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This title includes 100 epic encounters from the history of boxing. It includes topics ranging from the bare-knuckle fights of the nineteenth century to the big business of the modern era: over a hundred years of memorable boxing matches. It features chronological accounts of famous fights that chart the progress of the champions. It looks back at the landmarks in world boxing history, including the evolution of boxing rules. It is illustrated throughout with action-packed photographs and original press material. This volume tells the story of boxing through the contests that form the core of boxing lore - from the professionally trained pugilists of the classical era, who fought to the death with vicious studs strapped to their wrists, to today's heroes and their lives of riches and stardom. Eighty encounters are covered here in detail, each famous for either its savagery, artistry, controversy, rivalry, spectacle, or the size of the prize money. This is the ultimate companion for any serious boxing fan. Thousands of facts, stories, anecdotes and statistics make it a superb reference source, while over 250 illustrations bring to life the passion of the greatest moments in the sport's history.

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Peter Brooke-Ball was born in India in 1951, and educated at Wellington College and Exeter University. He left his career with British publisher Marshall Cavendish in 1986 to become a full time writer. Since then his sporting works have included Factfile Sport and the partwork Winners. Derek O'Dell has been involved in boxing since he first entered the ring as a young schoolboy fighter, weighing just 62 pounds. He began reporting boxing in Australia, covering the local fights, and continued his career as a boxing journalist when he returned to Britain. O. F. Snelling has been writing about boxing for over fifty years. Shortly after the Second World War he entered the book trade, in which he stayed for thirty-two years.

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