Boxing

Sonny Liston was a legend, described by Mike Tyson as the baddest man boxing ever produced. From veteran sports reporter Shaun Assael, The Murder o...

One of the most recognisable, respected and inspirational men on earth, Muhammad Ali is the world's most famous boxing hero. Ali brought unpreceden...

Marvelous Marvin Hagler is a sporting legend. Often called the greatest middleweight boxer of all time, he held the world title for 12 defences, in...

Not many people have had as unique a journey as Kellie Maloney. Born Frank Maloney into a tough working class family in the 1950s, the young man gr...

Today Bill Richmond is largely unknown to the wider public, but he was one of the most significant sportsmen in history and one of the most promine...

Theodore 'Tiger' Flowers rose above the racist bigotry of the Deep South to become the first African-American middleweight champion of the world. T...

Conor McGregor's trainer tells the amazing story of his long road to success in the world's fastest-growing sportGrowing up in Dublin, John Kavanag...

When Carl Froch defeated George Groves in their Wembley Stadium re-match in front of 80,000 fans, it went down as the biggest fight in British boxi...

The Noble Art of Heavyweight Boxing is a knockout trip through the history of this popular sport, from the last thrilling bareknuckle contest in 18...

The sport of boxing is dying in a last explosion of dollars. Its beleaguered performers are reaching up for a last payday with bravery, one-liners ...

2014 marked the 25th anniversary of the first bout in the epic battle between Nigel Benn, Michael Watson and Chris Eubank to contest the WBO Middle...

Charlie Magri is one of the most popular boxers ever to have stepped into the ring. The exuberance and energy of the former WBC Flyweight Champion ...

Not many people have been a unique a journey as Kellie Maloney. Born 'Frank Maloney' into a tough working class family in the 1950s, the young man ...

Boxing is the top popular sport in Cuba and part of its cultural identity. The martial arts, often represented as warlike in form, acquire here an ...

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 ...