britishnewspaperarchive and newspaperarchive both provide British newspapers from that era (for the 1700s the one without 'british' is a better...
As for best books, I don't know what to recommend. I didn't quite like any of them. Best book on pre-Broughton era is likely...
I'd say it's more of a social study than a boxing book per se.
During the 1820s it was probably the best time to have multiple perspectives, like I said, you could find half a dozen or more different reports...
Sporting journalism, and pugilism reporting in particular, was born in late 18th century. The earliest known figure we know, who started reporting...
Don't expect anything dated before 1790 covered in details. Don't expect multiple sources to cover what had taken place before 1815-1820. During...
1881-05-17 The Boston Daily Globe A more orderly crowd it would be hard to find than those on board, and although it was feared at first that the...
Pure BS. 1st, there weren't many good bare knuckle fighters in the 1880s. 2nd, it doesn't take much class to last 5 rounds in a LPR fight.
How to punch the bag - by Young Corbett, 1904 The genesis of the present air inflated apparatus was a large canvas bag filled with sand or...
I think the artist of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper just made it up.
Keeping a mental counter during the round, adding 0.5's or 1's to one or the other fighter, depending on how hard and clean the punch was, in my...
There was a book titled "New ideas of boxing" by Corbett, published in late 1894 or early 1895, but unfortunately I never found anything except...
