Bare Knuckle Books about middleweights, welters, and light champions

I can't find much information about boxers below heavyweight from the 19th century. Does anybody know of any books or newpapers that talk about the exemplars of the different weight classes? Like wasn't the National Police Gazette the Ring Magazine before The Ring magazine? Where else would you hear about them? There must have been a sporting paper of some kind in Britain in the nineteenth century, since they've had newspapers since the 17th century. Shouldn't they have some equivalent?

I found some details from that time, but not a lot. Anything you historians could add or suggest would be appreciated.

lightweight champions
1820s
Barney Aaron


1850s
Joe Goss
Young Barney Aaron
Johnny Moneghan

1860s
Owney Geoghegan
Sam Collyer
Marcellus Baker
Arthur Chambers
Bat Mullins
Billy Edwards
1870s
Charlie Norton
Billy Edwards
Arthur Chambers
Marcellus Baker

1880
Jack McAuliffe

Middleweight champions
1870s
Mike Donovan

It also wouldn't hurt to maybe have a chronology of the great boxing writers.

*Oops, could a mod please move this to the classic section? Thanks.