{"product_id":"the-first-black-boxing-champions-9781476679808","title":"The First Black Boxing Champions","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e   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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eForeword by Al Bernstein\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1. Tom Molineaux: From Slave to American Heavyweight Champion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBILL CALOGERO\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2. George Godfrey: First Colored Heavyweight Champion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTONY TRIEM\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3. Peter Jackson: Heavyweight Champion of Australia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBOB PETERSEN\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4. George Dixon: World Bantamweight and Featherweight Champion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMIKE GLENN\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5. Bobby Dobbs: Lightweight Challenger and Father of Boxing in Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKEVIN SMITH\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6. Joe Gans: World Lightweight Champion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCOLLEEN AYCOCK\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7. Dave Holly: \"Challenger of the World\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDOUGLAS CAVANAUGH\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e8. Joe Walcott, the Barbados Demon: World Welterweight Champion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMICHAEL J. SCHMIDT\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e9. \"Dixie Kid\" Aaron Brown: World Welterweight Champion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCATHY VAN INGEN\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e10. Jack Blackburn: From Lightweight Challenger to Trainer of Heavyweight Champions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJOSEPH BOURELLY\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e11. Sam Langford: Heavyweight Champion of Australia, Canada, England, and Mexico\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCLAY MOYLE\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e12. Joe Jennette and Sam McVey: Colored Heavyweight Champions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eALEXANDER PIERPAOLI\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e13. Jack Johnson: World Heavyweight Champion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMARK SCOTT\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e14. Speedball Hayden: U.S. Army Middleweight Champion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCHRIS COZZONE\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e15. Battling Siki: World Light- Heavyweight Champion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePETER BENSON\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAppendix: The Great Fights, Round- By- Round\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGeorge Godfrey vs. Peter Jackson (August 25, 1888)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGeorge Dixon vs. Jack Skelly (September 6, 1892)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJoe Gans vs. Oscar \"Battling\" Nelson (September 3, 1906)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJoe Jennette vs. Sam McVey (April 17, 1909)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJack Johnson vs. James J. Jeffries (July 4, 1910)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Co Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040468074839,"sku":"9781476679808","price":23.74,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781476679808.jpg?v=1750946847","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-first-black-boxing-champions-9781476679808","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}