The Definitive History of World Championship Boxing volumes 1-4

[Batman]

Has anyone else seen these? they sound good but at £25 a pop I'd rather hear from someone who has actually read them before I take a punt on them.



Boxing fans might be interested to learn that world-renowned boxing historian Barry Hugman, who has spent around 30 years on this project, has finally published an astonishing 4-volume series of books providing the “Definitive History of World Championship Boxing”.

This epic series is the result of more than 30 years of research by world-renowned boxing historian Barry J. Hugman, who has scoured libraries, newspapers and relevant institutions across several countries to pull together the most complete history of world championship boxing. Invaluable
assistance on early British material has been provided by Harold Alderman MBE. From the 1870s to October 2016 all newly discovered and known world championship bouts and title claims have been chronologically listed, together with the result and brief fight summary and, where known, the venues, scorecards and referees are provided too.

It’s a story of amazing fights, questionable decisions, riots, police intervention, scandals, and bravery, featuring countless legends of the ring.
Each book forms one part of a unique 4-volume series which together, combining in excess of an incredible one-and- a-quarter million words, presents the most comprehensive history of world championship boxing ever published!

Individual book details are:

The Definitive History of World Championship Boxing - Mini Fly to Bantamweight
Featuring the likes of Jimmy Barry, Joe Bowker, Johnny Coulon, Kid Williams, Pete Herman, Panama Al Brown, Manuel Ortiz, Eder Jofre, Ruben Olivares, Kaosai Galaxy, Jimmy Wilde, Benny Lynch, Pascual Perez, Myung-Woo Yuh and Ricardo Lopez.

The Definitive History of World Championship Boxing – Junior Feather to Lightweight
Featuring the likes of Jack McAuliffe, George Lavigne, Joe Gans, Benny Leonard, Tony Canzoneri, Ike Williams, Carlos Ortiz, Roberto Duran, Johnny Dundee, Kid Chocolate, Alexis Arguello, Wifredo Gomez, Azumah Nelson, Marco Antonio Barrera, George Dixon, Terry McGovern, Young Corbett, Abe Attell, Jim Driscoll, Johnny Kilbane, Willie Pep, Sandy Saddler, Vicente Saldivar, Prince Naseem Hamed, Jeff Fenech and Erik Morales.

The Definitive History of World Championship Boxing – Junior Welter to Middleweight
Featuring the likes of 'The Nonpareil' Jack Dempsey, Tommy Ryan, Stan Ketchel, Harry Greb, Tiger Flowers, Rocky Graziano, Jake LaMotta, Sugar Ray Robinson, Carlos Monzon, Marvin Hagler, Gennady Golovkin, Sugar Ray Leonard, Thomas Hearns, Oscar De La Hoya, Floyd Mayweather, Mike Gibbons, Ted Kid Lewis, Jack Britton, Mickey Walker, Jimmy McLarnin, Barney Ross, Henry Armstrong, Emile Griffith, Jose Napoles, Manny Pacquiao, Jack Kid Berg, Wilfred Benitez and Julio Carlos Chavez.

The Definitive History of World Championship Boxing – Super Middle to Heavyweight
Featuring the likes of John L. Sullivan, James J. Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons, Jack Johnson, Jack Dempsey, Gene Tunney, Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano, Sonny Liston, Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, George Foreman, Mike Tyson, Tyson Fury, Evander Holyfield, Joe Choynski, Sam Langford, Jack 'The Giant Killer' Dillon, Battling Levinsky, Georges Carpentier, Archie Moore, Roy Jones, Andre Ward, Nigel Benn, Chris Eubank, James Toney and Joe Calzaghe.

[Master]

It sounds good but I will wait until it goes to a Library.

[vidgil]

Barry HUGMAN lol sounds like an alias Wladimir would use. I wonder if the Hugman's are related to the Klitschkko's?

[Alpha]

I remember seeing them advertised a few months back but wasn't really interested. All the info is on the net anyway if you require it. Also I'm not sure if it covers lineage or not but once you start getting into that it can be very subjective. The big one for me is Armstrong's Welterweight run. It should have been interrupted with the Ambers loss and then started again with the Jenkins win.