Fighting Men of London: Voices from Inside the Ropes

by Alex Daley

Fighting Men of London explores the lives of seven former professional boxers who fought in the capital between the 1930s and 1960s. Set around a series of interviews with the fighters, it resurrects a golden age when boxing was as popular as soccer in Britain, and when leading fighters were working-class heroes. Dramatic, poignant, inspiring, and at times funny, the book covers such subjects as booth fighting, exploitation in boxing, East...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1785314017
• ISBN13: 9781785314018
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Pitch Publishing
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"