Wednesday 21 May 2014

Dick Tiger Biography - Essential Reading on University Course


With  Michael Gennaro. Michael is a Canadian doctoral candidate at the University of Florida who is researching into Nigerian boxing from 1920 to 1970. One of the courses which he teaches is the history of African sport and my book, Dick Tiger: The Life and Times of a Boxing Immortal is essential reading because of its social, political and historical contexts.


Sunday 11 May 2014

Dick Tiger versus Rubin Carter

Rubin Carter felled by Dick Tiger | May 20th 1965, Madison Square Garden, New York City