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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.
__________ WINNER AT THE TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2021 *The
Sunday Times Number One Business Bestseller* Out now: the knockout
book about success and mindset, by one of boxing's most respected
and influential promoters. '[Relentless] fizzes with Hearn's work
ethic' - Financial Times __________ What does it take to succeed?
What is the mindset required to be the best? How do you stay at the
top of your field? How do you come back from failure? Eddie Hearn
knows what it takes. In his remarkable career, Hearn has worked
alongside some of the biggest names in sports entertainment and has
seen first-hand the grit and relentless determination that it takes
to succeed. Structured around the key skills that Eddie Hearn
values the most, this book looks at his business, life, and the
drive to succeed. Covering subjects such as discipline, passion,
preparation, motivation and failure, this book shows you what it
takes to get the most in your life and career. In this insightful
and revealing book, Eddie talks about the highs and lows of his
career - from negotiating a billion dollar boxing deal to selling
out Wembley for the Joshua Klitschko fight - and draws the valuable
lessons that we can learn from boxing's toughest performers.
__________ 'Arguably the world's most powerful boxing promoter' -
Financial Times 'The most powerful man in British boxing' Business
Insider 'Eddie Hearn has been at the forefront of boxing's
resurgence' GQ 'The biggest promoter in boxing' Square Mile
__________ The perfect book for when life deals a knockout blow, an
invaluable guide about making the most from life, drawn from the
hard-won lessons of one of the most successful boxing promoters in
the world.
Booklist called Straight Writes and Jabs, last year's collection of
boxing articles by Thomas Hauser, "wonderful writing from a
world-class jour nalist." This year's collection, Thomas Hauser on
Boxing, is the latest in the popular annuals bringing together all
Hauser's writing from the previous year. Readers will enter the
dressing room with elite champions in the moments before some of
2013's biggest fights. Hauser's award-winning investigative
journalism is on display in his prize-winning expose of the tragedy
that befell heavyweight boxer Magomed Abdusalamov. There's a look
at the incomparable Don King in the twilight of his career, and
much more.
This book constitutes the first full volume dedicated to an
academic analysis of the sport of boxing as depicted in British
film. Through close textual analysis, production and reception
histories and readings that establish social, cultural and
political contexts, the book explores the ways in which
prizefighters, amateur boxers, managers and supporters (from
Regency gentry to East End gangsters) are represented on the
British screen. Exploring a complex and controversial sport, it
addresses not only the pain-versus-reward dilemma that boxing
necessarily engenders, but also the frequently censorious attitude
of those in authority, with boxing's social development
facilitating a wider study around issues of class, gender and race,
latterly contesting the whole notion of 'Britishness'. Varying in
scope from Northern circuit comedies to London-based
'ladsploitation' films, from auteur entries by Alfred Hitchcock to
programme fillers by E.J. Fancey, the boxing film also serves as a
prism through which one can trace major historical shifts in the
British film industry.
'Rahaman has, at last, written the definitive biography on his late
brother, which tells the real Ali story' - Mike Tyson 'The real
life of the Great One' - George Foreman 'A must for fight fans' -
Sunday Sport 'A welcome and insightful addition to Ali literature'
- Sunday Times 'Heart-warming, multi-faceted and hard-hitting [...]
Unlike any other biography on Muhammad Ali' - Fox Sports More words
have been written about Muhammad Ali than almost anyone else. He
was, without doubt, the world's most-loved sportsman. At the height
of his celebrity he was the most famous person in the world. And
yet, until now, the one voice missing belonged to the man who knew
him best - his only sibling, and best friend, Rahaman Ali. No one
was closer to Ali than Rahaman. Born Cassius and Rudolph Arnett
Clay, the two brothers grew up together, lived together, trained
together, travelled together, and fought together in the street and
in the ring. A near-constant fixture in his sibling's company,
Rahaman saw Ali at both his best and his worst: the relentless
prankster and the jealous older brother, the outspoken advocate,
the husband and father. In My Brother, Muhammad Ali, he is able to
offer a surprising insider's perspective on the well-known stories,
as well as never-before-told tales, painting a rich and intimate
portrait of a proud, relentlessly polarizing, yet often vulnerable
man. In this extraordinary, poignant memoir, Rahaman tells a much
bigger and more personal story than in any other book on the great
man - that of two brothers, almost inseparable from birth to death.
