In 1980, boxing was resuscitated by a riveting series of bouts involving an improbably dissimilar quartet: Sugar Ray Leonard, 'Marvelous' Marvin Hagler, Thomas Hearns and Roberto Duran. This book documents the remarkable effect they had on the sport, and argues that we will never see their likes again.
A compilation of boxing-related commentary, criticism, reportage and analysis. It dissects the triumphs, defeats and mistakes of the major figures in boxing from including Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Manny Pacquiao, Oscar De La Hoya and dozens more.
Las Vegas is a city where fortunes are won and lost on the roll of the dice, a 24-hour-a-day, neon-lit wonderland. This is Fight Town, a place where fame is only one big punch away and the high-rolling gamblers with their fat bankrolls look on to the next big win. This title tells the stories behind the fights.
Introduces readers to the 'Move and Box' training system - a fitness boxing program that helps improve physical harmony, suppleness, movement, co-ordination, reactions, and overall well-being. This volume provides a exercise regime, from proper warm-up techniques to cool-down exercises and stretches, accompanied by photographs.
Universally acclaimed as the greatest sportsman of the modern era, someone who transformed not just his sport but the cultural status of athletes everywhere, Muhammad Ali towers over the 'sweet science' of boxing, almost two decades after announcing his retirement. This book reflects the scale of Ali's many achievements.
Everyone is familiar with the gypsy race but few outside their close-knit and ancient community really know what being a gypsy is about - how they live and how they think. This is the story of a gypsy man, Jimmy Stockin, born into a world where fighting is first nature.
Billy Cribb was born into a Romani/Jewish family and spent most of his childhood travelling. His early years were marred the racism and bigotry. He became one of the greatest bare-knuckle fighters of his generation. Revealing the underground fight scene, this title traces Billy's career.
Everyone is familiar with the gypsy race but few outside their close-knit community really know what being a gypsy is about - how they live and how they think. This is the story of a gypsy man, Jimmy Stockin, born into a world where fighting is first nature.
Takes a look at Johnny Owen's life and rise to fame and tells the story of the historic week spent in Mexico with the boxer's father and trainer, Dick Owens, and of Dick's emotional reunion with the legendary boxer Lupe Pintor - the man responsible for the death of his son.
Mike Tyson is one of the most famous and controversial sportsmen in history. Despised and adored, he has been world heavyweight champion, armchair philosopher and convicted rapist. This book finds out what it was like to step into the ring with Iron Mike.
Muhammad Ali was the greatest boxer the world has ever seen, and the most charismatic athlete of all time. Mesmeric both inside the ring and out, Ali has been a role model, a spiritual thinker and a symbol of courage for thousands of people. This title presents his portrait.
Everyone knows the story of Mike Tyson's decline and fall, but what happened to the men he defeated during his irrepressible prime? This title deals with these men, tracing their lives from their upbringings and years of promise to their encounters with Tyson. It explores the pain they felt in defeat and their subsequent search for self-respect.
Hugh McIlvanney is a sports journalist, and a regular winner of the UK Sports Writer of the Year Award. This collection contains the best of his writing on his first great passion, boxing. The book features in-depth analysis of the build-up, climax and aftermath of over 25 showdowns.
From his gold medal at the 1960 Olympic Games to his defeat of Sonny Liston to claim the world heavyweight championship in 1964, the 'Thrilla in Manila' against Joe Frazier and the 'Rumble in the Jungle' against George Foreman, 'The Greatest of All Time', Muhammad Ali, has captured the attention of the world. This title collects writings on Ali.
Covering 100 epic encounters from the history of boxing, this title includes topics ranging from the bare-knuckle fights of the nineteenth century to the big business of the modern era. It features chronological accounts of famous fights that chart the progress of the champions. It is illustrated throughout with action-packed photographs.
Details the drills that can strengthen your mind, sharpen your reflexes, and enable you to exert your will over an opponent. This title helps readers learn the fundamentals for creating an intelligent fight strategy and implementing the necessary tactics it takes to win.
In 1975, at the World Heavyweight Boxing Championship in Kinshasa, Zaire, Muhammad Ali met George Foreman in the ring. Foreman's genius employed silence, serenity and cunning. He had never been defeated. Together the two men made boxing history in an explosive meeting of two great minds, two iron wills and two monumental egos.
Rubin Carter is the Hurricane. A pistol shot in a bar room ruined his chances of becoming the middleweight champion of the world. But he did not fire the gun. Nineteen long years in prison, a massively high profile campaign to release him that failed, and the persistence of an unlikely supporter finally saw him free.
Contains what you need to know about the sport, including equipment, rules, techniques and training tips. Providing information on how to find a club and meet new people to play the sport with, this book also includes colour photos and illustrations, top tips and interesting facts.
