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Wednesday, November 17, 2021
Monday, November 8, 2021
Boxing in Atlantic City - Now Available!
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Tuesday, October 26, 2021
Arcadia Publishing Presents "Boxing in Atlantic City"
By TWI Staff
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Sunday, February 2, 2020
John Raspanti Interview
By Matt Ward
Author John Raspanti and I discussed his writing career and passion for boxing in a recent phone interview for The Weigh-In Podcast. John is the author of two boxing books, Intimate Warfare: The True Story of the Arturo Gatti and Micky Ward Boxing Trilogy (with Dennis Taylor) and the recently released Blood on my Notebook: Dispatches from the World of Professional Boxing.
Blood on my Notebook: Dispatches from the World of Professional Boxing, released on October 23, 2019, is a collection of stories and articles compiled by the author over the course of his career as a boxing writer and journalist.
Both books are available on Amazon.com.
You can also check out John's other work on Max Boxing.com and The Ringside Boxing Show.
You can stream our interview on both SoundCloud and iTunes.
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Thursday, January 10, 2019
Lew Jenkins: An Improbable Story of Redemption
By TWI Staff
Check out Luis Cortes' recent feature article for The Sweet Science on boxing historian and TWI contributor, Gene Pantalone's latest book, From Boxing Ring to Battlefield: The Life of War Hero Lew Jenkins.
Lew Jenkins: An Improbable Story of Redemption
Check out Luis Cortes' recent feature article for The Sweet Science on boxing historian and TWI contributor, Gene Pantalone's latest book, From Boxing Ring to Battlefield: The Life of War Hero Lew Jenkins.
Lew Jenkins: An Improbable Story of Redemption
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Sunday, August 26, 2018
Now Available for Pre-Order - From Boxing Ring to Battlefield: The Life of War Hero Lew Jenkins
Gene Pantalone's new book From Boxing Ring to Battlefield: The Life of War Hero Lew Jenkins is now available for pre-order on Amazon.com. The book will be released on November 15, 2018.
Book Summary from Amazon.com:
World champion boxer Lew Jenkins fought his whole life. As a child, he fought extreme poverty during the Great Depression; in his twenties, he fought as a professional boxer and became a world champion; and at the pinnacle of his boxing career, Jenkins fought in World War II and the Korean War.
From Boxing Ring to Battlefield: The Life of War Hero Lew Jenkins details for the first time this extraordinary story. Despite his talent for boxing, Jenkins often fought and trained in drunken stupors. Although he became the world lightweight champion, he soon wasted his ring title and all his money. Jenkins eventually found purpose during World War II and the Korean War, fighting in major battles that included D-Day, Bloody Ridge, and Heartbreak Ridge. His efforts earned him one of the highest decorations for bravery, the Silver Star. Unable to find meaning in life at the peak of his boxing success, Jenkins discovered values to which he could cling during war.
From Boxing Ring to Battlefield features exclusive interviews with Lew Jenkins’s son and grandson, providing a personal perspective on the life of this complicated war hero. The first biography of Jenkins, this book will fascinate boxing fans and historians alike.
Book Summary from Amazon.com:
World champion boxer Lew Jenkins fought his whole life. As a child, he fought extreme poverty during the Great Depression; in his twenties, he fought as a professional boxer and became a world champion; and at the pinnacle of his boxing career, Jenkins fought in World War II and the Korean War.
From Boxing Ring to Battlefield: The Life of War Hero Lew Jenkins details for the first time this extraordinary story. Despite his talent for boxing, Jenkins often fought and trained in drunken stupors. Although he became the world lightweight champion, he soon wasted his ring title and all his money. Jenkins eventually found purpose during World War II and the Korean War, fighting in major battles that included D-Day, Bloody Ridge, and Heartbreak Ridge. His efforts earned him one of the highest decorations for bravery, the Silver Star. Unable to find meaning in life at the peak of his boxing success, Jenkins discovered values to which he could cling during war.
From Boxing Ring to Battlefield features exclusive interviews with Lew Jenkins’s son and grandson, providing a personal perspective on the life of this complicated war hero. The first biography of Jenkins, this book will fascinate boxing fans and historians alike.
Wednesday, August 1, 2018
Madame Bey's Boys
In the golden age of boxing, it was the boxing camp where fighters prepared for battle. It is a forgotten part of boxing history. A camp was where boxing’s best prepared with colleagues for upcoming battles. They lived, ate, and trained together. Of all the boxing camps, the most famous was run by a woman, a woman who was a former socialite and friend to presidents. It was called Bey’s Training Camp. When a journalist asked her how a former aristocrat, socialite, and friend of presidents could operate a training camp for boxers in a brutal sport, she drew upon her past experiences for a succinct reply.
