Fighting Was My Business

Wilde, Jimmy

Published by Michael Joseph, London, 1938

About this Item

Rare autobiography of one of the greatest flyweight boxers of all time. Very good plus with one corner bumped, book plate on front pastedown, and a touch of creasing to top corner of first 50 pages, otherwise clean and bright inside and out. In a very good dust jacket (price intact) with wear at the spine ends and corners, a bit of fading to spine, and some soiling to rear panel. Wilde was a Welsh professional boxer who competed from 1911 to 1923. Often regarded as the greatest British fighter of all time, he was the first official world flyweight champion and was rated by American boxing writer Nat Fleischer as well as many other professionals as "the Greatest Flyweight Boxer Ever." Wilde earned various nicknames such as "The Mighty Atom," "Ghost with the Hammer in His Hand" and "The Tylorstown Terror" due to his bludgeoning punching power, and he would often take on boxers in higher weight divisions and knock them out. Wilde has the third longest recorded unbeaten streak in boxing history, having gone 92?0?1.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fighting Was My Business
• Publisher: Michael Joseph, London
• Publication Date: 1938
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very good plus
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good