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The Final Bell Rang for Chicago Boxing Historian J.J. Johnston
on November 4, 2022

By Doug Cavanaugh (With comments by Dan Cuoco, DS Cogswell, and Mike Silver) I received word that the Final Bell rang for Chicago boxing historian J.J. Johnston last month. He passed away in his beloved Chicago on November 4 at age 89. J.J. had been in deteriorating health in the past couple of years and […]

The Final Bell Rang for Chicago Boxing Historian J.J. Johnston
on November 4, 2022
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Book Review: “Damage: The Untold Story Of Brain Trauma In Boxing” By Tris Dixon

Book Review: “Damage: The Untold Story Of Brain Trauma In Boxing” By Tris Dixon Boxing’s Human Demolition Derby (Courtesy of Bobby Franklin’s Boxing Over Broadway, July 4, 2021) By Mike Silver The wealth of information contained in this remarkable book is more important than 100 medical papers about brain damage in boxing because it is

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The Night the Referee Hit Back: Memorable Moments from the World of Boxing

NEVER UNDERESTIMATE A REFEREE A review of Mike Silver’s The Night the Referee Hit Back By Roger Zotti Swing The Night the Referee Hit Back: Memorable Moments from the World of Boxing, the title of award winning boxing historian Mike Silver’s latest book, refers to what happened on January 27, 1970, in Toronto, when a

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The Night the Referee Hit Back: Memorable Moments from the World of Boxing by Mike Silver

The Night the Referee Hit Back: Memorable Moments from the World of Boxing by Mike Silver Foreword by Teddy Atlas What do Sugar Ray Robinson, Muhammad Ali, Marlon Brando, Sonny Liston, Woody Allen, Floyd Mayweather Jr., and Teddy Roosevelt all have in common? They are among the dozens of fascinating personalities who appear in Mike

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Starts in the Ring: Jewish Champions in the Golden Age of Boxing

Mike Silver does it Again!  PRESS RELEASE Mike Silver does it again! Another fistic literary knockout! STARS IN THE RING: JEWISH CHAMPIONS IN THE GOLDEN AGE OF BOXING         A Photographic History       By Mike Silver By the author of the critically acclaimed “The Arc of Boxing: The Rise and Decline of the Sweet Science”, here is

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