The Twilight Rounds: Rod Serling Explores the Dark Side of Boxing - Paperback

Benedict, Christopher: - Christopher Benedict is a boxing writer, an elector for both the International Boxing Hall of Fame and International Women's Boxing Hall of Fame, a member of The Ring magazine's women's boxing ratings panel, and he served as a contributing archive researcher for the 2023 documentary Right To Fight. Benedict is the author of several boxing books, including Mandatory Eight Count, Hooking Off The Jab, You Can't Smash Stereotypes By Staying in the Neutral Corner, and I'm Not In The Business. I Am The Business. An advocate for women's boxing, his writings on the subject are featured and preserved on the WBAN (Women's Boxing Archive Network) Historical Database, founded and maintained by trailblazing prizefighter Sue 'Tiger Lilly' Fox. Benedict is a member of the Rod Serling Memorial Foundation. His science fiction, horror, and monster genre writing include, Needs Must When the Devil Drives, a book of essays on horror and sci-fi, which begins with a lengthy look inside Rod Serling's involvement in developing the 1968 film adaptation of Planet of the Apes. In September 2024, he was a featured presenter at SerlingFest: A Serling Centennial, delivering a lecture on his research on Rod Serling's boxing related stories at the Forum Theatre in Binghamton, New York.Serling, Anne: - Anne Serling serves on the Board of Directors for the Rod Serling Memorial Foundation. She is author of the memoir As I Knew Him: My Dad, Rod Serling and contributed adaptations of two of her father's scripts to The Twilight Zone: The Original Stories anthology. Anne is the founder and an Editorial Board member of Rod Serling Books, an independent publishing house whose mission is to make his otherwise out of print work available and affordable. "The Big, Tall Wish" (More Stories from the Twilight Zone) and both the original teleplay (collected in Patterns) and movie tie-in novelization for Requiem for a Heavyweight are among them. Visit her at www.anneserling.comTyger, Lady: - Lady Tyger Trimiar is a former boxer who broke down gender and racial barriers. After four years of legal battles, Tyger was one of the first three women to be granted professional boxing licenses by the New York State Athletic Commission in 1978. She competed in the first ever women's boxing matches held in Connecticut and Pennsylvania, headlined the inaugural all-female fight card in 1979, and won the Women's World Lightweight Championship. A tireless advocate for women's rights, Trimiar went on a 30-day hunger strike in 1987 to publicize the boxing establishment's discriminatory practices. She was inducted into the International Women's Boxing Hall of Fame (Class of 2016) and International Boxing Hall of Fame (Class of 2021).