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Jack Dillon: A Biography of Boxing’s Giant Killer  

Jack Dillon: A Biography of Boxing's Giant Killer   by Mark Allen Baker (Author) Description In the weight sensitive sport ...

New Jersey Boxing Hall of Fame Announcement

New Jersey Boxing Hall of Fame – Class of 2025 On Thursday evening, November 13, 2025, the New Jersey Boxing ...

Ali and Me: Through the Ropes (2025 Enhanced Edition) by Richard Kaletsky 

Ali and Me: Through the Ropes  (2025 Enhanced Edition) by Richard Kaletsky (Author) “Ali and Me” is unlike other Muhammad Ali books ...

Boxing’s Greatest Controversies: Blunders, Blood Feuds, and Mob Corruption by Louis Joshua Eisen

Boxing's Greatest Controversies: Blunders, Blood Feuds, and Mob Corruption Paperback – February 4, 2025 by Louis Joshua Eisen (Author) A provocative and revealing ...

Pennsylvania Boxing Hall of Fame

The Pennsylvania Boxing Hall of Fame (PABHOF) announced the names of 25 individuals who comprise the 2025 class of inductees ...

Atlantic City Boxing Hall of Fame Class of 2025

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (February 3, 2025) — Today the Atlantic City Boxing Hall of Fame (ACBHOF) unveiled the twenty (20) ...

Rochester Boxing Hall of Fame Class of 2025

The Rochester Boxing Hall of Fame will host its 33nd annual Hall of Fame banquet on Saturday, September 20, 2025, ...

Florida Boxing Hall of Fame Announcement

The official announcement for the Florida Boxing Hall of Fame Class of 2025 was made on Saturday afternoon at the ...

International Boxing Hall of Fame Class of 2025

The International Boxing Hall of Fame and Museum has announced the latest class of inductees, who will be honored during ...

Johnny Kilbane: The Boxing Life of a Featherweight Champion by Mark Allen Baker (Author)

Johnny Kilbane: The Boxing Life of a Featherweight Champion by Mark Allen Baker (Author) About the Book Holding the world ...

Connecticut Boxing Hall of Fame

The 18th annual Connecticut Boxing Hall of Fame induction ceremonies will take place this Saturday, November 2 at the Earth ...

Buffalo Boxing Hall of Fame

The Buffalo Boxing Hall of Fame has announced its 25th Annual Hall of Fame Dinner, honoring Western New York’s Boxing ...

UP TO SCRATCH New Revised Edition

UP TO SCRATCH NEW REVISED EDITION 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF ORIGINAL PUBLICATION The book will not be out for some months ...

The Promise of Women’s Boxing: A Momentous New Era for the Sweet Science By Malissa Smith

The Promise of Women's Boxing: A Momentous New Era for the Sweet Science (Hardcover – June 4, 2024) by Malissa ...

The Pennsylvania Boxing Hall of Fame (Images of Sports)  by John DiSanto (Author)

The Pennsylvania Boxing Hall of Fame (Images of Sports)  by John DiSanto (Author) DESCRIPTION The Pennsylvania Boxing Hall of Fame (PABHOF) was ...

Homicide Hank: The Life of Boxing Legend Henry Armstrong

Homicide Hank: The Life of Boxing Legend Henry Armstrong by Kenneth Bridgham (Author) They called him "Homicide Hank," "Hammerin' Hank," "Hurricane Henry," ...

Murder on Federal Street by Sean Nam

BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT Murder on Federal Street Tyrone Everett, the Black Mafia, Fixed Fights, and the Last Golden Age of Philadelphia ...

Tony Canzoneri: The Boxing Life of a Five-Time World Champion by Mark Allen Baker

Tony Canzoneri: The Boxing Life of a Five-Time World Champion  by Mark Allen Baker  Description At age 23, Tony Canzoneri already ...

Dick Tiger Inc.: Undaunted 

Dick Tiger Inc.: Undaunted by Justina Ihetu (Author) About the book A boxing enigma and arguably the most successful athlete in Africa's ...

Willie Pep: A Biography of the 20th Century’s Greatest Featherweight by Mark Allen Baker

Description Among the best pound-for-pound fighters of all time, Willie Pep (1922-2006) was a virtuoso of the squared circle. A ...

Clash of the Little Giants: George Dixon, Terry McGovern

Clash of the Little Giants: George Dixon, Terry McGovern and the Culture of Boxing in America, 1890-1910 Paperback – July ...

The first book on Atlantic City Boxing is now on sale

THE FIRST BOOK ON ATLANTIC CITY BOXING IS NOW ON SALE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - During the early years of Atlantic ...

Lou Ambers: A Biography of the World Lightweight Champion and Hall of Famer

Lou Ambers: A Biography of the World Lightweight Champion and Hall of Famer By Mark Allen Baker About the Book Born ...

My New Piano Composition, The Goldfield Rag, Dedicated to the Memory and Legacy of Joe Gans’s Goldfield Hotel by Eric B. Thompson

I'd like to share with the membership my new piano composition, The Goldfield Rag, inspired by the memory and legacy ...

Minnesota Boxing Hall of Fame

The Minnesota Boxing Hall of Fame has canceled it's annual banquet and induction ceremonies for 2022. The Minnesota Boxing Hall of ...

George Dixon: The Short Life of Boxing’s First Black World Champion, 1870–1908

BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT George Dixon: The Short Life of Boxing’s First Black World Champion, 1870–1908 By Jason Winders | Published by ...

The Life and Crimes of John Morrissey: Bare-Knuckle Boxing Champion, New York Gangster, Irish American Politician

The Life and Crimes of John Morrissey: Bare-Knuckle Boxing Champion, New York Gangster, Irish American Politician by Kenneth Bridgham (Author) ...

Shot at a Brothel: The Spectacular Demise of Oscar “Ringo” Bonavena

Shot at a Brothel: The Spectacular Demise of Oscar “Ringo” Bonavena By Patrick Connor Coming August 2021! Description In Shot ...

Eder Jofre: Brazil’s First Boxing World Champion  by Christopher Smith

Eder Jofre: Brazil's First Boxing World Champion   March 26, 2021 by Christopher J Smith (Author) DESCRIPTION: Eder Jofre: Brazil's First Boxing World ...

Connecticut Boxing: The Fights, The Fighters and The Fight Game

Connecticut Boxing: The Fights, The Fighters and The Fight Game by Mark Allen Baker (Author) Description Sandwiched between New York ...

Sporting Blood: Tales from the Dark Side of Boxing by Carlos Acevedo

Sporting Blood: Tales from the Dark Side of Boxing by Carlos Acevedo BOOK DETAILS: The essays that make up Sporting ...

Tough Man: The Greg Haugen Story

Tough Man: The Greg Haugen Story by Anthony Zute George Foreward by Jeff Fenech Description: From the rough streets of ...

New IBRO President Don S. Cogswell

It is my pleasure to announce the appointment of Don Cogswell as the new President and Executive Director of the ...

Don Cogswell

International Boxing Research Organization (IBRO) board of director Don Cogswell was inducted into the 2014 Florida Boxing Hall of Fame, ...

IBRO’s Harold Alderman Honored with MBE

Boxing historian Harold Alderman received an MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) for services to sporting heritage ...