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The Hardest Road
How Far Must Greatness Travel?
An evidence-led examination of boxing greatness through a seven-pillar methodology, testing reputations against the roads fighters actually travelled.
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Murphy Boxing Books is an independent specialist boxing publisher producing history, reference and reader-engagement titles built around careful research, accessible writing and a genuine enthusiasm for the sport.
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Murphy Boxing Books was founded by author and independent researcher Darren J. Murphy in Wolverhampton, England. MBB explores boxing beyond the result — the fighters, records, arguments, forgotten stories and historical circumstances that shaped the sport.
From substantial historical research to reference, quiz and puzzle publishing, the aim remains the same: make boxing engaging and accessible without treating the evidence casually.
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Five books. One love of boxing.
Explore the Murphy Boxing Books paperback catalogue. All five titles are available to order now through our print and fulfilment partners. Kindle editions will be linked here as Amazon approves them.
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On This Day in Boxing
A date-led journey through boxing history, revisiting the fights, fighters, championships, controversies and turning points that shaped the sport.
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The Murphy Boxing Quiz Book — Volume One
250 Questions to Test Your Boxing Knowledge
Ten rounds and 250 questions spanning British and world boxing, champions, great fights and the deeper corners of boxing history.
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The Boxing Puzzle Book
100 Word Searches, Trivia Challenges & Stories from the History of Boxing
One hundred original word-search puzzles across ten rounds, with 1,800 hidden terms, boxing-history introductions, Ringside Questions and full solutions.
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Boxing Training Journal
A purpose-built 120-page training journal for boxers to record sessions, track progress and keep their work organised.
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Boxing History & Reference
Evidence-led features exploring the people, places, objects and sources that make up boxing history.
Boxing History · Medical History
The Lasting Count: Dementia Pugilistica and Boxing
From Martland’s 1928 warning to modern CTE research: what the evidence tells us about the sport’s lasting neurological risks.
Boxing History · Tribute
Wilfredo Gómez (1956–2026): The Bazooka Who Carried a Nation
Remembering Puerto Rico’s three-weight world champion, his defining contests and the legacy behind the numbers.
Boxing History
Beyond the Signature: Preserving Boxing’s Forgotten History
Letters, programmes, photographs and forgotten objects: what boxing memorabilia can tell us when we preserve the evidence and its context.
Boxing History
Boxing in Wolverhampton: A Fighting City’s Story
From open-air tournaments and wartime charity shows to Olympians, Lonsdale Belts and championship nights — the long boxing story of MBB's home city.
Boxing Reference
How Do Boxing Historians Know What Really Happened?
Records, newspapers, programmes, film, memory and archives: how evidence is tested when boxing's surviving sources agree — and when they do not.
Boxing Reference
The Lonsdale Belt: What Does It Actually Mean?
From the National Sporting Club to outright ownership: the rules, design, exclusions and enduring meaning of British boxing's most distinctive trophy.
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MBB RINGSIDE
Original boxing coverage • Now live
Murphy Boxing Books is expanding beyond the page. MBB Ringside brings the same curiosity, independence and evidence-led approach behind our books to contemporary boxing — with original event coverage, interviews, features and reporting from across the sport.
MBB Ringside • Original interview • 24 October 2026
New feature
The Fighting Family — Scott Murray
From Ron Gray’s first pair of gloves to Houston, the Ken Buchanan Foundation and twins Henry and Charles: a lifetime in boxing.
MBB Ringside • Analysis • 19 October 2026
Latest analysis
Lauren Price: Why the Clues Point to Mikaela Mayer
Price has ruled out Shields for now. Could the remaining WBO welterweight belt explain the major fight she is hinting at?
Club history • Interview
The Corner That Never Closes
Inside Wolverhampton ABC with Richie Carter — the fighters, volunteers and a history still being made.
MBB Ringside • Fight News & Analysis • 12 October 2026
Latest feature
Dubois vs Wardley II: What Changes?
Two knockdowns, an eleventh-round stoppage and a world title changing hands. Five months on, can either man rewrite the pattern?
MBB Ringside • Fight News & Analysis • 9 October 2026
More Ringside coverage
Cacace vs Ball: Belfast Awaits
Anthony Cacace returns home to defend his world title. Nick Ball steps up in weight. Plus, Crocker and Cooper have their own reasons to make December count.
MBB Ringside • Cannock • 14 August 2026
Original reporting
A Night for The Savage: Boxing Pays Tribute to Sam Eggington
British boxing gathered at the Premier Suite to recognise a fighter who built his reputation the difficult way — and to thank Sam Eggington for what he gave the sport.
MBB On the Scene • Birmingham • 26 August 2026
Inside Fight Week: Mayer v Cameron at Eastside Boxing Club
Three days before Mikaela Mayer and Chantelle Cameron fought for three world titles in Birmingham, Murphy Boxing Books was inside Eastside as fight week came to one of the Midlands’ working boxing gyms.
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Darren J. Murphy
Darren J. Murphy is the founder of Murphy Boxing Books, a lifelong boxing follower and independent researcher based in Wolverhampton, England. His work is driven by a simple principle: reputations deserve to be examined against the evidence. MBB gives that approach a permanent publishing home, alongside books made for the pleasure of knowing and exploring the sport.
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