This is the third book in Adam Pollack's series on the heavyweight
champions of the gloved era. Bob Fitzsimmons was boxing's first
pound for pound great, winning the world middleweight title before
becoming the world heavyweight champion (and later lightheavyweight
champ). Combining both crafty skill and crushing power, Fitzsimmons
was able to knock out heavyweights when he only weighed 158 pounds!
This meticulous and tremendously researched book uses multiple
local primary sources from New Zealand, Australia, and America to
chronicle Fitzsimmons' boxing career. It contains detailed fight
descriptions never before revealed, round by round reports, pre-
and post-fight analysis, daily training regimens, critical analysis
of opponents' careers, discussion of skills, techniques,
strategies, strengths, and weaknesses, and explains how legal,
political, social, and economic issues affected and impeded fights.
The book also includes stories of fixed fights, conspiracies, legal
battles, trials, threats of violence and imprisonment made by
governors, judges, and militiamen, and verbal jousting, taunting,
boasting, and even physical confrontations between Bob Fitzsimmons
and James J. Corbett. 464 pages, 63 photos and illustrations, 969
footnotes, bibliography, index, and appendix (containing a complete
Fitzsimmons career record). Adam J. Pollack is the author of John
L. Sullivan: The Career of the First Gloved Heavyweight Champion,
and In the Ring With James J. Corbett. He is a staff writer for
Cyberboxingzone.com, chair of USA Boxing's Rules and Regulations
Committee, a boxing coach and attorney living in Iowa City, Iowa.
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