In the decade following the onset of the 20th Century pugilism, now conducted under the auspices of the Marquis of Queensbury rules, had begun to develop lines of improvement that witnessed the ...

Jim Jeffries was a 330-pound alfalfa farmer who had left boxing behind six years earlier when he received the frantic call to defend the honor of his race. When he answered it, the “Fight of the ...

They called it “The Fight Of The Century” — and they actually meant it. A stadium was constructed solely to host the event, then it was torn down, moved from San Francisco to Reno, Nevada, and rebuilt ...

Racial supremacists hold two contradictory beliefs: 1) that one race is mentally and physically superior to another and 2) that at all costs the disdained race must never get a chance to prove that ...