'The Puncher always has a chance. Give me a guy who can punch, to manage, to bet on, or just to watch.' - Jimmy Johnston, ,The Boy Bandit, 1935 The fighters in this book were the guys Johnston was talking about. Terrible Terry McGover, the Brooklyn Terror; Rock-fisted Stanley Ketchel, the Michigan Assassin; Sam Langford, the Boston Tar Baby; Mighty Adam Jimmy Wilde; Jack Dempsey. The Manassa Mauler; Jock McAvoy, the Rochdale Thunderbolt; Max Baer, Boxing's Clown Prince; Homicide Henry Armstrong; Brown Bomber Joe Louis; Lew Jenkins, the Texas Mustang; Ageless Archie Moore; Dead End Slugger Rocky Graziano; Sweet as Sugar Ray Robinson; Iron-fisted Rocky Marciano - they all wore dynamite gloves when they went to work and some of their explosive exploits are related in the pages of this book.