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Eder Jofre: Brazil’s First Boxing World Champion  by Christopher Smith

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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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Book Announcement:  Fight Sports and the Church:  Boxing and Martial Arts Ministries in America

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 Fight Sports and the Church:  Boxing and Martial Arts Ministries in America  by Richard Wolff BOOK DETAILS:  Fight sports and the church might at first seem like an unusual combination.  Even so, modern fight sports ministries thrive, from martial arts programs of suburban churches, to urban boxing ministries geared towards at-risk youth.  History finds substantial

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The Irish Heavyweight Book Encyclopedia of  Irish Heavyweight Boxing

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Just released The Irish Heavyweight Book Encyclopedia of  Irish Heavyweight Boxing Vol 1 (1880-1925)  By Matt Donnellon Good Irish boxing books are rare so this new book is a very welcome addition. This is the second book from the author of “Peter Maher, The Irish Champion” which resurrected the life and career of that former

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The World Colored Heavyweight Championship, 1876-1937 By Mark Allen Baker

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For six decades the World Colored Heavyweight Championship was a useful tool of racial oppression–the existence of the title far more important to the white public than its succession of champions. It took some extraordinary individuals, most notably Jack Johnson, to challenge “the color line” in the ring, although the title and the black fighters

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The Night the Referee Hit Back: Memorable Moments from the World of Boxing by Mike Silver

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The Night the Referee Hit Back: Memorable Moments from the World of Boxing by Mike Silver Foreword by Teddy Atlas What do Sugar Ray Robinson, Muhammad Ali, Marlon Brando, Sonny Liston, Woody Allen, Floyd Mayweather Jr., and Teddy Roosevelt all have in common? They are among the dozens of fascinating personalities who appear in Mike

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Nonpareil Jack Dempsey: Boxing’s First World Middleweight Champion

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Nonpareil Jack Dempsey: Boxing’s First World Middleweight Champion by Joseph S. Page (Author) / Foreword by Tracy Callis DESCRIPTION: Hall of Fame middleweight prizefighter John Edward Kelly, better known as Nonpareil Jack Dempsey, was one of the most popular athletes in the United States during the late 19th century. To many observers, Dempsey is one of

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