Mountain Fighters. Lost Tales of Welsh Boxing by Lawrence Davies is a very well written and meticulously researched piece of work that will fill one in on the rich history of Welsh boxing and the men who really laid the groundwork for the better known greats that followed them such as Jim Driscoll, Freddie Welsh and Jimmy Wilde. Davies book is comprised of 437 pages and provides story after story of the hard lives and fights of the men who fought bare-fisted in the mountains to avoid the law or in the fairground boxing booths. I found it particularly interesting to read about Driscoll's early education from the boxing booths, first as a witness of numerous fights and then later as a participant himself. I also learned an awful lot about some early great Welsh fighters that I had no previous knowledge of as a result of this book and highly recommend it.
Love a good biography/auto biography or documentary style books on fighters or fgihts. Read dozens now and i'm rarely left feeling short changed, when people talk of the Golden Era its clear to see why its named so. Class times before PPV and numerous governing bodies, less politics and finance just pugilism at its best. The closest we will get to reliving them days is through book and video.
