Boxing category: 529 books
by Deon Potgieter
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Many tales have been told of boxers who have risen up against the odds to achieve success in their lives. None, however, has been as dramatic and had such a profoundly inspirational influence on the people who shared the dream as the true life story of the man they call The Rose of Soweto. Dingaan...
by Mark Hatmaker
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Going beyond the standard workout for boxers, this innovative manual introduces a diverse set of training methods, integrating them into drill sets that build the athletic attributes for which past and present fighters are known. From Leroy Jones sparring with chickens and Ken Norton’s 15 combined...
Born to Fight
The True Story of Richy Crazy Horse Horsley
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2008
There are few men tougher than Richy Horsley. Boxer, street fighter, and bouncer, Crazy Horse, as he is better known, is part of the underbelly of the hardman scene. So tough is he, that he has even accepted a challenge from Britain's most dangerous prisoner, Charles Bronson, to be his first boxing...
From Pancho to Pacquiao
Philippine Boxing In and Out of the Ring
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This light volume is a snapshot of more than a century of Philippine boxing. It is a compilation of lucid and readable biographies of outstanding Philippine-born and Filipino American boxers, from Francisco "Pancho Villa" Guilledo to Manny "People's Champ" Pacquiao. Each story...
Answer the Bell
Inventing Your Life as a Champion
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
Answer the Bell is a first-hand account of Vaden’s meteoric rise from the streets of San Diego and the Jackie Robinson YMCA to Las Vegas’s MGM Grand Hotel & Casino and the memorable 1995 Pettway-Vaden match when Vaden captured the world junior middleweight title with a TKO in the 12th round. During...
The Bite Fight
Tyson, Holyfield and the Night That Changed Boxing Forever
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
The infamous boxing match between Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield on June 28, 1997, was like none other in the sport’s history, and this insightful account of the anticipation, the gruesome fight itself, and the ongoing aftermath of that one night reveals just how much of an impact it really made....
Wing Chun for MMA
How to use Wing Chun for modern fighting, self-defense, and sport
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
Does Wing Chun Suck?
In the 80s we had The Karate Kid. In the 2000s we have MMA. Among MMA fighters, Muay Thai and Brazilian Jiujitsu are among the most popular art forms. Somehow, Wing Chun, also known as Wing Tsun or Ving Tsun depending on your lineage, has managed to stay...
Pa-kua
Eight-Trigram Boxing
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 1990
This book outlines the history and techniques of Pa-kua-a style of boxing based on the eight (pa) trigrams (kua) of the I Ching.
This martial arts guide gives a thorough account of the philosophy behind the art. It also presents to the West for the first the orthodox style of the last Chinese...
Give Me A Ring
The Autobiography of Star Referee Mickey Vann
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
Micky Vann is one of the world's top boxing referees. He has been involved in more than 350 championship fights, over 100 of which were world title fights. Outspoken and brutally honest, his hard-hitting views have often found him at the centre of controversy. The biggest night of his career - the...
Rings
On the Life and Family of a Southern Fighter
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
In this momentous debut, Randy Bates finds in the daily lives of one American family the pathos and drama we usually associate with the finest fiction. Rings is strict, however, in presenting only actual people and incidents. The book takes as its protagonist Collis Phillips, a black man who, one...
The Mad and the Bad
Boxing Tales of Murder, Madness and Mayhem
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
From the present day back to the bareknuckle era and the 18th-century prize ring, boxing has always had its wacky warriors and masters of menace. All these larger-than-life characters had one thing in common - talent in abundance. Some used it, others wasted it. Â Many big-draw fighters were born...
Sinner and Saint
The Inspirational Story of Martin Murray
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Sinner and Saint is the inspirational story of Martin Murray, St Helens' flawed yet favourite son. A promising amateur teenage boxer, Murray was drawn into a life fuelled with drugs, alcohol and street fighting. By the age of 24, he had completed four jail sentences, one of them in a notorious Cypriot...
Mooresy - The Fighter's Fighter
My Autobiography - Jamie Moore
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Mooresy: The Fighter's Fighter is the life story of one of Britain's most-loved boxers. Not always an angelic teen and a product of the 'Salford Overspill', Jamie Moore was sucked into the slipstream of the thrill which came with car theft. At 15, his luck ran out after a helicopter police chase. Boxing...
Punching Above their Weight
The Irish Olympic Boxing Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Ireland’s amateur boxing story is one of blood, sweat and tears – and not just in the ring.
Ireland is one of the world’s leading nations in the sport. This is the inside story of a great tradition – a story of physical prowess, gritty determination, devastating defeats, sheer bad luck,...