George Black

George MacDonald Fraser's Black Ajax is, ostensibly, a work of historical fiction about one particular prizefighter, a former slave named Tom Molineaux, who won his freedom with his fists, then briefly became the toast of London as a bare-knuckle boxer…

Richmond was a pioneering black boxer ? the trailblazer for the likes of Jack Johnson and Muhammad Ali. He began life as a slave in America in 1763, arguably the worst social circumstances a man or woman could be born into. By the time he was a …

A controversial ?celebrity? boxing match involving George Zimmerman, the Neighbourhood Watch member who shot dead an unarmed black teenager, has been called off after the promoter said he had received threats. News of the planned bout between the …