Boxing category: 529 books
Once There Were Giants
The Golden Age of Heavyweight Boxing
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
An International Boxing Hall of Fame sports writer recounts thirty-five years of heavyweight history: “One of those gems you can’t put down” (USA Today).
Once upon a time, of all the memories made in ballparks and arenas from California to New York, there was nothing to rival the magic moment...
The Bittersweet Science
Fifteen Writers in the Gym, in the Corner, and at Ringside
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Weighing in with a balance of the visceral and the cerebral, boxing has attracted writers for millennia. Yet few of the writers drawn to it have truly known the sport—and most have never been in the ring. Moving beyond the typical sentimentality, romanticism, or cynicism common to writing on boxing,...
Intimate Warfare
The True Story of the Arturo Gatti and Micky Ward Boxing Trilogy
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Intimate Warfare: The True Story of the Arturo Gatti and Micky Ward Boxing Trilogy traces the lives and careers of two legendary fighters—Micky Ward, a humble, hardscrabble, blue-collar Irishman from Lowell, Massachusetts, and Arturo Gatti, a handsome, flashy, charismatic Italian-born star who was...
by Adam Smith
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
Boxing. The Sport of Kings. And for every king, there are kingmakers and princes, determined heirs and ruthless pretenders to the throne. Boxers may enter the ring alone, but behind them are their families, many of whom have spent a career in the fight game themselves. And all are caught up in this...
Willie Pep vs. Sandy Saddler
Notes on the Boxing Legends and Epic Rivalry
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
Any discussion of great boxers must include Willie Pep and Sandy Saddler—midcentury featherweight champions whose heroics electrified the fistic world then and reverberate today. This book explores the boxing lives of both pugilists—early years, fighting years, training and conditioning, historical...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Boxing has been a part of our history going back centuries. Whether it’s bare knuckle or the pay-per-view fights we see today, it has been a staple in our lives. In Classic Boxing Stories, Paul D. Staudohar has collected work from dozens of writers, telling stories about the sport that has been...
by Professor of Sociology Kath Woodward
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Boxing is a traditional sport in many ways, characterized by continuities in the form of practices and regulations and heavy with legends and heroes reflecting its traditional/historical values. Associations with class, hegemonic masculinity and racialized inclusions/exclusions, however, sit alongside...
Boxing Like the Champs
Lessons from Boxing's Greatest Fighters
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
How did the old school, all time champs — like Jack Dempsey, Kid McCoy, Sonny Liston and Stanley Ketchel — do it? This manual examines some of the best and most interesting fighters in boxing history and gets inside the historical import of what they accomplished. Examining the training, technique...
by William F. McNeil
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
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. The book focuses on the Catskill Boxing Club—where boxing guru...
Boxing. Perfect for the Street Fight
8 Powerful Tricks
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2014
This book «BOXING. PERFECT FOR THE STREET FIGHT. 8 POWERFUL TRICKS» is the third book in the series «BOXING TRICKS FOR THE STREET FIGHT». "Attacks and violence on innocent people happen every day in the street. It is very important to know how to defend yourself when...
Boxing, Masculinity and Identity
The 'I' of the Tiger
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2006
Boxing is infused with ideas about masculinity, power, race and social class, and as such is an ideal lens through which social scientists can examine key modern themes. In addition, its inherent contradictions of extreme violence and beauty and of discipline and excess have long been a source of...
by Frank Oliver
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
In his prime Mike Tyson was the most dominant fighter the sport of boxing had ever seen. At twenty he became the youngest heavyweight champion in history after winning his first nineteen fights by knockout, half of them inside the first round.This biography covers Tyson’s life and professional...
by J.P. Flain
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
Boxers do what the vast majority of us will never do: they stand toe-to-toe and try to inflict as much punishment upon each other as possible. In Chasing Rocky, J. P. Flaim, a suburban father of two and cohost of The Sports Junkies on 106.7 The Fan in Washington, DC, became a part of that small percentage...
Bert Sugar on Boxing
The Best Of The Sport's Most Notable Writer
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005
"Entertaining, insightful, and eminently colorful-the next best thing to being at the fights."--New York Sportscene
". . . anyone taking a trip through the sport's hardscrabble past couldn't ask for a better guide..."--The Ring
Known as the "guru" of boxing, Bert Randolph Sugar is one...