Buch, Englisch, 277 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 576 g
Essays on Fighters of the 1800s to the 1920s
Buch, Englisch, 277 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 576 g
ISBN: 978-1-4766-7980-8
Verlag: McFarland and Company, Inc.
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
Weitere Infos & Material
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword by Al Bernstein
- Introduction
- 1. Tom Molineaux: From Slave to American Heavyweight Champion
- BILL CALOGERO
- 2. George Godfrey: First Colored Heavyweight Champion
- TONY TRIEM
- 3. Peter Jackson: Heavyweight Champion of Australia
- BOB PETERSEN
- 4. George Dixon: World Bantamweight and Featherweight Champion
- MIKE GLENN
- 5. Bobby Dobbs: Lightweight Challenger and Father of Boxing in Germany
- KEVIN SMITH
- 6. Joe Gans: World Lightweight Champion
- COLLEEN AYCOCK
- 7. Dave Holly: "Challenger of the World"
- DOUGLAS CAVANAUGH
- 8. Joe Walcott, the Barbados Demon: World Welterweight Champion
- MICHAEL J. SCHMIDT
- 9. "Dixie Kid" Aaron Brown: World Welterweight Champion
- CATHY VAN INGEN
- 10. Jack Blackburn: From Lightweight Challenger to Trainer of Heavyweight Champions
- JOSEPH BOURELLY
- 11. Sam Langford: Heavyweight Champion of Australia, Canada, England, and Mexico
- CLAY MOYLE
- 12. Joe Jennette and Sam McVey: Colored Heavyweight Champions
- ALEXANDER PIERPAOLI
- 13. Jack Johnson: World Heavyweight Champion
- MARK SCOTT
- 14. Speedball Hayden: U.S. Army Middleweight Champion
- CHRIS COZZONE
- 15. Battling Siki: World Light- Heavyweight Champion
- PETER BENSON
- Appendix: The Great Fights, Round- By- Round
- George Godfrey vs. Peter Jackson (August 25, 1888)
- George Dixon vs. Jack Skelly (September 6, 1892)
- Joe Gans vs. Oscar "Battling" Nelson (September 3, 1906)
- Joe Jennette vs. Sam McVey (April 17, 1909)
- Jack Johnson vs. James J. Jeffries (July 4, 1910)
- Bibliography
- About the Contributors
- Index