Tag Archives | Jimmy Wilde

Jimmy Wilde’s Great War: Welsh boxers in World War I

By Sean Davies on June 10, 2014 in History

As part of a series looking at the history of the most prominent Welsh boxers during World War I, we consider the experiences of Jimmy Wilde.

By Sean Davies on June 1, 2014 in History

As Joe Calzaghe joins the International Boxing Hall of Fame, take a look at all the Welshmen to have been welcomed into that select club.

By Sean Davies on October 20, 2013 in Book reviews, History

A review of the great Jimmy Wilde’s 1938 autobiography “Fighting was my Business”.

By Sean Davies on June 18, 2013 in History

Marking the 90-year anniversary of Jimmy Wilde v Pancho Villa at New York’s Polo Grounds, the final fight of the great Welshman Wilde.

By Sean Davies on June 9, 2013 in Book reviews

Book review of Jimmy Wilde, “Hitting and Stopping: How I won 100 fights” (Peerless Press, Cardiff, 2012).