Boxing

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Established in 1883, the Olympic Club catered to a variety of pursuits from target shooting to billiards to boxing--the most popular sport in New Orleans, despite legal prohibitions.

Boxing was popular in the American West long before Las Vegas became its epicenter.

The black prizefighter labored in one of the few trades where an African American man could win renown: boxing.

Each year, readers, writers, and critics alike look forward to Thomas Hauser's newest collection of articles about the contemporary boxing scene.

In every sport, in every country around the world, there are fans on the losing side who know that something other than skill and luck beat their favorite team or player.

The Years of the Locust is a true story of intrigue, paranoia, murder and money set in the shimmering cities of America's South in the 1990s.

Facing Tyson gives a ringside view of the world's most dangerous and notorious boxer.

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From the author of Paper Lion Stepping into the ring against light-heavyweight champion Archie Moore, George Plimpton pauses to wonder what ever induced him to become a participatory journalist.

In Scream, Jonathan Rendall presents an oral history of Tyson"e;s life, built around statements from those who knew him intimately from the beginning, including trainers, gym-mates and press agents.

Kicking ass and taking notes—what it's like to be a woman in the ring.

Has everything been said about Muhammad Ali, once the most famous man in the world?

Many regard Muhammad Ali simply as The Greatest heavyweight of all time.

This first nationwide study of boxing regulations in the United States offers an historical overview of the subject, from the earliest attempts at regulating the sport to present-day legislation that may create a national boxing commission.

The legendary Harry Greb stepped into the ring more than 300 times from 1913 to 1926, defeated opponents who outweighed him by more than 30 pounds, held the middleweight and light heavyweight titles and beat every Hall of Fame boxer he ever fought.

Born into extreme poverty in 1914, Jersey Joe Walcott began boxing at the age of 16 to help feed his hungry family.

The inspiring story of one man’s fight against his wrongful incarceration and his eventual triumph—both inside and outside the boxing ring.

"e;Dundee is one of the greatest innovators in the annals of the sweet science.

At the pinnacle of his boxing career during the 1960s and early 1970s, Muhammad Ali seemed to be a cultural symbol of the times.

Ricky Hatton's brilliance as a boxer, his down-to-earth demeanour and his live-wire sense of humour made him a national treasure.

Sport can offer catharsis in times of crisis, but not this time.

This book presents a sweeping view of boxing in the United States and the influence of the sport on American culture.

Go Spanning the World with Len Berman in this wildly entertaining, insightful, and often hilarious book that takes sports fans behind the scenes and inside locker rooms.

'A riveting read about an amazing man' THE SUNLegendary boxer Muhammad Ali visited Michael Parkinson's chat show sofa four times, culminating in an iconic interview in 1971.

For more than sixty yearsfrom the 1890s to the 1950sboxing was an integral part of American popular culture and a major spectator sport rivaling baseball in popularity.

Gangsters have been around boxing for ever.

Over the last 8 years Anthony Joshua has pounded his way to the top of the boxing world.

Twenty-four exclusive interviews with boxing insiders feature the recollections and perspectives of champions, trainers, promoters and officials, as well as those who work behind the scenes.

In the late 1890s, when boxing rivaled the popularity of baseball, George Dixon and Terry McGovern were among its most famous practitioners.

This work covers the individuals and events of what most consider to be the greatest era in boxing history.

Boxing is one of the oldest sports in the world, reaching back to the Ancient Greeks, although it has become popular only in the past century or so.

If you want to look like a world-class athlete, you have to train like one, and no athletes train harder or look better doing it than professional boxers.

Boxing is well-known for its training regime, which produces some of the strongest, fittest athletes in the world.

A sweeping biography of one of the greatest and most provocative athletes of all time—“a life that needs to be understood whether you care a whit about boxing or not” (The Boston Globe).

IT WAS past three o'clock in the morning when Joe Calzaghe experienced the sweetest validation of his professional life.

Questions of class and gender in Appalachia have, in the wake of the 2016 presidential election and the runaway success of Hillbilly Elegy, moved to the forefront of national conversations about politics and culture.

This work brings a fresh perspective to the history of modern prizefighting, a sport which has evolved over several centuries to become one of mankind's most lasting and valued sporting attractions.

Many books have discussed boxing in the ancient world, but this is the first to describe how boxing was reborn in the modern world.

Jess Willard, the "e;Pottawatomie Giant,"e; won the heavyweight title in 1915 with his defeat of Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion.

Hailed by critics as a long overdue portrait of Sugar Ray Robinson, a man who was as elusive out of the ring as he was magisterial in it, Pound for Pound is a lively and nuanced profile of an athlete who is arguably the best boxer the sport has ever known.

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Schulberg goes toe to toe with his lifelong passion in this collection of his greatest writings on boxing“As much as I love boxing, I hate it.

Bill Barichs widely praised work is at its peak in these intimate glimpses into the stories behind the stories, the real people behind the public faade of the athletic realm.

Proclaimed the young fighter from Louisville.

Joe Louis held the heavyweight boxing championship longer than any other fighter and defended it a record 25 times.

Alan Scott Haft provides the first-hand testimony of his father, Harry Haft, a holocaust victim with a singular story of endurance, desperation, and unrequited love.

The definitive book (The Ring) on one of the greatest sports events of the twentieth century, the heavyweight championship bout between Americas Brown Bomber, Joe Louis, and Germanys Max Schmeling.