An edition of The First Black Boxing Champions
(2010)
The First Black Boxing Champions
essays on fighters of the 1800s to the 1920s
by Colleen Aycock
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This volume presents fifteen chapters of biography of African American and black champions and challengers of the early prize ring. They range from Tom Molineaux, a slave who won freedom and fame in the ring in the early 1800s; to Joe Gans, the first African American world champion; to the flamboyant Jack Johnson, deemed such a threat to white society that film of his defeat of former champion and "Great White Hope" Jim Jeffries was banned across much of the country. Photographs, period drawings, cartoons, and fight posters enhance the biographies. Round-by-round coverage of select historic fights is included, as is a foreword by Hall-of-Fame boxing announcer Al Bernstein. - Publisher.
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First Black Boxing Champions: Essays on Fighters of the 1800s to The 1920s
2021, McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
in English
1476679800 9781476679808
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The First Black Boxing Champions: essays on fighters of the 1800s to the 1920s
2010, McFarland & Co.
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in English
0786449918 9780786449910
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Table of Contents
1. Tom Molineaux: From Slave to American Heavyweight Champion / Bill Calogero
2. George Godfrey: First Colored Heavyweight Campion / 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
7. Dave Holly: "Challenger of the World" / Douglas Cavanaugh
8. Joe Walcott, the Barbados Demon: World Welterweight Champion / Cathy Van Ingen
10. Jack Blackburn: From Lightweight Challanger to Trainer of Heavyweight Champions / Joseph Bourelly
11. Sam Langord: 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
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