Part of a series of personal profiles written by Nat Fleischer, the founding editor of The Ring magazine. A legendary figure in the sport of boxing, Fleischer witnessed many of these historic bouts firsthand and presents here a biography of the American Middleweight champion, "The Michigan Assassin," Stanley Ketchel.Born in 1886 from a Polish family in Belmont, Michigan, Stanley Ketchel is listed to this day as one of the greatest Middleweight champions of all time. Perhap...

Veteran and expert boxing writer Nat Fleischer recounts the career of Terrible Terry McGovern, who dominated the Bantam and Featherweight classes at the turn of the 20th Century. Still regarded as one of the most destructive and effective Bantamweights of all time, a stocky, fast body puncher who won 45 of his fights via knock-out in an age of iron men.Historian Barry Deskins wrote, "Short blows to the body followed by a viscous straight right is McGovern's strongest asset, particul...

THE TRUE STORY OF THE MANASSA MAULERHe started out as a mine mucker and digger in construction camps. He fought anybody, anywhere. He got $2.50 for his first "regular" match. He was a hungry, penniless kid. Then almost overnight he was champion of the world and a millionaire and the idol of the nation.IT'S ALL HERE—THE WHOLE THRILLING TRUTH!...the amazing story of the massacre of Giant Jess Willard, who was supposed to beat Dempsey to a pulp but who couldn't come out f...

Nat Fleischer's memoir is a ringside chronicle of boxing's drama, romance, and hard-edged business, told by one of the sport's most seasoned witnesses. Drawing on more than fifty years in journalism and promotion, he celebrates the "sour science" as a world of courage, ambition, illusion, and hero worship, where champions are made and unmade by the chase as much as the crown. Along the way he offers vivid portraits of great fighters, memorable conversations with men like Freddy Welsh and G...

The first part of Nat Fleischer's Black Dynamite: The Story of the Negro in the Prize Ring from 1782 to 1938. This volume follows the careers of pioneering Black boxers, covering decades of fights from the late 1700s to the 1880s.Featured in this volume are: Bill Richmond, Tom Molineaux, Henry Sutton, Sam Robinson, James Wharton, Massa Kendrick, Sambo Sutton, Young Richmond, Bob Travers, Bob Smith, John Perry, Jemmy Robinson, John Banks, Harry Woodson, George Godfrey, Peter Jackson...