Gibbons FFG Archive
Greetings Fight Enthusiasts, Lovers of History and Golden Age Aficionados!
Welcome to the FIGHT FOR GLORY blog — a journey back in time to Boxing’s Golden Age (1880s-1960s). We’ll travel through the years-long process of researching and mining the era’s extraordinary treasures to bring this riveting, inspiring true story to life for contemporary audiences.
The story is not just about two extraordinary brothers, Mike and Tommy Gibbons, my great uncle and grandfather. It’s about their notable and legendary brothers of the ring. It’s a story about love, family, loyalty, courage, and resilience. It features an indelible historical cast and incredible experiences. It’s a story of America herself told at ringside, at street-level and on the rails, during an astonishing period of change.
There has never been a boxing story like this. There’s never really been any kind of story like this. There never will be again. FIGHT FOR GLORY is America’s boxing origin story, yet it’s so much more. In time you will discover this truth.
Gibbons FFG Archive
Greetings Fight Enthusiasts, Lovers of History and Golden Age Aficionados!
Welcome to the FIGHT FOR GLORY blog — a journey back in time to Boxing’s Golden Age (1880s-1960s). We’ll travel through the years-long process of researching and mining the era’s extraordinary treasures to bring this riveting, inspiring true story to life for contemporary audiences.
The story is not just about two extraordinary brothers, Mike and Tommy Gibbons, my great uncle and grandfather. It’s about their notable and legendary brothers of the ring. It’s a story about love, family, loyalty, courage, and resilience. It features an indelible historical cast and incredible experiences. It’s a story of America herself told at ringside, at street-level and on the rails, during an astonishing period of change.
There has never been a boxing story like this. There’s never really been any kind of story like this. There never will be again. FIGHT FOR GLORY is America’s boxing origin story, yet it’s so much more. In time you will discover this truth.
The early 20th Century was a period of immense change and excitement in the world— a time of great heroes and terrifying villains, of old ways fading and new ways emerging, of world wars and global pandemics. On the FIGHT FOR GLORY blog, we’ll take you deep into this special world with words and pictures, exploring the stories behind the stories, introducing you to the people and places that made this era so unforgettable.
We’ll delve into the Wild West as it gave way to the big cities, witness the birth of jazz and the fight for women’s suffrage, follow the exploits of the bootleggers, dreamers, and con men, the immigrants, old money, gangsters, the Irish rebels and the crooked cops. Everything turning inside out — speed, chaos, and power.
World Heavyweight Championship
Reno, NV – July 4, 1910
At the core of it all, the prizefighters — the boxing legends who captured the imagination of the world and became the period’s biggest celebrities. In the early 20th Century, boxing gyms and athletic clubs were popular hubs for America’s youth, cropping up in every town and city across the nation. Boxing defined the Golden Age.
But our journey isn’t just about the past. It’s also about the present, as we take you behind the scenes of our intensive research process in crafting the three-book series, FIGHT FOR GLORY. We’ll show you how we’ve worked with libraries, archives, galleries, collectors, and antique dealers around the world to uncover the long-lost artifacts, documents, photos, and illustrations that reveal the story in the hours in which it unfolded.
So please, check in regularly, or sign-up for email updates, with the FIGHT FOR GLORY blog, your ringside seat to a world long ago and yet very much alive — one that will thrill you, move you, and inspire you. It’ll knock you out!