BOOK REVIEW by THOMAS HAUSER — George Dixon was boxing’s first Black world champion. “For a decade leading into the twentieth century,” Jason Winders writes, “few...
Color ought not to cut any figure in the ring so long as a man is willing to do his best. – Joe Gans As 1903...
Where did you get this fellow? – Joe Gans, November 14 1902. I have embarked upon some difficult projects over the past thirteen years writing about...
Boxing Odds and Ends: Weekend Betting Preview and Obits Several of my acquaintances have a bank of TVs in a room of their home. They are...
The black champion walked to his corner at once and began preparations for departure while McPartland was still struggling against fate on the floor. – The...
Gans left the ring without a scratch – The Brooklyn Eagle, 25th July, 1902. Rufe Turner was a puncher. Between the dawn of the twentieth century...
This was the seventh meeting of the rival lightweights. In all previous ones McFadden held his own, making a brave stand against the colored wonder. Since...
The lightninglike character of the defeat struck consternation into the hearts of the thousand Erne men at the ringside. They were dumfounded. Their champion had met...
Joe Gans of Baltimore lost the confidence and respect of the sporting public last night by deliberately quitting in the twelfth round of the bout with...
“—C’mon!” said Teofimo Lopez with two seconds left in the 12th round. It was a Brooklyn thing to say on a Brooklyn-type Saturday night, and Lopez...