Boxing category: 529 books
Boxing's Ten Commandments
Essential Training for the Sweet Science
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
This boxing handbook provides up-to-date, in-depth coaching for serious contenders. Weaving fundamental skills into a progression of drills that hone technique in increasingly complex, demanding, and realistic fighting situations, the handbook aids fighters in developing the reflexes of a complete...
by Igor Ladik, Oleksandr Kostyuk
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
It reveals the vitally important facts that will help you to survive in а dangerous situation. This is a sad truth of life that attacks and violence on innocent people happen every day in the street. It is very important to know how to defend yourself when these incidents happen....
Max Baer
Clown Prince of Boxing
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
They called Max Baer the 'Clown Prince of Boxing', but trainer Ray Arcel remembered a night in 1933 when he worked Baer's corner in what was probably Max's greatest triumph, the night he smashed Max Schmeling to defeat in ten brutal rounds. That was no clown. A year later, Baer was heavyweight champion...
Floyd Patterson
The Fighting Life of Boxing’s Invisible Champion
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
"A well-researched and overdue tribute. Like one of Patterson's reliable left hooks, Stratton sharply recounts the life of an important, but often forgotten, two-time world heavyweight champion." — Gary Andrew Poole, author of PacMan: Behind the Scenes with Manny Pacquiao
In 1956,...
Dog Rounds
Death and Life in the Boxing Ring
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
'There's a kindness in beating a man badly, and that kindness is based on correctness,' Chris Eubank
March 2016: boxer Chris Eubank Jr punches his opponent, Nick Blackwell, into a coma. Blackwell dies momentarily, before being brought back to life. He remains in a coma for seven days. The boxing...
Four Kings
Leonard, Hagler, Hearns, Duran and the Last Great Era of Boxing
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Roberto Duran, Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Sugar Ray Leonard, and Thomas "Hit Man" Hearns all formed the pantheon of boxing greats during the late 1970s and early 1980s—before the pay-per-view model, when prize fights were telecast on network television and still captured the nation's attention....
Henry Cooper
A Hero For All Time
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
When Sir Henry Cooper died in May 2011, the depth of affection in the tributes was a testament to his remarkable popularity. Put simply, Henry Cooper was the nation's favourite boxer: a gentleman and a great sportsman of whom Muhammad Ali - famously floored by Enery's 'Ammer in 1963 - remarked, 'Henry...
by Mark Heffernan
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
"From a Poor Black kid off a rough White estate....to the 'Richest Prize in Sport' the Heavyweight Championship of the World" Read my incredible journey in I am the Referee!! "Being cheated out of their dream would destroy most people. Not Ian John-Lewis...He used the hurt and pain...
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Perhaps no other heavyweight fight elevated the common man as a boxing fan than the Baer-Carnera title bout of June 1935. Braddock had fought on the undercard of the Carnera-Baer heavyweight championship fight in June 1933. Just two years later he was fighting to become world champion. Small bettors...
Believe
Boxing, Olympics and my life outside the ring
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
At London 2012, Nicola Adams made history. The flyweight boxer - nicknamed the smiling assassin - became the first ever woman to win an Olympic Gold medal for boxing. In Rio 2016, with the nation cheering her on, she did it all over again.
Growing up in Leeds, Nicola stumbled into boxing in...
A Ringside Affair
Boxing’s Last Golden Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
For three decades at the end of the twentieth century – throughout boxing's most engrossing era – James Lawton was ringside, covering every significant bout, spending time with the likes of Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Leonard, Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Tommy Hitman Hearns, Roberto Duran, Mike Tyson,...
Heavyweight Boxing in the 1970s
The Great Fighters and Rivalries
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
This work covers the individuals and events of what most consider to be the greatest era in boxing history. The first chapter compares the 1970s to all other eras, from the early 1900s and Jack Johnson to the present day and the Klitschko brothers, proving through an established set of criteria that...
by Harry Otty
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
The authorised biography of one of the greatest fighters who ever lived.
"Too good for his own good" a statement that was made by many boxing managers and promoters of the 1940s when referring to Pittsburgh's Charley Burley.
Arguably the greatest boxer never to win a world...
by Jerry Fitch
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2002
Boxing began in Cleveland in the 1880s. As pugilism was an illegal activity, brawling workers from the iron ore docks surreptitiously met on "Whiskey Island" to settle disputes. They would be followed by crowds of spectators who cheered them on and often ended up fleeing from the sheriff. Boxing grew...