Peter Maher, a Galway born, and Dublin reared fighter, laid a
strong claim on sport's greatest prize, The Heavyweight
Championship of the world, in the 1890's. For over ten years he was
a top contender and his popularity was such that he was arguably
the most famous sportsman in America at the turn of the Twentieth
century. This popularity stemmed from his prodigious punching
power, good looks and affable, good-natured and easy-going manner.
He mixed with everybody from Presidents like Teddy Roosevelt and
William McKinley to Wild West icons Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson and
Judge Roy Bean and a multitude in between. Yet today he is
virtually unknown except to the anoraks of the boxing world. This
book attempts to address this situation. It traces his career from
the amateur days in Dublin, deals with all his big fights in the
United States and the famous contest for the World Title against
Bob Fitzsimmons in Mexico. It charts his downward spiral until his
death in 1940 in Baltimore. The book also contains a records
section where the career records of some forty of his opponents are
published, some for the first time and most at least revised with
corrections and additions. The book also contains many photographs
from the period and attempts by the use of contemporaneous
newspaper reports to accurately portray the man and his times.
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