Boxing category: 529 books
Million Dollar Crolla
Good Guys Can Win
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
Million Dollar Crolla tells the rollercoaster story of 'the nicest man in boxing' and his remarkable path from prospect to has-been, from victim to world champion. Written off by many, an office job beckoned for Anthony Crolla before a devastating but defining fight put him back on track. After overcoming...
At the Fights: American Writers on Boxing
A Library of America Special Publication
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
Named a best book of 2011 by the San Francisco Chronicle, At the Fights is a gritty and glittering anthology of the very best writing about boxing. Here are Jack London on the immortal Jack Johnson; Richard Wright on Joe Louis’s historic victory over Max Schmeling; A. J. Liebling’s brilliantly...
Fighting Chance
Winners and Losers in the Ultimate Risk Business
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2011
Few sports polarise public opinion as boxing does. Some contend that it is repugnant and barbaric, for others a legitimate, regulated contest of skill, strength and willpower. What cannot be denied is that the fight game has produced some of sport's greatest icons. Many more are content to make a...
by Thomas J. Strang
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
Muhammad Ali was an American Olympic and professional boxer and activist. He is widely regarded as one of the most significant and celebrated sports figures of the 20th century. From early in his career, Ali was known as an inspiring, controversial and polarizing figure both inside and outside the...
The Big Fight
My Life In and Out of the Ring
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
In this unflinching and inspiring autobiography, the boxing legend faces his single greatest competitor: himself.
Sugar Ray Leonard's brutally honest and uplifting memoir reveals in intimate detail for the first time the complex man behind the boxer. The Olympic hero, multichampionship winner,...
Unbeaten
Rocky Marciano's Fight for Perfection in a Crooked World
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
From the bestselling author of The Prince of Providence, a revelatory biography of Rocky Marciano, the greatest heavyweight champion of all time.
The son of poor Italian immigrants, with short arms and stubby legs, Rocky Marciano accomplished a feat that eluded legendary heavyweight champions...
by Norman Mailer
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
In 1974 in Kinshasa, Zaïre, two African American boxers were paid five million dollars apiece to fight each other. One was Muhammad Ali, the aging but irrepressible “professor of boxing.” The other was George Foreman, who was as taciturn as Ali was voluble. Observing them was Norman Mailer, a...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
To prove I am great, he will fall in eight. Muhammad AliA lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of historys most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors American Legends series, readers can get caught up to speed on the lives of Americas...
The Domino Diaries
My Decade Boxing with Olympic Champions and Chasing Hemingway's Ghost in the Last Days of Castro's Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
A powerful and lively work of immersive journalism, Brin-Jonathan Butler's story of his time chasing the American dream through Cuba
Whether he's hustling his way into Mike Tyson's mansion for an interview, betting his life savings on a boxing match (against the favorite), becoming romantically...
Strong Boy
The Life and Times of John L. Sullivan, America's First Sports Hero
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
“I can lick any son-of-a-bitch in the world.”
So boasted John L. Sullivan, the first modern heavyweight boxing champion of the world, a man who was the gold standard of American sport for more than a decade, and the first athlete to earn more than a million dollars. He had a big ego,...
by A. J. Liebling
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
A.J. Liebling's classic New Yorker pieces on the "sweet science of bruising" bring vividly to life the boxing world as it once was. It depicts the great events of boxing's American heyday: Sugar Ray Robinson's dramatic comeback, Rocky Marciano's rise to prominence, Joe Louis's unfortunate...
by Patrick Bunker
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Mike Tyson
The Inspirational Life Story of Iron Mike Tyson; World Championship Boxer, Entertainer, Father, and Teacher
By Patrick Bunker
Mike Tyson became famous in the boxing world in the 1980’s and then became a world famous celebrity in the 1990’s. He is one of the greatest...
Money
The Life and Fast Times of Floyd Mayweather
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
This edition is fully updated to include Mayweather’s battle with UFC star Conor McGregor.Floyd ‘Money’ Mayweather is one of the most successful professional boxers of all time, with fifty professional victories in a glittering unbeaten ring career that has spanned two decades. Mayweather was...
Iron Ambition
My Life with Cus D'Amato
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
From the former heavyweight champion and New York Times–bestselling author comes a powerful look at the life and leadership lessons of Cus D’Amato, the legendary boxing trainer and Mike Tyson’s surrogate father.
"[Iron Ambition] spells out D'Amato's techniques for building a champion...