Boxing category: 529 books
Close Encounters With the Gloves Off
Boxing's Greats Recall the Inside Stories of Their Big Fights
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2016
Close Encounters With the Gloves Off is a rollercoaster ride through boxing history in the words of the boxers themselves, as they recall their highs and lows, their greatest triumphs, the background stories and many shock revelations. Acclaimed boxing writer, author and historian Thomas Myler has interviewed...
Boxing
Training, Skills and Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Boxing - Training, Skills and Techniques is essential reading for both recreational and competitive boxers, and all those who wish to take up amateur boxing, or participate in a boxing-based programme. It offers practical advice on the many crucial factors that need to be taken into account if the...
The Main Event
Boxing in Nevada from the Mining Camps to the Las Vegas Strip
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Richard O. Davies won Foreword Reviews' INDIEFAB Book of the Year Bronze Medal in Sports for The Main Event: Boxing in Nevada from the Mining Camps to the Las Vegas Strip. Davies' book was chosen as one of the best indie books of 2014.
As the twentieth century dawned, bare-knuckle prizefighting...
Life in the Ring
Lessons and Inspiration from the Sport of Boxing Including Muhammad Ali, Oscar de la Hoya, Jake LaMotta, George Foreman, Floyd Patterson, and Rocky Marciano
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
Much more than a book on boxing. Life in the Ring is equally historical, literary, and inspirational. Truly a one-of-a-kind book.
There is no sport more unforgiving than boxing. Boxing represents the best of who we are as individuals. Those who have participated in the sport, at any level,...
by Steve Wellings
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
The Irish boxing review covers all of the talking points and events from across the Irish boxing scene and beyond. Reports, news, articles, features, previews and photographs plus much more.“Finally a boxing book that pulls it all together: Fights, fighters, dates and proper 'live'...
The Boxing Heavyweight Championship Quiz Book
101 Questions on British Heavyweight Boxing
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Do you enjoy watching heavyweight boxing? Are you familiar with the many British names associated with this exciting sport? Would you like to find out more about the UK’s heavyweight champions, past and present, and all those who have battled to win this title? If you answered yes to any of these question,...
The Complete Guide to Boxing Fitness
A non-contact boxing training manual
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
A comprehensive, practical guide to non-contact boxing - looks at workouts in an individual, group or class setting. Learn how to improve clients' body composition, heart-lung stamina, strength, speed, co-ordination, balance and flexibility. It also covers boxing training's less tangible but equally...
Rocky Graziano
Fists, Fame, and Fortune
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Rocky Graziano, juvenile delinquent, middleweight boxing champion, and comedic actor, was the last great fighter from the golden age of boxing, the era of Joe Louis, Jake LaMotta, and Sugar Ray Robinson.
In Rocky Graziano: Fists, Fame, and Fortune, Jeffrey Sussman tells the rags-to-riches story...
The Gloves
A Boxing Chronicle
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2003
A gritty, spirited inside look at the world of amateur boxing today
The Golden Gloves tournament is center stage in amateur boxing-a single-elimination contest in which young hopefuls square off in steamy gyms with the boxing elite looking on.
Robert Anasi took up boxing in his twenties...
Boxing
A Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2008
Boxing is one of the oldest and most exciting of sports: its bruising and bloody confrontations have permeated Western culture since 3000 BC. During that period, there has hardly been a time in which young men, and sometimes women, did not raise their gloved or naked fists to one other. Throughout this...
The Golden Age of Boxing on Radio and Television
A Blow-by-Blow History from 1921 to 1964
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Radio and television broadcasting were as important to the growth and popularity of boxing as it was to the reshaping of our very culture. In The Golden Age of Boxing on Radio and Television, Frederick V. Romano explores the many roles that each medium played in both the development and the depiction...
by Chadrick Wigle
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
The “Boxing Science™ Skills Book – Reference Guide for Beginners”, is an easy to use resource for coaches, parents, and boxers of all skill levels and experience. You will easily find answers to your boxing skill questions on your smart phone, computer, reading device or tablet. There are...
by Floyd Patterson, Bert Randolph Sugar
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2007
For all boxers and fans, this step-by-step guide to successful boxing by a two-time World Heavyweight Champion will be educational and entertaining. Floyd Patterson set out to pass along to you what I’ve learned, to unlock some of the secrets of the greatest sport in the world.” He succeeded,...
A Hard World
An Inside Look at Another Year in Boxing
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
In 2015, Booklist observed, “the arrival of Hauser’s annual boxing review is akin to Christmas morning for fight fans. Nobody knows a sport any better than Hauser knows boxing.”
Each year, readers, writers, and critics alike look forward to Thomas Hauser’s annual collection of articles...