Boxing in the

Los Angeles Area

1880-2005

By Tracy Callis and Chuck Johnston

417 photographs

162 pages

Softcover (8.5 x 11)

Book Description

Los Angeles has been regarded as one of the greatest boxing cities in the world for over a century. With a large fan base, Los Angeles also has been the home of many of the best and most exciting boxers. 

Boxing in the Los Angeles Area 1880-2005 is a pictorial history of the sport in Los Angeles County and speaks about Los Angeles area boxers such as Jim Jeffries, Solomon “Solly” Smith, “Mexican” Joe Rivers, Fidel La Barba, Jimmy McLarnin, Henry Armstrong, Enrique Bolanos, Art Aragon, Armando “Mando” Ramos, Bobby Chacon, Danny “Little Red” Lopez, Armando Muniz, Oscar De La Hoya, “Sugar” Shane Mosley and others. In addition, there were many boxers who were not residents of the Los Angeles area who became popular among local fans. They included Tommy Burns, George Godfrey, Alberto “Baby” Arizmendi, Ricardo “Pajarito” Moreno, Jose Becerra, Raymundo “Battling” Torres, Ruben Olivares, Jose Napoles, Carlos Zarate, Jose “Pipino” Cuevas and Julio Cesar Chavez. 

The Los Angeles area has been the site for a number of notable bouts such as the 1906 Tommy Burns-Marvin Hart Heavyweight Championship fight, the controversial 1912 Ad Wolgast-“Mexican” Joe Rivers bout and the 2000 contest between "Sugar" Shane Mosley and Oscar De La Hoya.

About the Authors

Tracy Callis has been researching boxing history and the records of boxers for 45 years and has produced rare, updated records for many boxers. He possesses an outstanding knowledge of boxing history and has a strong interest in boxers of all weight classes from every historical period.

 Callis is the Director of Historical Research for The Cyber Boxing Zone (www.cyberboxingzone.com) internet website and an Elector for the International Boxing Hall of Fame. He is also a member of the International Boxing Research Organization (IBRO) and a contributor to the British Boxing Board of Control Yearbook.

 In the past, he was a contributing editor to the Ring Record Book for a number of years and a member of the World Boxing Historians Association (WBHA). In 2002, Tracy co-authored the book, Philadelphia’s Boxing Heritage 1876-1976, and was a historical consultant on the Jim Jeffries book, A Man Among Men.

 Charles E. “Chuck” Johnston developed a strong interest in boxing and its history when Muhammad Ali made his storied comeback during the early 1970s. While attending the University of California at Santa Barbara in the middle 1970s, Chuck became interested in doing research on the history of boxing with a great emphasis on his home state of California. He would go on to find unrecorded bouts of numerous boxers who were active from 1880 to 1945.

Chuck is a member of the International Boxing Research Organization (IBRO) and an editor on the Boxing Records internet website (www.boxrec.com). In the past, he was a contributing editor to the Ring Record Book for a number of years and a historical consultant on the Jack Johnson biography, Unforgivable Blackness, The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, by Geoffrey C. Ward.

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The Irish Champion Peter Maher: The untold story of Ireland's only World Heavyweight Champion and the records of the men he fought.

by Matt Donnellon

Book Description

Peter Maher, a Galway born, and Dublin reared fighter, laid a strong claim on sport’s greatest prize, The Heavyweight Championship of the world, in the 1890’s. For over ten years he was a top contender and his popularity was such that he was arguably the most famous sportsman in America at the turn of the Twentieth century. This popularity stemmed from his prodigious punching power, good looks and affable, good-natured and easy-going manner.

He mixed with everybody from Presidents like Teddy Roosevelt and William McKinley to Wild West icons Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson and Judge Roy Bean and a multitude in between. Yet today he is virtually unknown except to the anoraks of the boxing world. This book attempts to address this situation. It traces his career from the amateur days in Dublin, deals with all his big fights in the United States and the famous contest for the World Title against Bob Fitzsimmons in Mexico. It charts his downward spiral until his death in 1940 in Baltimore. The book also contains a records section where the career records of some forty of his opponents are published, some for the first time and most at least revised with corrections and additions. The book also contains many photographs from the period and attempts by the use of contemporaneous newspaper reports to accurately portray the man and his times.  361 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #07-2554; ISBN 1-4251-5689-4; US$29.28, C$29.28, EUR20.00, £15.12

About the Author

Matt Donnellon was born in 1957, lives in Ireland and is employed as a store manager in the motor trade. He is married to Mary Steede, from Kilbannon, the birthplace of Peter Maher, and they have six children. The three girls are Grainne, Niamh and Tara while the boys, Shane, Niall and Brian all were boxers and all three were Connaught (West Ireland) champions. Matt is an Irish Amature Boxing Association (IABA) judge and also coach with his local Kilmaine Boxing Club, County Mayo. He is also a long time member of the International Boxing Research Organization, IBRO. 

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