Boxing

A stroll around Merthyr town centre demonstrates the importance of the fight game in the borough's history. Where else on the planet can you find n...

This is the portrait gallery of pugilists. You can discover boxing's greatest era - from the 1850s to the 1890s - when bare-knuckle fighting had it...

Covering the years 1890 to 1910, this volume profiles the boxers who were acting during boxing's Golden Age, focusing primarily on George Kid Lavig...

Booklist called Straight Writes and Jabs, last years collection of boxing articles by Thomas Hauser, wonderful writing from a world-class jour­nali...

This work brings a fresh perspective to the history of modern prizefighting, a sport which has evolved over several centuries to become one of ...

Among the great lightweights of the 1940s and 1950s, Boxing Hall of Famer Sidney Beau Jack Walker (1921-2000) was virtually orphaned by his pare...

It is often forgotten that 11 African Americans, including a musician, were among the First Fleet of colonial settlers to Australia. In the 150-plu...

Inside Madison Square Garden, the City Ring was the altar of pugilism from 1925 until 2007. Hosting countless championship fights, historic main ev...

A Sunday Times Book of the Year'Rahaman has, at last, written the definitive biography on his late brother, which tells the real Ali story' - Mike ...

The world heavyweight boxing championship once transcended the sport, conferring global renown. This book gives detailed coverage to five legend...

A member of the USA's stellar 1984 Olympic boxing team, Paul Banke then scaled the heights as a professional to become world champion in 1990. Unfo...

In 1912 boxing was as popular a spectator sport in the United States as baseball, if not more so. It was also rife with corruption and surrounded b...

Aged fifty, on a whim, Marion Dunn joined a boxing gym. Training to improve fitness quickly became something of an addiction, and then a source of ...

Established in 1883, the Olympic Club catered to a variety of pursuits from target shooting to billiards to boxing--the most popular sport in Ne...

Boxing might not have survived the 1930s if not for Max Baer. A contender for every heavyweight championship 1932-1941, California's Glamour Boy b...

Has everything been said about Muhammad Ali, once the most famous man in the world? No. There is one special bout that has, over time, been largely...