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1) Boxing News
Series
Publisher
ID Sports Media Limited
Language
English
Description
Boxing News – Every Fight, Every Punch, Every Week, we take you ringside with us! • Enjoy exclusive news, features, videos, interviews and galleries • Ringside reports from big international fights to the small halls • Expert pre-fight analysis of the contests people are talking about Written by our experienced editorial team, international journalist network and exclusive contributions from big-name sporting legends Further information:
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Series
Wicked Women of Whitechapel volume 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Magnetic and educated, Marianne Simpson has the manner of a lady and the looks of a lover, not a fighter. Neither of which explains her occupation as a boxer in her uncle's circus, Farnham's Fantastical Female Fayre. Nonetheless, when St. John Powell, the exquisitely handsome Duke of Staunton, begins turning up at her shows, she finds herself dangerously distracted by the powerful peer's mysterious presence. With her safety at stake, Marianne's days...
3) TransBoxing
Publisher
Lightbeam
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Trans Boxing is an art project in the form of a boxing club that was started in New York City in 2017 by Nolan Hansen. The project began as an effort to encourage the participation of transgender, non-conforming, and non-binary people in boxing. Over the years, an amazing community has been built around this sport. Trans Boxing offers training, education, and mentorship through weekly classes. They help others explore their strength both physically...
4) Boxing gym
Publisher
Frederick Wiseman (Zipporah)
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
The subject of this film is an Austin, Texas institution, Lord's Gym, which was founded over twenty years ago by Richard Lord, a former professional boxer. A wide variety of people of all ages, races, ethnicities and social classes train at the gym: men, women, children, doctors, lawyers, judges, business men and women, immigrants, professional boxers and people who want to become professional boxers alongside amateurs who love the sport and teenagers...
Publisher
All Channel Films
Pub. Date
1980.
Language
English
Description
Lee Yi Min stars as a young boy, Ah Pao, who wants to learn kung fu so that he can avenge his father's death at the hands of the Ghost Faced Killer (Mark Long). The Ghost Faced Killer, meanwhile is hunting down a number of clan leaders who all conspired to have him killed. Before attacking, the killer always throws down his "ghost face killing plate," a decorated metal plate with a red face. He then uses his distinctive five elements style. Ah Pao...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
English
Description
Records of modern female boxing date back to the early eighteenth century in London, and in the 1904 Olympics an exhibition bout between women was held. Yet it was not until the 2012 Olympics-more than 100 years later-that women's boxing was officially added to the Games. Throughout boxing's history, women have fought in and out of the ring to gain respect in a sport traditionally considered for men alone. The stories of these women are told for the...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The chief sportswriter for the Daily Express and the Independent describes compelling events in boxing from 1977 through 2002, discussing his ringside observations and experiences with such greats as Muhammad Ali and Evander Holyfield.
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Lttlefield
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
English
Description
Sports fans have long been fascinated with boxing and the brutal demonstration of physical and psychological conflict. Accounts of the sport appear as far back as the third millennium BC, and Greek and Roman sculptors depicted the athletic ideals of the ancient era in the form of boxers. In the present day, boxers such as Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, Sugar Ray Robinson, Oscar De La Hoya, Manny Pacquiao, and Floyd Mayweather, Jr. are recognized throughout...
Author
Publisher
West Virginia University Press
Pub. Date
©2018.
Language
English
Description
Questions of class and gender in Appalachia have, in the wake of the 2016 presidential election and the runaway success of Hillbilly Elegy, moved to the forefront of national conversations about politics and culture. From Todd Snyder, a first generation college student turned college professor, comes a passionate commentary on these themes in a family memoir set in West Virginia coal country. 12 Rounds in Lo's Gym is the story of the author's father,...
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing, a Herman Graf Book
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Once upon a time, of all the memories made in ballparks and arenas from California to New York, there was nothing to rival that magic moment that could grab a heavyweight fight crowd by its collective jugular vein and trigger a tsunami of raw emotion before a single punch had even been thrown. That's the way it was when the heavyweight giants danced in the boxing ring during the golden eras of the greats Ali, Frazier, Holmes, and Spinks, to name...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"This memoir is the culmination of Fiaz Rafiq's two decades of work behind the scenes as a sports journalist, gaining the trust and confidence of the best fighters in boxing and MMA. The result is a fascinating odyssey, a coming-of-age story populated by some of the most colorful characters in the world of sports and entertainment."--
Author
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Olympic gold medalist. Two-time world heavyweight champion. Hall of Famer. Infomercial and reality TV star. George Foreman's fighting ability is matched only by his acumen for selling. Yet the complete story of Foreman's rise from urban poverty to global celebrity has never been told until now. Raised in Houston's "Bloody Fifth" Ward, battling against scarcity in housing and food, young Foreman fought sometimes for survival and other times just for...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
"This book is a collection of twenty-eight of the best articles on boxing by renowned boxing historian Mike Silver, looking back at some of the sport's most iconic moments. The essays are a colorful mix of hard-hitting exposés and light-hearted stories featuring legendary boxers Sugar Ray Robinson, Rocky Marciano, Muhammad Ali, and more"--
Author
Publisher
Ulysses Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Pump up your fitness routine by following former Olympic boxer Jennifer Dugwen Chieng's badass boxing regimen. It's a high-intensity, full-body workout that is just as fun as it is impactful! This book teaches classic boxing techniques with lessons on footwork, punches, endurance, core strengthening and more.
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