 29, 1893 (1892?); ''New York Times'', October 7, 1893.

Information courtesy of ''Death under the Spotlight: The Manuel Velasquez Boxing Fatality Collection'' [http://ejmas.com/jcs/velazquez/Muerte2011_pdf_Sep_2011.pdf]

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