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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.
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.
Thirty years after he burst onto the scene as a gold medal light-heavyweight at the Rome Olympics, Muhammad Ali is still a magical figure. His accomplishments in the ring were the stuff of legend -- the two fights with Sonny Liston, when he proclaimed himself "The Greatest" and proved he was; the three epic wars against Joe Frazier; the stunning victory over George Foreman in Zaire; and the shocking loss and final win that made him the first man to win back the heavyweight crown twice, fourteen years after he had first claimed it. Ali's life has been played out as much on the front pages as on the sports pages. With brilliant immediacy and unprecedented candor, bestselling author Thomas Hauser recreates this extraordinary man. In the words of more than 200 of Ali's family members, opponents, friends, world leaders, and others who have known him best, the real Muhammad Ali emerges: deeply religious, mercurial, generous, a showman in and out of the ring.
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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