Adeyinka

Nigerian by birth and British-based; Adeyinka is a barrister-at-law by training and has taught law at a number of colleges and universities in the United Kingdom......A student of boxing, he has written many articles and match reports for a number of boxing sites on the World Wide Web including cyberboxingzone.com and eastsideboxing.com. His work has appeared in Le Soliel, the premier Senegalese newspaper. He has also contributed to African Renaissance; a journal dedicated to the socio-political and economic affairs of the continent and Black Star News; a New York City-based investigative newspaper......He is the author of the biography Dick Tiger: The Life and Times of a Boxing Immortal (ISBN-10:1-59571-042-6 & ISBN-13:9781595710420)published by Word Association Publishers in 2005. The book received excellent reviews world wide from boxing publications such as The Ring (America), Boxing News (England), The Fist (Australia), and MondoBoxe.com (Italy)......His article, Pug of Ages: Weep for Me (2002), which explores the economic, social and cultural aspects of boxing, is reprinted alongside classic essays on boxing by William Hazlitt and Joyce Carol Oates as source material in two English language academic textbooks concerned with developing critical thinking skills among pre-university High School students in the United States. Writing: The Synthesis Essay & English Language and Composition: Analysis, Argument and Synthesis by John Brassil, Sandra Coker and Carl W. Glover. (Peoples Education, New Jersey, USA 2007)......In 2006, he served as both consultant and contributor to a BBC World Service Radio produced documentary on the life of Dick Tiger, and in 2007, he appeared on a Sky TV broadcast entitled 'Deadly Rivals' in regard to which he contributed expert opinion on the Michael Watson-Chris Eubank and Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier boxing rivalries. In October 2008, he was featured on the highly-rated Bisi Olatilo Show.....He is currently working on his second book which will be about the life and death of Jersey City boxer Frankie DePaula......(X)