 Owen lost the English championship on 22 Aug 1797 to well known boxer Jack Bartholomew in a thirty minute bout at Moulsey Hurst, England in twenty-six rounds.Owen met the great London boxer Daniel Mendoza in a grudge match on 20 July, 1820, at Banstead Downs.Mendoza, the far better boxer in his prime, had been absent from the ring for fourteen years and was six years older.