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Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Combat sports & self-defence > Boxing
Everybody knows the record the stuff of almanacs, trade magazines and clipping services. A handful know the man. But only Muhammad Ali knows his life as he lived it. The Greatest is Ali's own story.
For six years he worked, traveled and talked with Richard Durham, a writer with a stunning talent, and the result is mesmerizing in its brilliance, drama, humanity and sheer entertainment. This is no documented scrapbook of wins and losses strung together with anecdotes; nor is it a thin potpourri of locker room gags. This book, like Ali who has incited every reaction except indifference goes straight to the place where responses to him have always been the gut.
When the history of the twentieth century is finally recorded, it must include Muhammad Ali. He is "The Greatest."
The Noble Art of Heavyweight Boxing is a knockout trip through the
history of this popular sport, from the last thrilling bareknuckle
contest in 1889 between champion John L. Sullivan and challenger
Jake Kilrain, right through to modern times, covering key fights
and boxing greats such as Joe Louis, Muhammad Ali, Rocky Marciano,
Joe Frazier, George Foreman, Lennox Lewis, and many, many more.
Illustrated with contemporary photographs and packed with
fascinating true details about the personalities and bouts, this
book will be a winner with every sports fan and boxing enthusiast.
Nothing to lose...When nineteen-year-old Tommy Carter throws away a
promising career as a professional boxer to work for local villain
Davey Abbott, everyone thinks he's made a huge mistake - collecting
debts and working in strip clubs is no life for a young lad just
starting out in life. Everything to gain. A brutal fighter, Tommy
quickly earns a reputation for himself - feared and respected by
everyone - and becomes Davey's trusted right-hand man. But when
Davey is murdered Tommy is shocked to learn that Davey has left his
business empire to him - Tommy's the boss now. No one believes
Tommy will succeed. But there is only one rule Tommy lives
by...always back the underdog. Because Tommy is on the way up. This
book was previously published as Barking Boy. Another gripping
gangland read by Kerry Kaya. Perfect for fans of Kimberley
Chambers, Martina Cole, Heather Atkinson and Caz Finlay.
No sport offers more allure and repulsion than the inviting and
abrasive world of boxing. Starting on the mean streets of 1950s
Chicago, this collection of essays moves into a close reflection of
the boxing world up through the glitz of today's boxing circuit.
For Ted Sares, boxing is more than a sparring match between two
combatants violently punching each another. It is a visceral
experience that reaches in all directions, from his childhood
memories of visiting the Chicago rings with his father to today's
all-out-fight demeanor of Juan Manuel Marquez and Manny Pacquiao.
At the same time tender and brutal, triumphant and tragic, in the
end these pieces are about the last man standing and the hope for
fair judgment between the victor and the defeated.
"Boxing Is My Sanctuary" is a collection of essays that
explores both sides of a sport that is colored with paradox.
Between the violent and affectionate, the barbaric and the
civilized, Sares finds a ringside refuge in the midst of the
sights, sounds, and smells that define boxing.
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Chicago Boxing
(Hardcover)
J. J. Johnston, Sean Curtin, David Mamet
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R638
Discovery Miles 6 380
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