In the Ring With Bob Fitzsimmons - Part II: Three-Time Champion

Now available!

In the Ring With Bob Fitzsimmons - Part II: Three-Time Champion picks up where Part I left off, covering Bob Fitzsimmons' life and career after he won the world heavyweight championship all the way up to his death. Naturally, his fights and exhibitions with James J. Jeffries (both contests), Gus Ruhlin, Tom Sharkey, George Gardner (winning the world light heavyweight championship, his third world title), Jack O'Brien (both contests), Jack Johnson (crossing the color line), and Bill Lang (in Australia), and many others are all covered. New details about Bob's life and career are revealed. 384 pages.


https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/in...i-adam-j-pollack/1148927143?ean=9781949783117

https://www.amazon.com/Ring-Bob-Fit...+the+ring+with+bob+fitzsimmons,aps,177&sr=8-3

 

Great news. Fitzsimmons is a truly fascinating fighter. My sense is that he was something of a horrible human but a genius inside the ring, an inexplicably powerful puncher, one who seemed to gain power as he moved up divisions (even though he himself didn't pack on the pounds).

I thought you were done once the Dempsey series was over. As long as it seems that you can not stop, have you considered doing a book on Wills or Langford?

 

In the UK:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ring-Bob-F...65920582&sprefix=adam+j+pollac,aps,243&sr=8-1

 

great shot of fitzsimmons on that book cover, looking like the proud American world champion that he was with those patriotic shorts on, ha ha

 

Most folks don't realize that Fitzsimmons was a naturalized U.S. citizen.

 

I also felt that one was needed, since there is a lot of fog around Willards early career.

 

yeah that or choose to conveniently forget it

 

Yep, he was British, New Zealander, Aussie and American!