DYNAMITE GLOVES

'The Puncher always has a chance. Give me a guy who can punch, to manage, to bet on, or just to watch.' - Jimmy Johnston, ,The Boy Bandit, 1935 The fighters in this book were the guys Johnston was talking about. Terrible Terry McGover, the Brooklyn Terror; Rock-fisted Stanley Ketchel, the Michigan Assassin; Sam Langford, the Boston Tar Baby; Mighty Adam Jimmy Wilde; Jack Dempsey. The Manassa Mauler; Jock McAvoy, the Rochdale Thunderbolt; Max Baer, Boxing's Clown Prince; Homicide Henry Armstrong; Brown Bomber Joe Louis; Lew Jenkins, the Texas Mustang; Ageless Archie Moore; Dead End Slugger Rocky Graziano; Sweet as Sugar Ray Robinson; Iron-fisted Rocky Marciano - they all wore dynamite gloves when they went to work and some of their explosive exploits are related in the pages of this book.

Author John Jarrett has been a student of boxing since 1946, and has been writing about the sport since 1951 when his first article appeared in Boxing News. He still writes for the 'trade paper' today. His work has appeared in Boxing World, Boxing Weekly, International Boxing and since 1988 in the British Boxing Board of Control Yearbook. In 1978 he was appointed Northern Area Secretary for the British Boxing Board of Control, a position he still holds today.