“Personally,” Madame Bey told the journalist, “I like men who fight in the open. I told a magazine writer the other day that the velvet glove of politics is infinitely more dangerous than the four-ounce glove of pugilism, and that is the best way I can express it.”
Maybe you can find one of your favorite boxers, trainers, managers, or celebrities, that attended the camp from the list below.
The following is an alphabetic list of people associated with boxing that were in Chatham Township, New Jersey, where Madame Bey's camp resided. Georgie Abrams, Lou Ambers, Fred Apostoli, Red Applegate, Ray Arcel, Freddie Archer, Henry Armstrong, Buddy Baer, Max Baer, Joe Baksi, Sam Baroudi, Billy Beauhuld, Tommy Bell, Steve Belloise, Paul Berlenbach, Melio Bettina, Carmine Bilotti, Whitey Bimstein, Jimmy Bivins, James Braddock, Jorge Brescia, Jack Britton, Freddy Brown, Al Buck, Red Burman, Mushy Callahan, Victor Campolo, Tony Canzoneri, Primo Carnera, Georges Carpentier, Jimmy Carter, Rubin Carter, Ezzard Charles, Kid Chocolate, Gil Clancy, Freddie Cochrane, Billy Conn, Jimmy Carrollo, James J. Corbett, Lulu Costantino, Cus D’Amato, Jack Delaney, Al Davis, Red Top Davis, James P. Dawson, Jack Dempsey, Gus Dorazio, Carl Duane, Chris Dundee, Johnny Dundee, Vince Dundee, Sixto Escobar, Tommy Farr, Abe Feldman, Freddie Fiducia, Jackie Fields, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Billy Fox, Humbert Fugazy, Charley Fusari , Tony Galento, Kid Gavilan, Frankie Genaro, Billy Gibson, Joey Giardello, George Godfrey, Arturo Godoy, Charley Goldman, Ruby Goldstein, Bud Gorman, Billy Graham, Frank Graham, Rocky Graziano, Abe Greene, Gus Greenlee, Emile Griffith, Babe Herman, Steve Hostak, Ace Hudkins, Herbert Hype Igoe, Beau Jack, Tommy Hurricane Jackson, Jimmy Jacobs, Joe Jacobs, Mike Jacobs, Joe Jeanette, Ben Jeby, Lew Jenkins, Jack Johnson, James Johnston, Doug Jones, Ralph Tiger Jones, Phil Kaplan, Jack Kearns, Frankie Klick, Johnny Kilbane, Solly Krieger, Jake LaMotta, Tippy Larkin, Benny Leonard, Gus Lesnevich, King Levinsky, John Henry Lewis, Isaac Logart, Tommy Loughran, Joe Louis, Joe Lynch, Eddie Mader, Nathan Mann, Rocky Marciano, Lloyd Marshall, Eddie Martin, Bat Masterson, Joey Maxim, Jimmy McLarnin, Mike McTigue, Jack Miley, Bob Montgomery, Archie Moore, Tod Morgan, Dan Morgan, Walter Neusel, Kid Norfolk, Lou Nova, Jack O’Brien, Bob Olin, Lee Oma, Carlos Ortiz, Ken Overlin, Benny Kid Paret, Floyd Patterson, Willie Pep, Billy Petrolle, Willie Ratner, Grantland Rice, Gilbert Rogin, Maxie Rosenbloom, Al Roth, Andre Routis, Irving Rudd, Bobby Ruffin, Damon Runyon, Sandy Saddler, Lou Salica, Johnny Saxton, Max Schmeling, Flashy Sebastian, Marty Servo, Jack Sharkey, Battling Siki, Eric Seelig, Freddie Steele, Allie Stolz, Young Stribling, Herman Taylor, Lew Tendler, Sid Terris, Young Terry, Jack Thompson, Jose Torres, Gene Tunney, Pancho Villa, Mickey Walker, Max Waxman, Al Weill, Charlie Weinert, Freddie Welsh, Harry Wills, Charley White, Johnny Wilson, Chalky Wright, Paulino Uzcudun, Jersey Joe Walcott, Ike Williams, Teddy Yarosz.
The article below was originally published on www.GardenStateLegacy.com in GSL Issue 36, June 2017. Since that date, I have discovered photographic evidence that Rocky Marciano and James J. Corbett visited the camp, bringing the total number of heavyweight champions to no fewer than 14 and International Boxing Hall of Fame inductees to 80. I also talked to people who remembered the camp, including Floyd Patterson’s doctor in 1959 and a man who sold soda for Madame Bey at a nickel a bottle as a boy in the mid-1930s.. He remembered Billy Conn, Tony Galento, and Max Schmeling. Since writing the book Madame Bey’s: Home to Boxing Legends, I have been given the opportunity to meet with many people that had attended the camp and the stories they remember.
