Wales and Its Boxers
The Fighting Tradition
Distributed for University of Wales Press
- Contents

Acknowledgements
Preface
Contributors
‘A Brutal Passion’: Bare-knuckle Bruisers and Mountain Fighters
Gareth Williams
‘Peerless’: The Life and Legend of Jim Driscoll
Paul O’Leary
Freddie Welsh: Welsh American
Dai Smith
Jimmy Wilde, the ‘Tylorstown Terror’
Gareth Williams
Hero of the Darkest Years: Jack Petersen
Peter Stead
‘Call me Tommy’: Tommy Farr the Tonypandy Kid
Dai Smith
‘Boxing Mad’ in Cardi-land, 1945-1955
Hywel Teifi Edwards
Black and White: Writing on Fighting in Wales
Daniel G. Williams
Entry of the Heavyweights: Erskine and Richardson
Peter Stead
Boxing through the Shadows: Howard Winstone, Eddie Thomas and Johnny Owen
Desmond Barry
Big Mac and his Boys: The Professional Boxing Environment in South Wales c.1960-1990
Stephen Malcolm Williams
Mannesmann to Maccarinelli: Boxing in Swansea
Huw Richards
On the Cusp: Into the Calzaghe Era
Martin Johnes
Afterword: Fighting On
Peter Stead, Gareth Williams and Dai Smith
Index
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