Glenroy Brothers1894

The boxing cats were the most popular of Professor Welton's attractions playing New York vaudeville houses and roof gardens during the summer of 1894.

Although prize fighting was illegal in every state in the Union, boxing was a national obsession. The Corbett-Courtney fight was far and away the most profitable film subject of the kinetoscope era.

Displays of virile masculinity, taken in the male-centered world of the Edison Laboratory.

An unnamed man (a local recruit from Newark) juggles Indian clubs in one of the first of W.K.L. Dickson's many films shot to demonstrate the possibilities of the young medium.

Oakland, California's "boxing gym of champions" is showcased here, its historic walls lined with posters for matches boasting past regulars from George Foreman and Joe Frazier to Gina Guidi.

The first critically acclaimed documentary on women's boxing.