Presents facts about pugilistic history on a wide range of topics, from world champions and fights to scandals and controversies outside the ring. This book features"es, biographies, fight reports, boxing records, lists and numerous trivia entries.
Useful for those involved or interested in the sport, this book information from around the world of boxing. It includes: full career records of British-based boxers; potted biographies and annual records for all IBF, WBA, WBC and WBO champions; complete listings of British, Commonwealth, European and World champions; and more.
Weaving fundamental skills into a progression of drills that hone technique in fighting situations, this book aids fighters in developing the reflexes of a complete boxer and teaches the move from a process-and-react mentality to one of seeing-and-reacting.
Chris Jones looked for a sport to call his own when he was hired as a rookie reporter and found boxing. In this title, readers can find out what happened when he was dressed down by Don King, went to Muhammed Ali's birthday party and witnessed Naseem Hamed explode while Mike Tyson imploded.
At Farnborough in Hampshire on 17th April 1860, Tom Sayers of England and John Heenan of the United States met in boxing's first world championship bout - it truly was the Lion and the Eagle. This book tells the now-forgotten story of one of the greatest events in England's sporting history.
This is no ordinary book about boxing. Dark Trade is Donald McRae's vivid personal journey through the intense and forbidding world of the professional fight game. Tyson, Bruno, Hamed, Benn, Eubank, Watson, Jones, De La Hoya and Toney confide in him their fears and longings.
A biography of Sugar Ray Robinson, a man who was as elusive out of the ring as he was magisterial in it. This is a profile of an athlete who is the best boxer the sport has arguably ever known. Exposing Robinson's flaws as well as putting his career in the context of his life and times, it is a story of a complex man and sport-altering athlete.
Suitable for both recreational and competitive boxers, and all those who wish to take up amateur boxing, or participate in a boxing-based programme. This work offers practical advice on the many crucial factors that need to be taken into account if the boxer is to maximize his, or her, performance and potential.
On 19 July 1972, Muhammad Ali defeated Al "Blue" Lewis in 11 rounds at Croke Park, Dublin. It was an extraordinary week both for Ali and the sporting and cultural history of Ireland. Thirty years on, through interviews with dozens of those whose paths Ali crossed, Hannigan presents this narrative.
Investigates the shifting social, political and cultural resonances of boxing. This book explores the way in which the history of boxing has intersected with the history of mass media and sheds light on the work of such diverse figures as Henry Fielding and Spike Lee, Charlie Chaplin and Philip Roth, James Joyce and Colette, and Bertolt Brecht.
Jonathan Rendall delves into the psyche of fallen superstar boxer and ex-world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, bringing vividly to life a history of street-gang violence, juvenile prison, sex scandals, marital strife, courtroom battles, and imprisonment.
Muhammad Ali met George Foreman in the ring. Foreman's genius employed silence, serenity and cunning. He had never been defeated. His hands were his instrument, and 'he kept them in his pockets the way a hunter lays his rifle back into its velvet case'. This book focuses on the 1975 World Heavyweight Boxing Championship in Kinshasa, Zaire.
This evocation of the heavyweight champion and 20th-century icon concentrates on Muhammad Ali's early career, when he was still fighting as Cassius Clay. It begins with the fight between Floyd Patterson and Sonny Liston in 1962 and goes through to 1967 when Ali refused the Vietnam draft.
Presents a comprehensive history of boxing's portrayal in literature, art and film. This book traces the portrayal of the sport in literature and media, from Greek odes to hip-hop lyrics to silent films, and shows the sport to be a complex cultural act that transforms the voyeur into a participant.
Useful for anyone pursuing boxing as a hobby or who is interested in training to become a professional boxer. This book presents an introduction to the sport, including the game's history, rules of the ring, how fights are scored, how to spar, the basics of defence and offence, the fighter's workout, a directory of boxing gyms, and more.
Features the biography of boxer Freddie Welsh, an outstanding talent who died young and broke in a squalid hotel room in Hell's Kitchen. This work explores the world of boxing in the early 20th century. It also offers insights into American society of the period, where culture in all its forms entwined.
Offering a collection of the boxing stories, this title takes us all the way back to an epic bare-knuckle contest in England. It presents a portrait of 'Uncle' Mike Jacobs, the promotional impresario of boxing in its golden age. It also deals with the careers of the great names - Tyson, Holyfield, de la Hoya, Hopkins, 'Chico' Corrales, and more.
Three months after the assassination of John F Kennedy, two prizefighters named Charles 'Sonny' Liston and Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr stepped into a boxing ring in Miami to dispute the heavyweight championship of the world. This title follows the contrasting paths these two men took.
Contains information from around the world of boxing, including: career records of British-based boxers; potted biographies and annual records for IBF, WBA, WBC and WBO champions; British Area, English, Celtic, British, Commonwealth, European and World title bouts in 2007-08.
