When in Doubt, Stop the Bout

Mike Silver is the authorof three books. The Arc of Boxing: TheRise and Decline of the Sweet Science (McFarland, 2008) isconsidered a classic and was recently listed as McFarland's # 1 best-seller forJune 2023. His second book, Stars in the Ring: Jewish Champions in theGolden Age of Boxing (Lyons Press, 2016), was called by Publisher's Weekly "An achievement unlikely to be equaled." The Night the Referee Hit Back: MemorableMoments from the World of Boxing (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020) wasdescribed as "A welcome additionto the libraries of boxing fans and sports pundits" by Publisher's Weekly. Silver's work has appeared in the New York Times, The Ringmagazine, Boxing Monthly, The InternationalBoxing Research Journal, andvarious boxing web sites. He is a former inspector with the New York StateAthletic Commission and a consultant and on-air commentator for nineteen boxingdocumentaries produced by PBS, HBO, ESPN, the History Channel and Madison SquareGarden Network. He was the curator of the "Sting Like a Maccabee: The GoldenAge of the American Jewish Boxer" exhibit at the National Museum of AmericanJewish History in Philadelphia (2004-05), and a co-curator of the San FranciscoJewish Film Festival's centerpiece program, "Jews, Boxing, and Hollywood"(2007). He is a member of the New York State Boxing Hall of Fame.

In When in Doubt, Stop the Bout, renowned boxing historian Mike Silver presents ashocking exposé of the sordid underbelly of professional boxing, and uncovers thesport's criminally flawed infrastructure and those responsible for it.