The First Black Boxing Champions

Essays on Fighters of the 1800s to the 1920s
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4766-7980-8
Verlag: McFarland

Buch, Englisch, 277 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 576 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aycock, Colleen

Scott, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Kampfsportarten, Selbstverteidigung
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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

Über Autor(innen)

Colleen Aycock is a member of the International Boxing Research Organization and the New Mexico Boxing Hall of Fame. She lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico and is a contributor to other publications on the history of boxing. 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.