Boxing category: 529 books
Making the Weight
Boxing's Lethal Secret
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2014
Barry J Whyte examines the dangers of boxing’s 24-hour weigh-in by looking into the far-reaching consequences of a fight between Joey Gamache and Arturo Gatti in February 2000. He shines a light on a controversial system which allows boxers to ‘boil down’ for the weigh-in the day before the...
Running with the Champ
My Forty-Year Friendship with Muhammad Ali
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
The “affectionate…charming” (Kirkus Reviews) story of Tim Shanahan’s remarkable and little-known forty-year friendship with boxing legend Muhammad Ali, filled with stories never told as well as never-before-published personal photos.
In 1975, Tim Shanahan was a medical instruments salesman...
War, Baby
The Glamour of Violence
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
25th February 1995
The Dark Destroyer vs the G-Man
Nigel Benn and Gerald McClennan
Two men with a reputation to defend - a reputation for brutal, unforgiving combat both in the ring and outside it. Ostensibly, they were fighting for a world title and a lot of money, the stuff of professional...
by Peter Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience.
Bare-Knuckle Britons and Fighting Irish
Boxing, Race, Religion and Nationality in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Boxing was phenomenally popular in 18th and 19th century Britain. Aristocrats attended matches and patronized boxers, and the most important fights drew tens of thousands of spectators. Promoters of the sport claimed that it showcased the timeless and authentic ideal of English manhood—a rock of...
GOMEZ: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY
It's Not a Story, It's My Life!
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
Michael Gomez was a talented featherweight with the world at his feet but his meteoric rise was derailed by his activities outside the ring. Yet he was lucky to be alive at all; born in a car crash into a penniless Irish traveller family, every day was a fight for survival. Then, when he discovered an...
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Ray Impelletiere was one of the super tall heavyweight boxers to come along in the early 1930s. Perhaps the best known amongst them was Italian Primo Carnera who became Heavyweight Champion of the World. Impelletiere, a graduate of Peekskill High School in Westchester County, New York, was managed...
Think and Respect
Memoirs
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
**Profits from Think & Respect will be donated to some of Irving Ungerman's favourite charities.**
Born February 1, 1923, Irving Ungerman has always been a fighter. Weighing in at a mere two-and-a-half-pounds, he survived his birth with an invincible spirit that has sustained him throughout...
Right Hand to the Champ:13 Lessons that Changed My Life
Right Hand to the Champ
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
This highly anticipated memoir chronicles twelve years Tasha Robinson-White spent working for the iconic boxing champ Floyd Mayweather Jr. As she became the CEO of Mayweather Music and the President of the Floyd Mayweather Jr. Foundation, her life and career were forever changed by the complicated...
Shadow Box
An Amateur in the Ring
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
George Plimpton makes his riskiest foray into participatory journalism--stepping into the ring against a champion boxer--in SHADOW BOX, now repackaged and including never-before-seen content from the Plimpton archives.
Stepping into the ring against light-heavyweight champion Archie Moore,...
Rocky Marciano
The Brockton Blockbuster
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Say hello to the world's only undefeated heavyweight champion, a guy called Rocky Marciano, who defied physical limitations - 'He's too small, too short, too light, too old.' With just a 67-inch reach, two left feet and under six feet tall, tough, hard-hitting Marciano blasted his way to 49 wins,...
Becoming Holyfield
A Fighter's Journey
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2008
History's only four-time world heavyweight boxing champion and one of America's most admired and beloved athletes reveals the dramatic story of his rise from poverty to the very pinnacle of the toughest sport on earth.
Barely able to make it into the heavyweight division and almost always the...
by Victor Bockris
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
'The man who has no imagination Stands on earth He has no wings He cannot fly' Muhammad Ali Just off Highway 61 in northern Pennsylvania, up the dirt drive of a wooded hill lay a place called Fighter's Heaven. This was once the training camp of the 'greatest of all times'. From early '73 through the...
Ali
The Official Portrait of "The Greatest" of All Time
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
In stunning photos and insightful text, Ali: The Official Portrait of “The Greatest” of All Time offers a definitive look at the man--and the legend--of Muhammad Ali.
“Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them--a desire, a dream, a vision....