"Madame Bey's Boys" by Gene Pantalone
Gene Pantalone
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“Personally,” Madame Bey told the journalist, “I like men who fight in the open. I told a magazine writer the other day that the velvet glove of politics is infinitely more dangerous than the four-ounce glove of pugilism, and that is the best way I can express it.”
Maybe you can find one of your favorite boxers, trainers, managers, or celebrities, that attended the camp from the list below.
The following is an alphabetic list of people associated with boxing that were in Chatham Township, New Jersey, where Madame Bey's camp resided. Georgie Abrams, Lou Ambers, Fred Apostoli, Red Applegate, Ray Arcel, Freddie Archer, Henry Armstrong, Buddy Baer, Max Baer, Joe Baksi, Sam Baroudi, Billy Beauhuld, Tommy Bell, Steve Belloise, Paul Berlenbach, Melio Bettina, Carmine Bilotti, Whitey Bimstein, Jimmy Bivins, James Braddock, Jorge Brescia, Jack Britton, Freddy Brown, Al Buck, Red Burman, Mushy Callahan, Victor Campolo, Tony Canzoneri, Primo Carnera, Georges Carpentier, Jimmy Carter, Rubin Carter, Ezzard Charles, Kid Chocolate, Gil Clancy, Freddie Cochrane, Billy Conn, Jimmy Carrollo, James J. Corbett, Lulu Costantino, Cus D’Amato, Jack Delaney, Al Davis, Red Top Davis, James P. Dawson, Jack Dempsey, Gus Dorazio, Carl Duane, Chris Dundee, Johnny Dundee, Vince Dundee, Sixto Escobar, Tommy Farr, Abe Feldman, Freddie Fiducia, Jackie Fields, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Billy Fox, Humbert Fugazy, Charley Fusari , Tony Galento, Kid Gavilan, Frankie Genaro, Billy Gibson, Joey Giardello, George Godfrey, Arturo Godoy, Charley Goldman, Ruby Goldstein, Bud Gorman, Billy Graham, Frank Graham, Rocky Graziano, Abe Greene, Gus Greenlee, Emile Griffith, Babe Herman, Steve Hostak, Ace Hudkins, Herbert Hype Igoe, Beau Jack, Tommy Hurricane Jackson, Jimmy Jacobs, Joe Jacobs, Mike Jacobs, Joe Jeanette, Ben Jeby, Lew Jenkins, Jack Johnson, James Johnston, Doug Jones, Ralph Tiger Jones, Phil Kaplan, Jack Kearns, Frankie Klick, Johnny Kilbane, Solly Krieger, Jake LaMotta, Tippy Larkin, Benny Leonard, Gus Lesnevich, King Levinsky, John Henry Lewis, Isaac Logart, Tommy Loughran, Joe Louis, Joe Lynch, Eddie Mader, Nathan Mann, Rocky Marciano, Lloyd Marshall, Eddie Martin, Bat Masterson, Joey Maxim, Jimmy McLarnin, Mike McTigue, Jack Miley, Bob Montgomery, Archie Moore, Tod Morgan, Dan Morgan, Walter Neusel, Kid Norfolk, Lou Nova, Jack O’Brien, Bob Olin, Lee Oma, Carlos Ortiz, Ken Overlin, Benny Kid Paret, Floyd Patterson, Willie Pep, Billy Petrolle, Willie Ratner, Grantland Rice, Gilbert Rogin, Maxie Rosenbloom, Al Roth, Andre Routis, Irving Rudd, Bobby Ruffin, Damon Runyon, Sandy Saddler, Lou Salica, Johnny Saxton, Max Schmeling, Flashy Sebastian, Marty Servo, Jack Sharkey, Battling Siki, Eric Seelig, Freddie Steele, Allie Stolz, Young Stribling, Herman Taylor, Lew Tendler, Sid Terris, Young Terry, Jack Thompson, Jose Torres, Gene Tunney, Pancho Villa, Mickey Walker, Max Waxman, Al Weill, Charlie Weinert, Freddie Welsh, Harry Wills, Charley White, Johnny Wilson, Chalky Wright, Paulino Uzcudun, Jersey Joe Walcott, Ike Williams, Teddy Yarosz.
