Clash of the Little Giants: George Dixon, Terry McGovern and the Culture of Boxing in America, 1890-1910 Paperback – July 28, 2022 by Arne K. Lang (Author) About the book In the late 1990s, when boxing was rivaling the popularity of baseball, George Dixon and Terry McGovern were among its most famous practitioners. Their paths crossed in […]
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By Ray Wheatley – World of Boxing The Australian Boxing Hall Of Fame held their Induction Dinner on Friday at the Crown Casino hotel in Melbourne, Victoria with inductions for 2019 and 2020. President Brett McCormick said to Fightnews.com® “Congratulations to all the 2019 and 2020 inductees including former world champions Sharyn Anyos and Gairy
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During the early years of Atlantic City boxing, the fight game was bustling.
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Lou Ambers: A Biography of the World Lightweight Champion and Hall of Famer By Mark Allen Baker About the Book Born Luigi d’Ambrosio, Lou Ambers grew up in Herkimer, New York, during the Great Depression. He and his nine siblings watched their father lose his business. Then they lost their father. Taking to the ring as
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I’d like to share with the membership my new piano composition, The Goldfield Rag, inspired by the memory and legacy of boxing great Joe Gans’s Goldfield Hotel, one of the first if not the first so-called black and tan clubs in American history, estd. 1907 in Baltimore, MD. Premiered at the 2022 Scott Joplin International
The Minnesota Boxing Hall of Fame has canceled it’s annual banquet and induction ceremonies for 2022. The Minnesota Boxing Hall of Fame is a non-profit organization made up of five board members and six additional voting members, dedicated to honoring and preserving the names of those who have contributed to professional boxing during its history
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PHILADELPHIA’S BOXING HISTORY SCRAPBOOK 1843 to 2020 By Chuck Hasson Description This isn’t Hemingway or Liebling nor is it Silver, Toledo, Peltz or Oppenheim. Its just the pedestrian’s tour through Philly’s boxing past from the beginning to the present. A fight on a barge. Then watch two fighters squaring off in a makeshift ring pitched
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George Dixon: The Short Life of Boxing’s First Black World Champion, 1870–1908 by Jason Winders
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The Life and Crimes of John Morrissey: Bare-Knuckle Boxing Champion, New York Gangster, Irish American Politician by Kenneth Bridgham (Author) In 1855, New York City was scandalized by one of the most infamous murders in its history, that of gang leader Bill “the Butcher” Poole, the feared knife-fighter who later would inspire Daniel Day-Lewis’s character in Martin
