MARK ALLEN BAKER DISCUSSES HIS BIOGRAPHY OF “THE LITTLE CHAMP” by Roger Zotti “[Abe] Attell was one of the most remarkable featherweights that ever stepped under a rope.” Quoted by Mark Allen Baker from the New York Evening Journal 1 As a Jew growing up poor in an Irish neighborhood in San Francisco, Abraham […]
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Jess Willard Heavyweight Champion of the World by Arly Allen BOOK REVIEW By Kelly Nicholson Near the end of 1908, the sporting world suffered trauma when a 30-year old black ex-stevedore named John Arthur “Jack” Johnson lifted boxing’s heavyweight championship from Tommy Burns in the remote venue of Rushcutters Bay near Sydney, Australia. Johnson’s sass,
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LIGHTS, CAMERA, AND ACTION! A review of Samuel Hawley’s The Fight That Started the Movies By Roger Zotti Samuel Hawley’s latest book, the aptly titled The Fight that Started the Movies: The World Heavyweight Championship, The Birth of Cinema and the First Feature Length Film, will please boxing fans, history buffs, and lovers of a
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The latest work from local sportswriter and author Rich Pagano, entitled “The Baron of Leiperville,” recounts the life and times of James F. Dougherty
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The Nelson-Wolgast Fight and the San Francisco Boxing Scene, 1900-1914by Arne K. Lang IBRO Book Review by Clay Moyle Arne Lang’s new book is focused on the February 22, 1910 40-round marathon for the lightweight title between “Battling” Nelson and Ad Wolgast in Point Richmond, California and their respective careers and post-career lives. But, he
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Uncrowned Champions is a collection of essays recounting the greatness and the tragic oversight of prize fighters from the first half of the 20th century.
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‘The First Black Boxing Champions’ is a definite ‘must read’ by all Americans whether a boxing fan or not.
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Finally! Someone has written a book about boxing’s first African American world champion, and a man that many boxing historians consider the greatest lightweight ever. Colleen Aycock and Mark Scott are to be commended for producing this long overdue biography of Joe Gans, a.k.a. “The Old Master”.
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If you’ve ever wondered how boxing superstars like Roy Jones Jr., Bernard Hopkins, Oscar De La Hoya, Floyd Mayweather, Jr., Lennox Lewis, Mike Tyson, Pernell Whitaker, Marvin Hagler and Roberto Duran would have done against their counterparts of decades past—wonder no more.
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