Lou Ambers: A Biography of the World Lightweight Champion and Hall of Famer By Mark Allen Baker About the Book Born Luigi d’Ambrosio, Lou Ambers grew up in Herkimer, New York, during the Great Depression. He and his nine siblings watched their father lose his business. Then they lost their father. Taking to the ring as […]
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I’d like to share with the membership my new piano composition, The Goldfield Rag, inspired by the memory and legacy of boxing great Joe Gans’s Goldfield Hotel, one of the first if not the first so-called black and tan clubs in American history, estd. 1907 in Baltimore, MD. Premiered at the 2022 Scott Joplin International
The Minnesota Boxing Hall of Fame has canceled it’s annual banquet and induction ceremonies for 2022. The Minnesota Boxing Hall of Fame is a non-profit organization made up of five board members and six additional voting members, dedicated to honoring and preserving the names of those who have contributed to professional boxing during its history
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George Dixon: The Short Life of Boxing’s First Black World Champion, 1870–1908 by Jason Winders
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The Life and Crimes of John Morrissey: Bare-Knuckle Boxing Champion, New York Gangster, Irish American Politician by Kenneth Bridgham (Author) In 1855, New York City was scandalized by one of the most infamous murders in its history, that of gang leader Bill “the Butcher” Poole, the feared knife-fighter who later would inspire Daniel Day-Lewis’s character in Martin
Shot at a Brothel: The Spectacular Demise of Oscar “Ringo” Bonavena By Patrick Connor Coming August 2021! Description In Shot at a Brothel, Patrick Connor reveals the salacious story of how handsome, playful, heavyweight boxer Oscar “Ringo” Bonavena wound up murdered outside of an infamous Nevada brothel, and why. Argentine heavyweight Oscar “Ringo” Bonavena was
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Eder Jofre: Brazil’s First Boxing World Champion March 26, 2021 by Christopher J Smith (Author) DESCRIPTION: Eder Jofre: Brazil’s First Boxing World Champion is an intimate look into the life and spectacular career of South America’s finest boxer, ranked by the International Boxing Research Organization as the greatest bantamweight of all-time. In the 1960s, Jofre went undefeated
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Connecticut Boxing: The Fights, The Fighters and The Fight Game
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Sporting Blood: Tales from the Dark Side of Boxing by Carlos Acevedo BOOK DETAILS: The essays that make up Sporting Blood include Acevedo’s moving meditation on Muhammad Ali; his penetrating look at Ali’s fearsome rival, the enigmatic Charles “Sonny” Liston; and his profile of Mike Tyson, which brilliantly conjures the Boy King’s late 1980s reign
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