This updated edition of Gorn's highly influential history of the early prize rings features a new afterword, the author's meditation on the ways in which studies of sport, gender, and popular culture have changed in the quarter century ...
He had joined the spectators of a prize - fight near Brighton race - course when , the main bout over , a Sussex bruiser named Haines challenged all - comers for a small stak Sayers produced his money . He was overmatched in age ...
In August 1998, Nelson went to a small city in Sicily called Calatafimi to referee a World Boxing Union middleweight title fight between champion Silvio Branco and Guyana's Anthony Andrews. “The day before the bout,” Nelson recalled, ...
Browder , 352 U.S. 903 ( 1956 ) , the Supreme Court ruled that the Montgomery , Alabama , law requiring segregation violated the Constitution . This transportation case overturned Plessy v . Ferguson ( 1896 ) and its separate - but ...
Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times
The Complete Guide to Boxing Fitness Training
The Best Boxing Fitness Book in the World!Whether you're serious about boxing or just serious about getting in shape this book will help.
A former middleweight champion of the world gives advice on equipment, stance, movements, offensive and defensive boxing, and strategy.
In Ring of Hate he offers the saga of two decent human beings drawn together by their chosen profession and divided by the cruel demands of competing nations."--Jacket.
An exquisite publication, 166 pages, with 64 pages of historic photographs, 6 x 9, hardcover, printed on archival stock.
Pictorial History of Boxing
Published together for the first time, this anthology of essays on boxing covers the sport in all its forms and at its many levels.
Boxing Shadows: 1500 Boxing Quiz Questions
Born in a South Africa divided by racism and hatred, little six-year-old Peekay learns one day that small can beat big.
Greatest of All Time: A Tribute to Muhammad Ali
Boxing Pinback Buttons
The Boxing Dictionary: The Language of the Ring
The author's recollections of his fifty-year career in sports broadcasting also offers a definitive yet personal account of boxing's "golden age" and a chronicle of the evolution of radio and television broadcasting
The Illustrated History of Boxing
Boxing: An Illustrated History