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Table of Contents Acknowledgements List of Photographs Boxing Firsts Famous Boxing Firsts Undefeated Fighters I Never Lost a Pro Bout I Only Lost Once Fighters With Just One Loss Great Trilogies Three Times To Do Battle Great Upsets in Heavyweight Title Bouts Longshots that Captured the Crown Come From Behind Kayoes ìThe Opera Ainít Over Till the Fat Lady Singsî [or the Final Bell Rings] Most Title Defenses Hanging on to My Title Greatest Punchers They Packed A Wallop Youngest Champions I Won the Title At an Early Age No Time to Waste for World Title Fighters Who Won the Title With Few Fights Great Fighters Who Never Received a World Title I Never Got My Title Shot Worst Heavyweight Challengers I Didnít Earn My Title Shot Hapless Heavyweights Big Guys Born to Lose in the Ring The Journeyman/Survivors Lasting Till the Final Bell Controversial Decisions When the Wrong Guy Wins Dirty Fighters Fouling is Part of My Game Prison Boxers Learning to Box in the Big House Cop Boxers On the Right Side of the Law Worst Ring Tragedies Death in the Ring Death Behind the Wheel Boxers Who Died in Automobile Accidents ëSuicide Solutioní Boxers and boxing personalities who killed themselves Like Father, Like Son Boxing in the Bloodlines Boxing Brothers Fighting Siblings in the Ring She Can Fight Too Female Fighters with Famous Male Relative-Boxers Boxers and Football Boxers who Loved the Gridiron Boxing B-Ballers Fighters with Hoop Dreams Boxing and Kickboxing Canít Fight with Your Legs Anymore Tough Man to Real Pro From the Minor Leagues to the Real Thing Boxer vs. Wrestler When Boxing and Sports Entertainment Shared the Squared Circle Highly Educated Boxers As Much Brains as Brawn Boxers/Referees From a Pugilist to the Third Man in the Ring Boxing Musicians Boxers With a Love of Music Heavyweights in Hollywood Big Guys Who Landed on the Screen Top Boxing Movies The Best of Cinema and Pugilism Real Boxing Personalities in the Reel Rocky Saga Appearing with Sylvester Stallone Boxing Figures in the Movie Ali On the Screen with Will Smith and Jamie Foxx Named by Ali Aliís nicknames for his opponents Famous Boxing Quotes Comments with a Lasting Legacy Boxersí Real Names I Changed My Name Hereís Your ëSugarí Fix Fighters Sweet as Sugar Just Call Me ëKidí Great Fighters Named ìKidî Nonagenarians I lived to the age of 90 and beyond Female Firsts On the Distaff Side Black Pioneers Paving the Way for the Next Generation Puerto Rican Greats Great Fighters from the Island Colombian Champions Champions from the South American Country Born in Georgia Fighters From the ìPeach Stateî Homegrown Heroes Fighting in My Own Backyard Debut Debacles I Lost My First Pro Fight Ring Weirdness Strange Stuff in the Ring Bibliography Index About the Authors
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Boxing Anecdotes