Boxing

Glen Sharp's boxing career was a rise-and-fall story without so much rise in it.

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Allein gegen alle und sich selbst: die mitreißende Autobiografie des deutsch-türkischen Profi-Boxers und vehementen Erdoğan-Kritikers Ünsal Arık.

Holding the world featherweight boxing championship for more than 11 years, Johnny Kilbane's name became synonymous with the title.

München 1955: Der alternde Lebenskünstler Gagge hat neben seinen Erinnerungen an Luna und Esther nur noch einen Gedanken, der ihn am Leben hält: Einmal bei einem Boxkampf im Madison Square Garden live dabei zu sein!

On June 10, 1948, the eyes of the sporting world were focused on a minor league ballpark in Newark, New Jersey--the unlikely venue of a much-anticipated rubber match between the two men at the top of boxing's prestigious middleweight division, Tony Zale and Rocky Graziano.

A celebration and memorial of the greatest era of heavyweight fighters from 1962 to 1997, as witnessed ringside by an International Boxing Hall of Fame sportswriter.

Nombrado MEJOR LIBRO DE DEPORTES DE TODOS LOS TIEMPOS por la revista Sports Illustrateden 2002, La Dulce Ciencia recopila en un único e inolvidable volumen las clásicas piezas del periodista del New Yorker A.

La biografía más completa y definitiva de Muhammad Ali que jamás se haya publicado.

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

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

Throughout America's past, some men have feared the descent of their gender into effeminacy, and turned their eyes to the ring in hopes of salvation.

Ingemar Johansson's right hand--dubbed "e;The Hammer of Thor"e;--was the most fearsome in boxing, and Johansson's three fights with Floyd Patterson rank among the sport's classic rivalries.

Boxing was phenomenally popular in 18th and 19th century Britain.

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

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The story of boxing legend Jerry Quarry has it all: rags to riches, thrilling fights against the giants ofthe GoldenAge of Heavyweights(Alitwice, Fraziertwice, Patterson, Norton), a racially and politically electric sports era, the thrills and excesses of fame, celebrities, love, hate, joy, and pain.

It was 1976 when Leon and Michael Spinks first punched their way into Americas living rooms.

Boxing lost a true warrior and gentleman of the ring when the mayor of Managua, Nicaragua, Alexis Argüello, died in 2009.

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

February 25th 1995, Nigel Benn and Gerald McClellan staged one of the most explosive battles ever seen in a professional ring, a fight so brutal that the British Medical Association led immediate calls for boxing to be outlawed.

Given away as a six-day-old baby, Richy really began his life fighting.

Abandoned on the streets of Philadelphia at age four, Matthew Saad Muhammad (1954-2014) survived orphanages, street gangs and prison to become one of the most exciting prizefighters of boxing's Golden Age of the late 1970s and early 1980s.

On June 28, 1868, a group of men gathered alongside a road 35 miles north of Albuquerque to witness a 165-round, 6-hour bare-knuckle brawl between well-known Colorado pugilist Barney Duffy and "e;Jack,"e; an unidentified fighter who died of his injuries.

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

The story behind the Major Motion Picture The Fighter, starring Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale, Irish Thunder is about a boxer from a boxing family and a boxing town, but it is not a boxing book.

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

Joe Gans captured the world lightweight title in 1902, becoming the first black American world title holder in any sport.

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.

This is the story of the lineage of Boxings World Heavyweight Championship from 1882-1915 and how it explains a cultural attitude toward race and identity in that era.

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 Luigi d'Ambrosio, Lou Ambers grew up in Herkimer, New York, during the Great Depression.

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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.

Greatness is often overlooked in its own time.

The world heavyweight boxing championship once transcended the sport, conferring global renown.

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

Fighting sports may seem at odds with Christian tradition, yet modern ministries have embraced them as a means for evangelism and social outreach.

This is a cradle-to-grave biography of Mickey Walker, former welterweight (1922-1926) and middleweight champion (1926-1931) of the world, one of the greatest fighters in ring history.

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

Covering Mike Tyson's rise through the amateur and professional boxing ranks, this book follows the Brooklyn native from his early years as a young criminal in Brownsville to his 1988 heavyweight unification match with Michael Spinks.

While many of his peers began their careers as farmers and factory workers, Leo Florian Houck became a boxing sensation at age 14, enabling him to support his mother and six siblings after his father's death.

Abraham Washington Attell (1883-1970) was among the cleverest, most scientific professional boxers ever to enter the ring.

For six decades the World Colored Heavyweight Championship was a useful tool of racial oppression--the existence of the title far more important to the white public than its succession of champions.

Among the best pound-for-pound fighters of all time, Willie Pep (1922-2006) was a virtuoso of the squared circle.

For all hard-core boxing fans, this book introduces the reader to New Jersey stars of the 20th century--gladiators who fought in blood-soaked rings bringing entertainment to millions for little pay.

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