The First Black Boxing Champions

Essays on Fighters of the 1800s to the 1920s

Colleen Aycock, Mark Scott (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

302 Seiten

2021
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-7980-8 (ISBN)

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Presents fifteen chapters of biography of African American and black champions and challengers of the early prize ring. They range from Tom Molineaux, a slave who won freedom and fame in the ring in the early 1800s; to Joe Gans, the first African American world champion; to the flamboyant Jack Johnson.

This volume presents fifteen chapters of biography of African American and black champions and challengers of the early prize ring. They range from Tom Molineaux, a slave who won freedom and fame in the ring in the early 1800s; to Joe Gans, the first African American world champion; to the flamboyant Jack Johnson, deemed such a threat to white society that film of his defeat of former champion and "Great White Hope" Jim Jeffries was banned across much of the country. Photographs, period drawings, cartoons, and fight posters enhance the biographies. Round-by-round coverage of select historic fights is included, as is a foreword by Hall-of-Fame boxing announcer Al Bernstein.

Colleen Aycock, co-editor for the International Boxing Research Organization, was named to the New Mexico Boxing Hall of Fame and is the author, co-author or co-editor of five books on boxing. She lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Mark Scott, a novelist and former Golden Gloves boxer, lives in Austin, Texas. He is a contributor to other publications on the history of boxing.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword by Al Bernstein

Introduction

1. Tom Molineaux: From Slave to American Heavyweight Champion

BILL CALOGERO

2. George Godfrey: First Colored Heavyweight Champion

TONY TRIEM

3. Peter Jackson: Heavyweight Champion of Australia

BOB PETERSEN

4. George Dixon: World Bantamweight and Featherweight Champion

MIKE GLENN

5. Bobby Dobbs: Lightweight Challenger and Father of Boxing in Germany

KEVIN SMITH

6. Joe Gans: World Lightweight Champion

COLLEEN AYCOCK

7. Dave Holly: “Challenger of the World”

DOUGLAS CAVANAUGH

8. Joe Walcott, the Barbados Demon: World Welterweight Champion

MICHAEL J. SCHMIDT

9. “Dixie Kid” Aaron Brown: World Welterweight Champion

CATHY VAN INGEN

10. Jack Blackburn: From Lightweight Challenger to Trainer of Heavyweight Champions

JOSEPH BOURELLY

11. Sam Langford: Heavyweight Champion of Australia, Canada, England, and Mexico

CLAY MOYLE

12. Joe Jennette and Sam McVey: Colored Heavyweight Champions

ALEXANDER PIERPAOLI

13. Jack Johnson: World Heavyweight Champion

MARK SCOTT

14. Speedball Hayden: U.S. Army Middleweight Champion

CHRIS COZZONE

15. Battling Siki: World Light- Heavyweight Champion

PETER BENSON

Appendix: The Great Fights, Round- By- Round

George Godfrey vs. Peter Jackson (August 25, 1888)

George Dixon vs. Jack Skelly (September 6, 1892)

Joe Gans vs. Oscar “Battling” Nelson (September 3, 1906)

Joe Jennette vs. Sam McVey (April 17, 1909)

Jack Johnson vs. James J. Jeffries ( July 4, 1910)

Bibliography

About the Contributors

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	01.09.2021
Zusatzinfo	100 photos, appendix, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	544 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Kampfsport / Selbstverteidigung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4766-7980-0 / 1476679800
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-7980-8 / 9781476679808
Zustand	Neuware