Boxing and the Mob explores the heavy influence of the mob on boxing in the 1930s through the early 1960s. It profiles boxers such as Abe Attell and Sonny Liston and infamous mobsters including Owney
This book follows the lives and careers of two Jewish boxers, Max Baer and Barney Ross, who fought in the 1920s and 1930s when anti-Semitism was rife in the United States and Europe. American Jews nee
Rocky Graziano, juvenile delinquent, middleweight boxing champion, and comedic actor, was the last great fighter from the golden age of boxing, the era of Joe Louis, Jake LaMotta, and Sugar Ray Robins