The first part of Nat Fleischer's Black Dynamite: The Story of the Negro in the Prize Ring from 1782 to 1938. This volume follows the careers of pioneering Black boxers, covering decades of fights from the late 1700s to the 1880s.Featured in this volume are: Bill Richmond, Tom Molineaux, Henry Sutton, Sam Robinson, James Wharton, Massa Kendrick, Sambo Sutton, Young Richmond, Bob Travers, Bob Smith, John Perry, Jemmy Robinson, John Banks, Harry Woodson, George Godfrey, Peter Jackson...

Part of a series of personal profiles written by Nat Fleischer, the founding editor of The Ring magazine. A legendary figure in the sport of boxing, Fleischer witnessed many of these historic bouts firsthand and presents here a biography of the American "King of the Lightweights," Benny Leonard.Born in 1896 in a Jewish ghetto in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, Benny Leonard is often championed as the greatest Lightweight boxer of all time. His thirteen-year reign as an u...

Part of a series of personal profiles written by Nat Fleischer, the founding editor of The Ring magazine. A legendary figure in the sport of boxing, Fleischer witnessed many of these historic bouts firsthand and presents here a biography of the American Middleweight champion, "The Michigan Assassin," Stanley Ketchel.Born in 1886 from a Polish family in Belmont, Michigan, Stanley Ketchel is listed to this day as one of the greatest Middleweight champions of all time. Perhap...