Suster, Gerald – Champions of the Ring, The Lives and Times of Boxing’s Heavyweight Heroes

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Suster, Gerald ‘Champions of the Ring, The Lives and Times of Boxing’s Heavyweight Heroes’ 1992 1st ed. 326 pages. VG/VG (3) $20 each.

Champions of the Ring: The Lives and Times of Boxing’s Heavyweight Heroes is a comprehensive sports biography anthology written by Gerald Suster and published as a first edition hardcover by Robson Books on January 1, 1992.

Book Summary & Description:
Serving as the direct precursor and companion volume to Suster’s 1994 lightweight history, this book offers a detailed, champ-by-champ retrospective dedicated entirely to the glamour class of boxing: the heavyweights. Suster, an English historian and former amateur boxer, crafted the book as a centenary tribute to the modern heavyweight lineage, tracing the evolution of the title over more than a century.
The book features chronologically arranged profiles examining the dramatic lives and professional careers of all 30 world heavyweight champions starting from John L. Sullivan (who won the title under Marquis of Queensberry rules in 1882) up through Evander Holyfield (who held the title at the turn of the 1990s). Suster provides capsule biographies of each fighter, dissects their toughest and most defining ring battles, explores their out-of-ring personal triumphs and tragedies, and offers his own analytical speculation on which legendary champion truly reigns supreme as the greatest of all time.

Physical & Publication Details:
• Author: Gerald Suster
• Publisher: Robson Books Ltd (London)
• Publication Date: 1992 (First UK Edition)
• Format: Hardcover with a protective dust jacket
• Length: 326 pages
• ISBN-10: 0860518108
• ISBN-13: 9780860518105