Cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction (David Scott) -- 1 Boxing and Urban Culture (Joseph D. Lewandowski) -- 2 The Historical Transformations of the 'Boxing Idol': The Case of Max Schmeling (Wolf-Dietrich Junghanns) -- 3 Speaking Through Silence? Whites' Efforts to Make Meaning of Joe Louis (Marcy S. Sacks) -- 4 Boxing and 'Ethnic' Masculinity in Colonial North Africa (Philip Dine) -- 5 Iron Mike and Me: The Fall and Further Fall of Mike Tyson (Darryl Jones) -- 6 Single and Mass Combats: A Comparison of Traditional Russian Fist-Fighting and Western Boxing (Wolf-Dietrich Junghanns) -- 7 Ideology and Satire in English Bare-Knuckle Boxing Literature (Sharon Harrow) -- 8 Boxers' Noses (David Scott) -- 9 A Nose for Punchers: A. J. Liebling's Boxing Writing (Robert Anasi) -- 10 'He certainly was a fighter: Boxing as Bildungsroman in Ellison and Bellow (Kasia Boddy) -- 11 Boxing as Staged Performance in Contemporary Art (Karin Rase) -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.