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Battling Nelson, the Durable Dane : World Lightweight Champion, 1882-1954, Paperback / softback Book

Battling Nelson, the Durable Dane : World Lightweight Champion, 1882-1954 Paperback / softback

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Oscar "Battling" Nelson (1882-1954) was perhaps the toughest professional boxer ever to enter the ring.

Although a Hall of Fame inductee, Nelson remains a lesser known great of boxing lore.

From the beginning of his career at 14, the Danish immigrant presented himself as a man of integrity who never smoked, drank or took a dive. In the ring and in public, Battling Nelson crafted a Renaissance man image as a lightweight champion, reporter, entertainer, real estate mogul, entrepreneur and ladies' man.

The first ever champion in his weight class to mount a comeback, he strove to break new ground (even if he wasn't always successful). This book tells the story of a ring legend whose endurance was second to none and whose trilogy with Joe Gans is one of the great rivalries in sports history.

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