Boxing category: 529 books
A Neutral Corner
Boxing Essays
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Fifteen previously unpublished boxing pieces written between 1952 and 1963.
Demonstrating A.J. Liebling's abiding passion for the "sweet science" of boxing, A Neutral Corner brings together fifteen previously unpublished pieces written between 1952 and 1963. Antic, clear-eyed, and...
The Sweetest Thing
A Boxer's Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Journalist and amateur boxer Mischa Merz fulfills a long-held ambition to travel across the United States and compete in a series of amateur boxing tournaments. On this wild and fascinating journey she meets her idols, including Lucia Rijker of Million Dollar Baby fame, and some other truly extraordinary...
Blood in My Coffee
The Life of the Fight Doctor
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Best known as the Fight Doctor, Ferdie Pacheco has lived a dreamer’s life. Instead of finding success in just one career, Pacheco has excelled in numerous fields. He’s been a successful pharmacist, doctor, boxing cornerman, television commentator, screenwriter, author, artist, and more. Now the...
The Hurt Business
A Century of the Greatest Writing on Boxing
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
From Jack London to Joyce Carol Oates, The Hurt Business is the ultimate boxing book covering a century of the greatest fighter and the writers who have followed 'the sweet science'.
Beginning with Jack London's account of the 1910 championship bout between Jack Johnson and James Jeffries (for...
Boxing Mastery
Advanced Technique, Tactics, and Strategies from the Sweet Science
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004
This guide to the finer points of boxing provides the wisdom needed to make the transition from enthusiastic beginner to proficient pugilist. The ABCs of ring generalship, offensive and defensive ring movements, feints, and draws and fakes are examined and explained along with clinching techniques,...
Boxer's Start-Up
A Beginner's Guide to Boxing
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1998
A user-friendly, highly illustrated, straightforward boxing guide that promotes fun, fitness, self-defense, and self-confidence. Endorsed by USA Boxing, national governing body for amateur boxing.
Chinese Internal Boxing
Techniques of Hsing-I and Pa-Kua
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Chinese Internal Boxing: Techniques of Hsing-I and Pa-kua is an illustrated martial arts guide to two soft-style Chinese martial arts.
Chinese internal boxing and other internal martial arts do not depend on muscular strength. Instead, their power is drawn from the cultivation and practical...
Hit Man
The Thomas Hearns Story
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Thomas Hearns ranks as one of the greatest and most exciting fighters of all-time. From his explosion onto the pro boxing scene with seventeen straight knockouts, he struck fear into opponents and awe into spectators. He went on to feature in some of the most thrilling bouts ever and became the first...
The Arc of Boxing
The Rise and Decline of the Sweet Science
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
Are today’s boxers better than their predecessors, or is modern boxing a shadow of its former self? Boxing historians discuss the socioeconomic and demographic changes that have affected the quality, prominence and popularity of the sport over the past century. Among the interviewees are world-renowned...
Muhammad Ali: A Memoir
A fresh and personal account of a boxing champion
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
'A riveting read about an amazing man' THE SUN
Legendary boxer Muhammad Ali visited Michael Parkinson's chat show sofa four times, culminating in an iconic interview in 1971.
Muhammad Ali: A Memoir is a fresh, revealing and personal account of the life of the most important and enduring...
Hsing-I
Chinese Internal Boxing
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Master Chinese internal boxing or Hsing-I with this illustrated martial arts guide.
Unlike most martial arts, Chinese internal (soft-style) boxing does not depend on muscular strength. The secret behind its power lies in the cultivation and practical application of internal energy-ch'i, There...
by J.J. Johnston, Sean Curtin
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2005
Professor Mike Donovan, Battling Nelson�"The Durable Dane," and "Stockyards" Harold Smith� their stories are as colorful as their names. Chicago�s boxing history is as exciting and unpredictable as any prize fight within the ring. Some of the most memorable bouts�great, infamous or otherwise�took...
by Gene Aguilera
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Welcome to the colorful, flamboyant, and wonderful world of Mexican American boxing in Los Angeles. From the minute they stepped into the ring, Mexican American fighters have electrified fans with their explosiveness and courage. These historical images bring to life a sociological culture consisting...
Boxer's Bible of Counterpunching
The Killer Response to Any Attack
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
All the tools necessary to build a powerful defensive base for boxing—every defense for every punch from every angle—are included in this manual. Punching prowess has become equated with boxing, but what is done in response to that incoming flurry makes a truly good boxer: how to make an opponent...