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Carefully documents the ruin waiting for almost all those ill-advised enough to become professional boxers. He confirms all the legends, of crime, of swindling, of the miserable economic rewards allotted to the vast majority of fighters . . . the traditional racism of the American ring. . . . No one, reading Sammons, can doubt that it is evil. --Times Literary Supplement Insightful, enjoyable, and stimulating. . . . Should be read by anyone wishing to gain a better understanding of the role that boxing has played in shaping American attitudes and values. --Journal of Southern History

Carefully documents the ruin waiting for almost all those ill-advised enough to become professional boxers. He confirms all the legends, of crime, of swindling, of the miserable economic rewards allotted to the vast majority of fighters... the traditional racism of the American ring... No one, reading Sammons, can doubt that it is evil. -- Times Literary Supplement

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Jeffrey T. Sammons is a professor of history at New York University. He is the coauthor of Harlem's Rattlers and the Great War: The Undaunted 369th Regiment and the African American Quest for Equality.

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