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Lords
of the Ring
The Triumph and Tragedy
of College Boxing's Greatest Team
Doug Moe
The glory days and tragic end of college boxing
Lords of the Ring
revives the exciting era—now forgotten—when college
boxing attracted huge crowds, outdrawing the professional bouts.
On the same night in 1940 when Joe Louis defended his heavyweight
crown before 11,000 fans in New York's Madison Square Garden,
collegiate boxers battled before 15,000 fans in Madison . . .
Wisconsin.
Lords of the Ring tells the whole extraordinary story
of how and why this popular college sport abruptly ended in 1960,
based on dozens of interviews and extensive examination of newspaper
microfilm, boxing records, and memorabilia.
"Doug Moe . . . has written a wonderful
book that brings back to life those last bittersweet days of
collegiate boxing. As a native Madisonian who grew up in the
shadows of the UW Field House, and who witnessed the match that
ended Charlie Mohr's life, I was amazed by Moe's research and
grateful that here, finally, is the true, unvarnished story."—David
Maraniss, author of They Marched into Sunlight
Doug Moe is
a daily columnist for the Capital Times in Madison, Wisconsin.
He is the author of The World of Mike Royko,
also published by the University of Wisconsin Press, which was
a Chicago Tribune Choice Selection of the Year.
For publicity information contact our publicity manager, phone: (608) 263-0734, email:
publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu
Additonal description from the cloth edition:
Under legendary coach John Walsh, the most successful coach in
the history of American collegiate boxing, University of Wisconsin
boxers won 8 NCAA team championships and 38 individual titles
from 1933 to 1960. Badger boxers included heroes like Woody Swancutt,
who later helped initiate the Strategic Air Command, and rogues
like Sidney Korshak, later the most feared mob attorney in the
United States. A young fighter named Cassius Clay also boxed
in the Wisconsin Field House during this dazzling era.
But in April 1960 collegiate boxing was forever changed when
Charlie Mohr—Wisconsin's most popular boxer, an Olympic
prospect—slipped into a coma after an NCAA tournament bout
in Madison. Suddenly, not just Mohr's life but the entire sport
of college boxing was in peril. It was to be the last NCAA boxing
tournament ever held. Lords of the Ring tells the whole
extraordinary story of Wisconsin boxing, based on dozens of interviews
and extensive examination of newspaper microfilm, boxing records,
and memorabilia.
"A story of exhilaration and heartbreak. . . . reads like
a Greek tragedy for the book's leading characters from Wisconsin's
glory days of boxing."—Tom Butler, retired sportswriter
and columnist, Wisconsin State Journal
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FIRST PAPERBACK
EDITION
October 2005
LC: 2004005363 GV
262 pp. 6 x 9 44 b/w photos
ISBN 0-299-20424-3 Paper $24.95 t
The cloth edition, pub date:
October 2004 is still available
ISBN 0-299-20420-0 Cloth $35.00 t
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