The article below was originally published on www.GardenStateLegacy.com in GSL Issue 36, June 2017. Since that date, I have discovered photographic evidence that Rocky Marciano and James J. Corbett visited the camp, bringing the total number of heavyweight champions to no fewer than 14 and International Boxing Hall of Fame inductees to 80. I also talked to people who remembered the camp, including Floyd Patterson’s doctor in 1959 and a man who sold soda for Madame Bey at a nickel a bottle as a boy in the mid-1930s.. He remembered Billy Conn, Tony Galento, and Max Schmeling. Since writing the book Madame Bey’s: Home to Boxing Legends, I have been given the opportunity to meet with many people that had attended the camp and the stories they remember.
"Madame Bey's Boys" by Gene Pantalone
Gene Pantalone
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Monday, July 23, 2018
Welcome to the Team, Gene Pantalone!
We would like to welcome a friend of The Weigh-In, Gene Pantalone, to our team! Gene is a boxing historian and author who will serve as a contributor to the website.
Gene is an expert on the golden age of boxing—the years between 1920 and 1950—and Madame Bey’s boxing camp, which hosted 14 heavyweight champions and no fewer than 80 International Boxing Hall of Fame inductees. Pantalone is the author of Madame Bey’s: Home to Boxing Legends and From Boxing Ring to Battlefield: The Life of War Hero Lew Jenkins, which is due out November 2018.
Check out Gene's books via the below links:
Madame Bey’s: Home to Boxing Legends
From Boxing Ring to Battlefield: The Life of War Hero Lew Jenkins
Gene has also appeared on an episode of the podcast where he discussed his book, Madame Bey’s: Home to Boxing Legends. You can check out the podcast episode here.
Welcome to the team, Gene!
Gene is an expert on the golden age of boxing—the years between 1920 and 1950—and Madame Bey’s boxing camp, which hosted 14 heavyweight champions and no fewer than 80 International Boxing Hall of Fame inductees. Pantalone is the author of Madame Bey’s: Home to Boxing Legends and From Boxing Ring to Battlefield: The Life of War Hero Lew Jenkins, which is due out November 2018.
Check out Gene's books via the below links:
Madame Bey’s: Home to Boxing Legends
From Boxing Ring to Battlefield: The Life of War Hero Lew Jenkins
Gene has also appeared on an episode of the podcast where he discussed his book, Madame Bey’s: Home to Boxing Legends. You can check out the podcast episode here.
Welcome to the team, Gene!
(Gene Pantalone)
Saturday, May 5, 2018
Damon Feldman Interview
Matt Ward recently sat down with former professional boxer, Celebrity Boxing promoter, and author of the new book, The 16 Minute Man, Damon Feldman. Matt and Damon sat down following Damon's book release party at Chickie's and Pete's in South Philadelphia to discuss his book and boxing career.
Check out their Bonus Round interview on both SoundCloud and iTunes:
You can learn more about Damon Feldman and his new book, The 16 Minute Man, by visiting the official Damon Feldman website.
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Monday, January 8, 2018
The Weigh-In Podcast #14 (Frederick Romano - Boxing Writer and Historian)
The Weigh-In Podcast Episode #14
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The Weigh-In Episode #14 on iTunes
The fourteenth episode of The Weigh-In Podcast features my interview with boxing writer and historian, Frederick V. Romano.
Romano is the author of The Golden Age of Boxing on Radio and Television: A Blow-by-Blow History from 1921 to 1964. In this book, Romano explores the many roles that each medium played in both the development and the depiction of the sport. Principal among the topics covered are the ever-changing role of technology during the four-decade-plus period, how it impacted the manner in which the sport was presented to its public audience, the exponential growth of those audiences, and the influence radio and television had on the financial aspects of the sport, including the selective use of radio and television and the financial boom that the mediums created.
The Golden Age of Boxing on Radio and Television: A Blow-by-Blow History from 1921 to 1964 is available for purchase online through Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
The fourteenth episode of The Weigh-In Podcast features my interview with boxing writer and historian, Frederick V. Romano.
Romano is the author of The Golden Age of Boxing on Radio and Television: A Blow-by-Blow History from 1921 to 1964. In this book, Romano explores the many roles that each medium played in both the development and the depiction of the sport. Principal among the topics covered are the ever-changing role of technology during the four-decade-plus period, how it impacted the manner in which the sport was presented to its public audience, the exponential growth of those audiences, and the influence radio and television had on the financial aspects of the sport, including the selective use of radio and television and the financial boom that the mediums created.
The Golden Age of Boxing on Radio and Television: A Blow-by-Blow History from 1921 to 1964 is available for purchase online through Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
(MW, left, and Frederick Romano at the VBA Library in Philadelphia, PA)
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