The First Black Boxing Champions
Subtitle: essays on fighters of the 1800s to the 1920s
Publisher: McFarland & Co.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C.
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780786449910
Description: "Biographies: 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 (film of his defeat of former champion and "Great White Hope" Jim Jeffries was banned across U.S.); round-by-round coverage of historic fights"--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: 1. Tom Molineaux: From Slave to American Heavyweight Champion / Bill Calogero; title: 2. George Godfrey: First Colored Heavyweight Campion / Tony Triem; title: 3. Peter Jackson: Heavyweight Champion of Australia / Bob Petersen; title: 4. George Dixon: World Bantamweight and Featherweight Champion / Mike Glenn; title: 5. Bobby Dobbs: Lightweight Challenger and Father of Boxing in Germany / Kevin Smith; title: 6. Joe Gans: World Lightweight Champion; title: 7. Dave Holly: "Challenger of the World" / Douglas Cavanaugh; title: 8. Joe Walcott, the Barbados Demon: World Welterweight Champion / Cathy Van Ingen; title: 10. Jack Blackburn: From Lightweight Challanger to Trainer of Heavyweight Champions / Joseph Bourelly; title: 11. Sam Langord: Heavyweight Champion of Australia, Canada, England, and Mexico / Clay Moyle; title: 12. Joe Jennette and Sam McVey: Colored Heavyweight Champions / Alexander Pierpaoli; title: 13. Jack Johnson: World Heavyweight Champion / mark Scott; title: 14. Speedball Hayden: U.S. Army Middleweight Champion / Chris Cozzone; title: 15. Battling Siki: World Light-Heavyweight Champion / Peter Benson