A Boxing Dynasty
The Tommy Gilmour Story

Tommy Gilmour with Robert Jeffrey

Category: Sport
Pub Date: October 2007
ISBN: 1 84502 177 0
Extent: 256 pp.
Price: £17.99
Format: Hardback, 234 x 156 mm
Plate/Illustrations: 16 pp



The Gilmour family is the longest lasting boxing dynasty in the world and has ruled boxing across Scotland for more than a century. From the days of bare-knuckle battles and booth fighting to world championship pay-per-view bouts, the Gilmours have always been in the thick of it. A Boxing Dynasty is a blow-by-blow account by Tommy Gilmour of how his family survived the struggle to dominate the fight game.

From the illegal bookmaking days in Glasgow’s tenement back streets at the beginning of the 20th century, to their start as boxing managers and promoters, to rubbing shoulders with greats like Muhammad Ali and Benny Lynch – this is the story of one family’s determination to succeed in the toughest, and sometimes cruellest, of sports. But it's also the story of a sport haunted by feuds, scandal and corruption, in Scotland’s toughest city.

Illustrated with photos from the Gilmours’ unique family archive and including Tommy’s forthright views on the current state of the sport – from women in boxing to calls that it be banned – A Boxing Dynasty is the controversial story of a remarkable family and a must for fight fans.