MUCH MORE THAN A BOXING RING By Roger Zotti I hope [readers] smile, frown, laugh and cry, as they realize what this incredible artifact represents. When they finish the book, pause and think about what they have just read, I hope they conclude: There was no better portrait of a sport or our society […]
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NIPPER PAT DALY – A PRO AT AGE OF TEN! Book review by Patrick Myler Talk about sending a boy to do a man’s job. Pat Daly was aged ten – yes, that’s right, ten – when he had his first professional fight. When most kids of that age were out playing marbles, climbing trees
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A LOOK AT “THE NEBRASKA WILDCAT” By Roger Zotti Ace Hudkins was a blond thunderbolt in his heyday….His one thought was to get at his opponent and tear him to pieces. Ace fought as a lightweight and middleweight and, though never a champion, he could lick 99 percent of the guys who thought they were
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The Story of Welsh Boxing: Prize Fighters of Wales by Lawrence Davies BOOK REVIEW by John Ochs With his latest book, The Story of Welsh Boxing: Prize Fighters of Wales, Lawrence Davies traces the development of pugilism in Wales back to a time when exhibitions of “prize fighting,” as opposed to “boxing,” employed cudgels, staffs,
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Trainer Steve Canton FBHOF Class of 2009 discusses “The Fine Points of Training” and the comparison of “Old School” Boxing and the current boxing situation.
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MARK ALLEN BAKER DISCUSSES HIS BIOGRAPHY OF “THE LITTLE CHAMP” by Roger Zotti “[Abe] Attell was one of the most remarkable featherweights that ever stepped under a rope.” Quoted by Mark Allen Baker from the New York Evening Journal 1 As a Jew growing up poor in an Irish neighborhood in San Francisco, Abraham
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Jess Willard Heavyweight Champion of the World by Arly Allen BOOK REVIEW By Kelly Nicholson Near the end of 1908, the sporting world suffered trauma when a 30-year old black ex-stevedore named John Arthur “Jack” Johnson lifted boxing’s heavyweight championship from Tommy Burns in the remote venue of Rushcutters Bay near Sydney, Australia. Johnson’s sass,
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All sport disciplines have basic fundamentals and when problems occur, the great athletes return to the basics. Boxing is no exception, the problem being that there are very few teachers of “The Sweet Science”. Enclosed herein is my booklet regarding my methods of boxing fundaments. Dwaine Simpson Simpson’s Boxing Fundamentals
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The Brain Of A BoxerThis Very Important DocumentaryAvailable On Amazon, ITunes, and Google Play April 6th by Bobby Franklin A year and a half ago I had the opportunity to view Unforgotten: The Story Of Paul Pender, which has won numerous awards, at the Boston Film Festival. The movie, directed by Felice Leeds, looks at the
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