Philadelphia Fighters chronicles the golden era of American boxing in the pugilistic Quaker City, where top contenders settled and where many great fighters grew up during the epic period from the 1950s through the 1980s. Among the boxing figures remembered by the author are boxing writer J. Russell Peltz, Len Matthews, Joe Frazier, Bennie Briscoe, Cyclone Hart, Jeff Chandler, Bobby Watts, Willie Monroe, Curtis Parker, Larry Holmes, Matthew Saad Muhammad, Thomas Hearns, Dwight Muhammad Qawi, Marvin Hagler and Roberto Duran.