Born to Box

The Extraordinary Story of Nipper Pat Daly

Alex Daley

• Publisher: Pitch Publishing Ltd
• eBook ISBN:
  9781785314131
• Year: 2018

Born to Box is the story of Nipper Pat Daly, arguably boxing's greatest ever prodigy. A pro at age ten, by 14 he was beating grown men and at 16 ranked in the world's top ten. But tragically he was overworked and forced to retire by 17. Told by the author and by Nipper himself via his previously unpublished memoirs, it is a story like no other.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Dedication
• Acknowledgements
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Weight Classes in British Professional Boxing in the 1920s and ’30s
• Prologue: The Old Man in the Pub
• 1 The Champion and the Child
• 2 West London to Wayne
• 3 Hatton Street Kid
• 4 The Professor’s Prodigy
• 5 Jack the Giant-Killer
• 6 Premierland
• 7 Annie: KO Queen
• 8 Full-time Pro
• 9 The Toy Bulldog
• 10 Top of the Bill
• 11 Germany
• 12 Title Chase
• 13 Bring on the Bantams
• 14 Age Bar
• 15 Great Young Hope
• 16 Baldock and Pattenden
• 17 Sunderland Assassin
• 18 Garland
• 19 Fight with ‘the Kid’
• 20 Can Daly Last?
• 21 KO Schulze
• 22 Stage Fights
• 23 America Calling
• 24 Weight of Expectation
• 25 Cuthbert
• 26 No Rest for the Gifted
• 27 Back to Business
• 28 Seaman Tommy Watson
• 29 Scrapheap
• 30 Comeback
• 31 What Next?
• 32 Marriage, War and Wrestling
• 33 A Gym and a Dance Hall
• 34 Yesterday’s Heroes
• 35 The Final Round
• Nipper Pat Daly’s Fight Record 1923–31
• Career Summary
• Bibliography
• Photo