Draft:The Diggstown Ringers

The Diggstown Ringers is a 1978 book by Leonard Wise about a boxer who fights many other boxers in a short span of time. It inspired the 1992 movie Diggstown, where a man makes a bet that his boxer can beat any ten men from the town of Diggstown in one day.

Although there is some uncertainty around the subject, this book was almost certainly inspired by the 1975 boxing event called "Foreman vs Five", where recently defeated former heavyweight champion George Foreman fought five current and former professional heavyweight boxers in one afternoon. Howard Cosell and Muhammed Ali did the play-by-play for this unique exhibition match that Foreman wanted to regain his reputation after being badly beaten by Muhammed Ali himself.