It is the final and most important perspective on one of the most
iconic figures of the last century.
Many books have discussed boxing in the ancient world, but this is
the first to describe how boxing was reborn in the modern world.
Modern boxing began in the Middle Ages in England as a criminal
activity. It then became a sport supported by the kings and
aristocracy. Later it was again outlawed and only in the 20th
century has it become a sport popular around the world. This book
describes how modern boxing began in England as an outgrowth of the
native English sense of fair play. It demonstrates that boxing was
the common man's alternative to the sword duel of honour, and
argues that boxing and fair play helped Englishmen avoid the
revolutions common to France, Italy and Germany during the
eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. English enthusiasm
for boxing largely drove out the pistol and sword duels from
English society. And although boxing remains a brutal sport, it has
made England one of the safest countries in the world. It also
examines how the rituals of boxing developed: the meaning of the
parade to the ring; the meaning of the ring itself; why only two
men fight at one time; why the fighters shake hands before each
fight; why a boxing match is called a prizefight; and why a
knock-down does not end the bout. Its sources include material from
medieval manuscripts, and its notes and bibliography are extensive.
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Oscar Battling Matthew Nelson was without question the toughest and
most durable professional boxer ever to enter a ring. Obscure,
although he was selected by the Hall of Fame as part of their third
induction class, unheard of yet often appropriately called the most
hardwearing boxer in ring history, overlooked, yet many boxing
historians rank him among the 100 greatest boxers ever. From the
moment he set foot in the ring, he presented himself as a man's
man, a Danish immigrant of integrity who never smoked, drank or
took a dive, and in both his pugilistic exploits and his often very
public behavior established a heroic image of himself as an
athlete-a world lightweight champion-and sportsman, reporter,
entertainer, real estate mogul, businessman and lady's man. As the
first champion in his division to ever mount a comeback, he broke
new ground, even if it wasn't always pretty, or ultimately
successful. In the years since his death in 1954, there has been
little disagreement over the significance of his life: A bona fide
ring champion, whose endurance was second to none, and whose
trilogy with Joe Gans was one of the greatest in sports history.
"Hookers. Murder. Boxing. Author Patrick Connor lays out the
promise of all three right there in the title of his first book,
'Shot at a Brothel'...delivering on the promise...Readers who want
to see the Ali era from a less explored angle, with a story that
stands on its own, are well served with this read."-Cliff Rold,
Managing Editor, Boxingscene Oscar Bonavena remains a god in
Argentina. Fighting as a heavyweight during the 1970s, the
division's greatest era, "Ringo" battled titans like Muhammad Ali
and Joe Frazier. To resurrect his career, he moved to Reno, Nevada,
and hooked up with a local pimp and gangster, Joe Conforte, who ran
the infamous Mustang Ranch with his madam wife, Sally. Bonavena had
some of boxing's best handlers, but none - from famous trainers to
rich syndicates to the sport's top minds-could tame him. And no one
could get Conforte and his whorehouse and ex-con goons out of Reno.
Ultimately, Ringo plunged into a maelstrom of sex and mayhem-and he
wouldn't get out alive. In Shot at a Brothel, Patrick Connor
examines in riveting detail Bonavena's fast, turbulent life as well
as Conforte's sordid past. Long overdue, here's the real story of
how gangsterism, greed, and prostitution destroyed Argentina's
greatest heavyweight. Shot at a Brothel: The Spectacular Demise of
Oscar "Ringo" Bonavena is the sixth in the Hamilcar Noir True Crime
series. Hamilcar Noir is "Hard-Hitting True Crime" that blends
boxing and true crime, featuring riveting stories captured in
high-quality prose, with cover art inspired by classic pulp novels.
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