Boxing's greatest fighters
By: Bert Randolph Sugar
Publisher: Robert Hale; The Crowood Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9780709081616
Subjects: Boxers (Sports); Biography
Description: The author ranks in order of his opinion the one hundred top boxers. To obtain his rankings, he has taken them all and "reduced them in the mind's eye to the same height, the same weight, the same ring conditions" and come up with some unexpected answers.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Sugar Ray Robinson; title: Henry Armstrong; title: Willie Pep; title: Joe Louis; title: Harry Greb; title: Benny Leonard; title: Muhammad Ali; title: Roberto Duran; title: Jack Dempsey; title: Jack Johnson; title: Mickey Walker; title: Tony Canzoneri; title: Gene Tunney; title: Rockey Marciano; title: Joe Gans; title: Sam Langford; title: Julio Cesar Chavez; title: Jimmy Wilde; title: Stanley Ketchel; title: Barney Ross; title: Jimmy McLarnin; title: Archie Moore; title: Marcel Cerdan; title: Ezzard Charles; title: Sugar Ray Leonard; title: The Original Joe Walcott; title: Jake Lamotta; title: Eder Jofre; title: Emile Griffith; title: Terry McGovern; title: George Foreman; title: Johnny Dundee; title: Jose Napoles; title: Pascual Perez; title: Billy Conn; title: Ruben Olivares; title: Joe Frazier; title: Tommy Loughran; title: Sandy Saddler; title: Kid Chocolate; title: Abe Attell; title: Evander Holyfield; title: George Dixon; title: Maxie Rosenbloom; title: Larry Holmes; title: Ted 'Kid' Lewis; title: Marvelous Marvin Hagler; title: Pernell Whitaker; title: Carlos Zarate; title: Thomas Hearns; title: Battling Nelson; title: Beau Jack; title: Ricardo Lopez; title: John L. Sullivan; title: Carlos Monzon; title: Alexis Arguello; title: Carmen Basilio; title: Pete Herman; title: Charley Burley; title: Ike Williams; title: Kid Gavilan; title: Jack Britton; title: Dick Tiger; title: Pancho Villa; title: Panama Al Brown; title: Bob Fitzsimmons; title: Philadelphia Jack O'Brien; title: Tiger Flowers; title: James J. Corbett; title: Tony Zale; title: Tommy Ryan; title: Georges Carpentier; title: Sonny Liston; title: 'Kid' McCoy; title: Bob Foster; title: GFreddie Welsh; title: Joe Jeannette; title: Jim Driscoll; title: Jersey Joe Walcott; title: Peter Jackson; title: Ad Wolgast; title: Jack Dempsey, the Nonpareil; title: Manuel Ortiz; title: James J. Jeffries; title: Salvador Sanchez; title: Jimmy Barry; title: Carlos Ortiz; title: Roy Jones Jr.; title: Wilfredo Gomez; title: Aaron Pryor; title: Bernard Hopkins; title: Mike Gibbons; title: Jack Delaney; title: Johnny Kilbane; title: Willie Ritchie; title: Wilfred Benitez; title: Packy McFarland; title: Rocky Graziano; title: Lew Jenkins; title: Mike Tyson.