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…
The forgotten hope of British boxing has spent an hour laughing about Mad Frankie Fraser's hands, George Clooney's jaw and a racist's tooth when conversation turns to his own lungs. Errol Christie has found something funny in the darkness of his cancer…