Lords of the Ring by Peter Corris

Lords of the Ring

A History of Prize-fighting in Australia

by Peter Corris

Cassell Australia, 1980, ISBN 0726913952, black and white photographic plates, paperback  

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, no inscriptions, age toned pages (see photographs)

“From the days of Les Darcy to the aftermath of World War II, the names of fighters have been household words – Ambrose Palmer, Jack Carroll, Ron Richards, Vic Patrick, Dave Sands, Jimmy Carruthers.
Lords of the Ring is the first history of Australian prize-fighting and traces it from the early bare-knuckle days to the introduction of gloves and Queensberry rules and into the twentieth century.
Peter Corris looks at a cavalcade of characters – shy country boys and street-wise city dwellers, roundhouse sluggers and skilled boxing masters, dour homely pugs and handsome good-time Charleys.  There were fortunes and reputations to be make in the ring.  But death waited there too, claiming novices, veterans, preliminary boys and champions.  Although few Australian boxers have won international success, Lords of the Ring shows that from Les Darcy’s era to the tie of Dave Sands the Australian fight game was at its best world-wide.”