Boxing category: 529 books
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Kid Gavilan was a fixture in the boxing world of the early 1950s. He fought on television more than thirty times, in bouts for championships and non-title fights. From Camaguey, Cuba, the Kid was named by his first manager, who had a restaurant called El Gavilan or The Little Hawk. Kid Gavilan fought...
Mike Tyson
Everything You Think You Know About Mike Tyson Is Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Mike Tyson The Baddest Man on the Planet is going Bollywood. Everything You Think You Know About Mike Tyson Is Wrong
Mike Tyson "Iron Mike" won his first 19 professional bouts by knockout. The winner by knockout in his first 19 professional bouts, the 5-foot-11 Tyson was...
Jersey Joe Walcott
A Boxing Biography
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Born into extreme poverty in 1914, Jersey Joe Walcott began boxing at the age of 16 to help feed his hungry family. After ten years, without proper training and with little to show for his efforts beyond some frightful beatings, Walcott quit the ring. A chance meeting with a fight promoter who recognized...
The Boxer's Heart
A Woman Fighting
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
“Brave and ballsy . . . the internal chaos that prompts Sekules’ rage and desire to retaliate is a more original, fascinating place to visit than any gym.” —Salon.com
The Boxer’s Heart is a brilliantly candid memoir of the world of women’s boxing, now updated and with a new afterword....
Ezzard Charles
A Boxing Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2015
Greatness is often overlooked in its own time. For Ezzard Charles—one of boxing’s most skilled practitioners, with a record of 93–25–1 (52 KO)—recognition took decades. Named by The Ring magazine as the greatest light heavyweight of all time, Charles was frustrated in his attempts to get...
by Graeme Kent
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
Boxing has a long and eventful history and its drama, excitement and humor are covered in this fascinating account of the noble—and sometimes ignoble—art all over the world. It covers the bare-knuckle days when the Duke of Cumberland callously abandoned his protégé Jack Broughton when the latter...
Sparring with Hemingway
And Other Legends of the Fight Game
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
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.” So begins screenwriter, novelist, and journalist Budd Schulberg’s collection of essays on the sweet science of bruising, a sport that fueled...
by Joe Calzaghe
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
IT WAS past three o'clock in the morning when Joe Calzaghe experienced the sweetest validation of his professional life. Victory over Jeff Lacy, a 28-year-old American compared to a young Mike Tyson because of his power and "take-no-prisoners attitude", left no one in doubt about the world...
Hands of Stone
The Life and Legend of Roberto Duran
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
ROBERTO DURAN is a sporting legend. Often called the greatest boxer of all time, he held world titles at four different weights and is the only professional in history to have fought in five different decades. His bouts with fellow greats like Sugar Ray Leonard, Thomas Hearns and Marvin Hagler have...
Counterpunch
Ali, Tyson, the Brown Bomber, and Other Stories of the Boxing Ring
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Spanning the period between 1967 and 2005, this compilation includes 84 of Pulitzer Prize–winning author Ira Berkow’s columns on boxing. Readers will meet some of the greatest names in the sport’s history in the pages of this book, including Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, Joe Louis, and Mike Tyson....
The Longest Fight
In the Ring with Joe Gans, Boxing's First African American Champion
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Many people came to Goldfield, Nevada, America's last gold-rush town, to seek their fortune. However, on a searing summer day in September 1906, they came not to strike it rich but to watch what would become the longest boxing match of the twentieth century—between Joe Gans, the first African American...
Manly Art
They Can Run—But They Can't Hide
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
This compilation of boxing-related commentary, criticism, reportage, and analysis represents the decade's best from award-winning sports journalist George Kimball. With selections culled from a wide array of publications including Boxing Digest, the Irish Times, ESPN.com, and TheSweetScience.com,...
Bomber
Behind the Laughter
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Sheffield boxing legend Herol Graham's long awaited autobiography has been critically acclaimed in the boxing world.The retired fighter, who has enjoyed unrivalled popularity in the city and entertained boxing fans worldwide with his artful style, decided to share his thoughts on his three world title...
by Ferdie Pacheco
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
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