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  • New Book - Pugilatus - Ted Spoon

    It is with no small amount of pleasure that I announce the release of my new book Pugilatus, available on Amazon UK.

    Reaching from Jack Broughton to Froch-Groves, this ambitious project intends to open eyes as well as entertain.

    Books on the history of the sport tend to be disjointed, cluttered, and rarely provide anything more than an introduction. Pugilatus formally introduces you to our bare-fisted pioneers, ties the last generation onto a blooming Queensberry scene and then proceeds to carefully juxtapose fighters and themes right up to 2013.

    You’re going to get a real sense of progression and intimacy. It’s fighting styles over records. Relevance over quantity. And all this plays its part in supporting the main drive of the book; boxing, despite its many tweaks, is ultimately a ****genous sport. Each era has deep similarities.

    In the final chapter await 15 fight stories. I dare say these will be the most in-depth fight reports you’ll ever read.

  • #2
    Sounds good. Listed as temporarily out of stock.

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    • #3
      They will be stocked very soon. All systems are go.

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      • #4
        I managed to buy a copy direct from Ted which arrived a couple of days ago (Thanks!). First impressions of the book are very positive.

        Aesthetically the book looks great, nice simplistic cover, original illustrations of bare knuckle boxers explaining their stance and style. An odd thing to say maybe but the pages and font are both of good quality and make reading easy and the hard cover makes it look impressive on the shelf!!

        To quote the book itself it is "a coherent overview of the last 300 years (of boxing". Its a book that both newcomers to boxing and old historians of the game can enjoy and get something out of. Ted goes through the eras and also picks out important figures of the game and gives brief "profiles".

        It is always a risk buying from a new author so I thought I would give my two cents. I would definitely recommend this to anyone who frequents this section of the forum and also to those in other sections who want to widen their knowledge and understand of the amazing sport!

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        • #5
          Sounds like a great premise. Are you going to make available as an e-book?

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          • #6
            Originally posted by jason100x View Post
            Sounds like a great premise. Are you going to make available as an e-book?
            No.

            Pugilatus is (as The Iron Man kindly pointed out) quite a visual book, and it would lose something were you to present it digitally.

            If it's enough of a success I may consider that avenue but for now I want customers, especially boxing fans, to be able to feel the weight of the product and agree that it was money well spent.

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            • #7
              Looks like a good read for my summerholiday. It's still out of Stock though.

              http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pugilatus-Te...ords=Ted+spoon

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              • #8
                Boxing Monhtly gave it a nice review, though I hath not the posting power to unveil such delights...

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                • #9
                  [IMG]http://i9.***********.com/albums/a70/TedSpoon/BM_Pugilatus_Review.png[/IMG]

                  Here is the review. Pretty positive stuff, great work.

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                  • #10
                    Sounds pretty good!

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