Boxing category: 529 books
Mi Vida Loca
The Crazy Life of Johnny Tapia
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
There is only one winner in boxing. Fighting against your opponent and fighting against your own inner demons become one in the same. Those who survive both in and out of the ring are beloved worldwide. Those who do not spiral downward into drugs, prison, and even murder. "[My] life's been pretty...
by Henry Brown
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Was Muhammed Ali really "the greatest"? It's considered heresy to suggest otherwise in some circles--especially among those who haven't watched many professional fights. This article goes where the Ali-worshippers fear to tread.
That's just one sacred cow tipped over by Henry Brown. But in...
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2016
Charles Sonny Liston was an ex-con who entered boxing in 1953 after serving a term in prison in Missouri. He learned to fight on the streets of St. Louis. The first two years of the 1960s decade were eventful for Sonny, not just because of speculation of a possible title shot with heavyweight champion...
by Secret Squirrel
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
This is the autobiography, or perhaps the public confessional, of the author. It will come as a complete shock to his family, friends and work colleagues who all think that they know him, but alas, they don’t…His family certainly know nothing of his boxing and criminal underworld activities...
Dempsey
By the Man Himself
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
“To millions there has never a fighter like Jack Dempsey, and there never will be again.”
Originally published in 1960, this is the autobiography from boxing heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey himself, as told to U.S. sports writers Bob Considine and Bill Slocum.
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2014
Mike DeJohn came from a family of boxers in Syracuse, New York. His brother, Joey, was a popular middleweight in the 1950s, as had been his brother Ralph in the late 1930s. Another brother, Johnny, managed Mike for the better part of his boxing career. Mike gained an early unexpected victory with...
by Frank Foster
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
There are not many boxing stories that have happy endings. Roberto Duran's seems to be one. Now in his sixties he has both his faculties and an intact body. He still has money and his wife of more than four decades and his family are his greatest joys. He lives in a country that worships him.
For...
Fight
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Ass-Kicking but Were Afraid You'd Get Your Ass Kicked for Asking
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
Crushing your enemies, driving them before you, and hearing the lamentations of their women? It doesn't get any better than this." –Eugene Robinson, ripping off John Milius
That's the sentiment that surges just below the surface of Eugene Robinson's Fight – an engrossing, intimate...
LIFE ALI
A Life in Pictures
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
For Muhammad Ali, the high drama that he generated within the boxing ring with his athletic prowess was more than matched by the drama that he generated outside of it, and it was stated by many that as the 20th century closed, he was the best known and the most beloved figure in the world. He was...
Judo Training Methods
A Sourebook
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
A product of over twenty years of exhaustive research, Judo Training Methods is a comprehensive examination of the Japanese Judo.
Written by martial arts authority Donn Draeger and judo champion and instructor Takahiko Ishikawa, it is an expert martial arts guide. Although the examples are...
Joe Louis
The Life of a Heavyweight
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Joe Louis held the heavyweight boxing championship longer than any other fighter and defended it a record 25 times. (In the 1930s and 1940s, the owner of the heavyweight title was the most prominent non-team sports competitor.) In addition, Louis helped bridge the gap of understanding between whites...
Sting Like a Bee
Muhammad Ali vs. the United States of America, 1966-1971
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
An insightful portrait of Muhammad Ali from the New York Times bestselling author of At the Altar of Speed and The Big Bam. It centers on the cultural and political implications of Ali's refusal of service in the military—and the key moments in a life that was as high profile and transformative...
Bouts of Mania
Ali, Frazier, and Foreman--and an America on the Ropes
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Bouts of Mania describes the glorious era when Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, and George Foreman fought each other in every possible combination, on nearly every possible continent. In their most memorable bouts from 1971 to 1975, the three men created athletic set pieces that continue to resonate: the...
by Johnny Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
A self-confessed coward, Johnny Nelson hoped his opponents wouldn't turn up. He twice froze when given the chance to take the world title. Glenn McCrory declared: 'He's scared. I don't think he'll ever do it now' and even Johnny's mother mocked him. But by the time of his recent retirement, Johnny...