Old time fighters who need the benefit of a good biography

Thanks, hope you like it. It's a novel, most stuff really happened, most names have been changed. You can get it as an ebook or PDF right to your computer for $3.00 US.

You can also read the 1st chapter on Amazon or on my site.

 

Ad Wolgast,..... paddy Slavin..... Larry Foley....... Jack Broughton....... Bill Richmond.... Tommy Uren.

 

Old thread but interesting - here are my preferences:

Harry Jeffra
Eddie Cannonball Martin
Joey Archibald
Mysterious Billy Smith
Matty Matthews
Tommy Ryan
Honey Mellody
Corporal Izzy Schwartz
Rube Ferns
Barbados Joe Walcott
Bat Battalino
Dennis Andries
Paul Pender
Jimmy Carter
Frankie Genaro

 

Saad Muhammad
Hagler
Mike Gibbons
Hearns along with Kronk gym of that time frame 77-90 or so
Phila Middleweights of the 70's
Fritzie Zivic
Lou Ambers
A better Barney Ross book than what's available
Monzon
JMM has one but it's not translated. It's an autobiography.

 

Is “I Fought Them All: The Life and Ring Battles of Prizefighting Legend Tom Sharkey” not good?

 

Loads of the earlier lower weight fighters.

Tons of ones no one really talks about Paddy Duffy, Ike Weir, Billy Murphy to name just a few.

Is there a George Dixon biography?

 

An idea I had was a triple biography on Dan Creedon, Jim Hall, and Billy M'Carty three of the top middleweights around the time of Bob Fitzsimmons fighting out of Australia.

 

I thought it was excellent. Good luck finding a cheap copy though.

 

https://www.amazon.com/Shadowboxing...prefix=George+Dixon,aps,441&sr=8-1&ref=sr_1_1

 

Thank you. It is available on Kindle for $10.

 

That is a good price. I bought mine when it came out in hardcover and Amazon is listing 1 copy only for $372US

 

Anybody has this one? Do you mind making a scan/photo of any page of the bibliography, listing the sources the author used? I've been disappointed in so many books in the last years due to their choice of sources...

 

What book's come to mind when you make that statement Senya

 

Too many, unfortunately. It is understandable when someone like me, living in another country and not having interlibrary loans or physical access to different libraries, I have to rely only on what I can find online, but even then I'm trying to find 1) primary local sources; 2) all available primary sources. And I feel happy when I accidentally find a re-print of a report from an important source, that's not available online, in another newspaper. But no, these authors live in USA and they use one or two online newspaper archives and just go with what's available in them, using non-local wires, or quoting just one local newspaper from a city that had a dozen daily newspapers at the time.

I don't want to give exact names. The fact that they decided to write about this or that fighter is a great thing and I'm grateful to them for doing that. It's just that I am, as a boxing history researcher, expecting more writers to adhere to a standard set by Adam Pollack and Steve Compton (not that I don't see a way how their works could be improved too, but that's just me).

 

I'm curious, in what way?