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For the first time in over half a century, Hitting and Stopping, the first book written by Jimmy Wilde, Flyweight Champion of the World, and arguably Britain (and Wales) greatest boxer has been re-published as a new, updated and expanded official edition. Previously this book was only available in its original form and cost upwards of 50. If you are a Welsh boxing fan, or want to find a great book for a boxing fanatic for Christmas it doesnt get better than this. Packed with rare photographs, bibliographical information and commentary, this is likely to be a highly sought after book amongst boxing enthusiasts :


'Jimmy Wilde was one of the greatest fighters the world has ever seen. He fought hundreds of times on the fairground boxing booths while still in his teens, often battling opponents nearly twice his size. Wilde went on to win his first 100 professional fights, most by way of knockout and defeated much larger men throughout his professional career. By 1916, Jimmy Wilde was universally acknowledged as the Flyweight Champion of the World, and held the title until 1923.

Wildes devastating punching power was such that he is regarded by The Ring magazine as being the third greatest puncher of all time. Boxing historian Nat Fleischer rated him as the No. 1 Flyweight in boxing history. Jimmy Wilde was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1990 and is today celebrated as one of the most gifted fighters to have stepped into the boxing ring.

First published in 1914, Hitting and Stopping reveals the combative insights of a true boxing master. Jimmy Wilde explains the unorthodox methods and strategies that enabled him to emerge victorious on hundreds of occasions. Illustrated by many rare instructional photographs of Wilde demonstrating his techniques, this book is a must for any sports historian or boxing student hoping to understand the life and career of a man who was called The Ghost with a Hammer in his Hand due to his devastating punch and his uncanny skills in evading his opponents.

This new official edition of Hitting and Stopping How I Won 100 Fights contains further additional written material and commentary as well as numerous photographs of Jimmy Wilde that have not been included in any previous edition.

160 pages
ISBN : 9780957034211
12.99

Email peerlesspress@gmail.com for more information and to order your copy direct from the publisher. Peerless Press ships worldwide.

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Ceri and I are hoping we can go to Wales next year. Ceri hasn't been home in years and I've never been. He'd like to get to see his family and I'd like to get to meet them and I'd just like to see it. The only places I've been outside the US are Tijuana and Vancouver BC. Vancouver was gorgeous but nothing really different and Tijuana was sort of a depressing version of the part of LA I was living in at the time. There's some things I already know I want to see in Wales but I know there's a lot I don't know anything about.

if you haven't been to Wales, where would you like to go there? When would you like to go? What do you want to do and see in Wales and why?

If you have been there, what brought you there? Where would you tell someone else to go? What would you tell other people they should see and do there and why? Is there anything you'd like to go back and do or see and why?

The guest speaker at the weekly meeting of Llanelli Rotary Club was Carwyn Matera-Rogers, the manager of Theatrau Sir Gr Carmarthenshire Theatres.

Mr Matera-Rogers gave a hugely entertaining and informative talk on the new Ffwrnes theatre complex currently being constructed in Llanelli town centre.

He was welcomed to the meeting by Llanelli Rotary Club president Alan Owen, see picture below.

The vote of thanks for the talk was given by Rotarian Alison Evans.

Weblink -
http://www.carmarthenshiretheatres.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=128&lang=en

Some sporting heroes live for just an instant, a single moment of glory. Others sparkle for awhile and give us opportunity to marvel at their skill. A select few endure for all time. Over a century after a wafer thin, stick like teenager appeared on the front of a fairground boxing booth in South Wales, it is still hard to conceive of the genius of Jimmy Wilde. Some say Muhammad Ali was the greatest, others maybe Sugar Ray Robinson, but no matter how far back you go, it is all but impossible to find a man that could do what the Mighty Atom did.

Jimmy was a mere 6st or therabouts when he first started fighting, a bag of bones and a tight tarpaulin of skin. Some laughed, others protested. How on earth could this be a fighting man, yet he squared up night after night, not just beating all comers, but laying them flat, muscular colliers, ironworkers, even up to twice his size. He won and kept winning, knocking out over a hundred men, although it is thought he fought on at least 800 occasions he lost just four times. So small, so frail that he often weighed in wearing workboots with lead weights in his pockets, Jimmy was a phenomenon. He became the flyweight champion of the world in 1916 and held it until 1923 and never made 7st in his fighting career.

To quote a well known boxing scribe, we will never see his like again, not even if we grow to be as old as Methuselah.

Wonder doesn't come into it. This little man became the greatest fighter of all time, and he was born at Quakers Yard, South Wales. He is immortalised in the boxing hall of fame in Canastota, New York.

If you don't know Jimmy, as a Welshman or woman you should. He never gave in, he never gave up. He had the heart of a lion and the speed of a panther. He reminds us what is undeniable, fighting spirit conquers all.