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Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Combat sports & self-defence > Boxing
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open
Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.
Boxing is a traditional sport in many ways, characterized by
continuities in the form of practices and regulations and heavy
with legends and heroes reflecting its traditional/historical
values. Associations with class, hegemonic masculinity and
racialized inclusions/exclusions, however, sit alongside
developments such as women's boxing and involvement in Mixed
Martial Arts. This book will be the first to use boxing as a
vehicle for exploring social, cultural and political change in a
global context. It will consider to what degree and in what ways
boxing reflects social transformations, and whether and how it
contributes to those transformations. In exploring the relationship
it will provide new ways of thinking critically about the everyday.
In the second round of a defense of his IBF super featherweight
world championship, Tony "The Tiger" Lopez felt the elbow of
challenger John Molina slam into his eye. The impact of the
accidental shot shattered his orbital bone and jammed Lopez's
eyeball back into its socket. Swelling immediately sealed the eye,
a problem made worse when, in the next round, Molina opened a cut
over Lopez's other eye. The notoriously gritty champ fought seven
more rounds that night in Sacramento before losing his title by TKO
-- a story typical of those you'll read in "A Puncher's Chance:
Amazing Tales from The Ringside Boxing Show." This is the first of
a series of books chronicling the strange-but-true lives of some of
the greatest boxers and boxing personalities of all time -- yarns
spun in their own words during live interviews on The Ringside
Boxing Show, a weekly radio program that originates from Monterey,
California and streams worldwide. Prepare to be astonished by more
than a dozen of the most remarkable and improbable stories ever
told about the brutal and astonishing sport known as "The Sweet
Science."
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