Author(s): John White

Sports

There is something for every boxing fan in the Boxing Miscellany. Within these pages, there are hundreds of fascinating facts about pugilistic history on a wide range of topics, from world champions and great fights to scandals and controversies outside the ring. It also features famous quotes, biographies, fight reports, boxing records, lists and numerous trivia entries. As the items appear completely at random, it is not only a book to be read from cover to cover, but one to be dipped into and enjoyed in three-minute rounds. Researched with unflagging energy by an unrivalled master of the sporting factoid and fully revised and updated, this new edition of The Boxing Miscellany will bring hours of reading pleasure to every lover of the sport famously called by boxing writer A.J. Liebling "the sweet science".