A collection of boxing stories by the author who is a legendary boxing writer. It takes us all the way back to an epic bare-knuckle contest in England 200 years ago, draws a revealing portrait of 'Uncle' Mike Jacobs, the promotional impresario of boxing in its Golden Age, and places Joe Louis and Muhammad Ali in the social history of their times.
Originally published in 1979, this book is a standard work on the evolution of rigging, mast-making and sali-making. It is a comprehensive study on the subject. It was compiled over some ten years, from information obtained from contemporary manuscripts, books and models.
When Boxing Was Boxing is a beautifully illustrated photographic celebration of the sport's heyday. A tribute to an age when the noble art was a little more dignified, and less preoccupied with money and politics of sport. It's about a time of fewer governing bodies and when boxing was regarded as the pinnacle of professional sporting endeavour.
* Ali and Ray Leonard - two of the greatest boxers in history, both trained and managed by the legendary Dundee * From early meetings and first impressions to the big fights, this is a fascinating look inside boxing and the making of history * A unique view, based on the author's personal conversations with Angelo Dundee
From Leroy Jones sparring with chickens and Ken Norton's 15 combined rounds of shadow boxing, sparring, and bag work to Ricky Hatton's staggering 12-round sparring bouts with a body belt and Kosta Tszyu's creative tennis-ball and head-strap punching apparatus, this work highlights a vocabulary of exercises, incorporating boxing-specific equipment.
Presents an investigation into the history of bareknuckle fighting, the illegal entertainment that gave rise to the sport of boxing. Bareknuckle fighting was one of the first organised spectators sports and the first to boast a World Championship. The author introduces us to the individuals and the great names of bareknuckle fighting.
First published in 1991, this anthology of boxing literature brings together some of the best writing on the sport from Britain and the USA. Spanning more than sixty years of the modern era, from Tunney to Tyson, it includes coverage of over twenty title fights, many of them classics and features all eight weight divisions.
What were the ten most fantastic knockouts in boxing history? Which pugilist had the greatest jab of all time? What were the sport's most intense rivalries? What are the biggest upsets in boxing's annals? Who had the greatest nicknames? Which trainers got the most out of their charges? This title answers these questions and many others.
Relying on in-depth research and interviews with those who have known Tyson at every stage of his life, this book portrays the shy child who became a vicious street thug, discovered boxing in juvenile prison, and was brought to the attention of the legendary Cus D'Amato to be shaped to be one thing--heavyweight champion of the world. 33 photos.
In 1938, a boxing match was to be fought between Max Schmeling and Joe Louis. After his win in 1936 against Louis, Schmeling had become the toast of Nazi Germany. Joe Louis, the black boxer, had in his corner in the black community of the US. This work tells this classic story, which captures the two fighters and the passions they aroused.
More than the world heavyweight championship was at stake when Joe Louis fought Max Schmeling on 22 June 1938. In a world on the brink of war, the contest was projected as a test of nationalistic, racial and political ideals. This is a story of two men drawn together by their chosen profession and divided by the cruel demands of warring nations.
A comprehensive work of boxing, covering the various aspects of the sport since its rise from the days of illegal big-money challenge matches to the multi-million-dollar televised extravaganza. It includes details of the careers of the world's greatest boxers, and descriptions of many of the outstanding fights.
Collected here are the best of David Miller's essays and memoirs. The volume contains his trilogy of award-winning Muhammad Ali pieces. There are also two pieces about Miller's unusual relationship with another boxer, Sugar Ray Leonard, and he continues to explore the Bruce Lee phenomenon.
Muay Thai, or Thai boxing, is one of the most exciting martial arts. From the essential Wai Kru (respect to teacher) and Ram Muay (ritual dance), through the basic techniques of punching, elbow, knee and clinching and kicking and on to advanced techniques, this book attempts to answer various questions a new student of the art might ask.
Sport can offer catharsis in times of crisis, but not this time. Liston was a mob fighter with a criminal past, and rumours were spreading that Clay was not just a noisy, bright-eyed boy blessed with more than his share of the craziness of youth, but a believer in a shadowy cult: the Nation of Islam.
A comprehensive boxing-specific training guide, this book contains descriptions and photographs of over 80 of the effective weight training, flexibility, and abdominal exercises used by athletes world-wide. It features year-round boxing-specific weight-training programs to improve your performance and get you results.
Reveals boxing's heroes and villains, mobsters and fixers, its shame and sorrows. This volume includes the enraged Mike Tyson taking a chunk out of Evander Holyfield's ear; Roberto Duran's baffling retirement against Sugar Ray Leonard; and the Riddick Bowe-Andrew Golota fiasco that ended in an ugly full-scale riot.