Published Boxing Books
Ingemar Johansson Swedish Heavyweight Boxing Champion By Ken Brooks Description Ingemar Johansson’s right hand—dubbed “The Hammer of Thor”—was the most fearsome in boxing, and Johansson’s three fights with Floyd Patterson rank among the sport’s classic rivalries. Yet most fans know little about the Swedish playboy who won the world heavyweight championship with a shocking third […]
Mike Silver does it Again! PRESS RELEASE Mike Silver does it again! Another fistic literary knockout! STARS IN THE RING: JEWISH CHAMPIONS IN THE GOLDEN AGE OF BOXING A Photographic History By Mike Silver By the author of the critically acclaimed “The Arc of Boxing: The Rise and Decline of the Sweet Science”, here is
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From author Roger Zotti (Friday Night World) comes The Proper Pugilist: Essays on the Milling Art (Xlibris). The warriors written about are Gene Tunney and Jack Dempsey, Rocky Marciano and Coley Wallace, Artie Diamond, Stanley Ketchel, Joe Louis and Tony Galento, Sonny Liston, and many others. As for the book’s author, as a teenager living
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Tom Molineaux: : From bondage to baddest man on the planet by Bill Calogero Book Details Two hundred years before Mike Tyson, there was Tom Molineaux! In his first book, Bill Calogero shines a light on one of the greatest unsung pioneers of the prize- ring, “Tom Molineaux. Learn why Tom Molineaux should
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When Jack Sharkey retired in 1936 after twelve years of boxing, he had carved out a career that was both exciting and controversial.
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UP TO SCRATCH Bareknuckle Fighting and Heroes of the Prize-ring (Retro Classics) by Tony Gee Product description Such was prize-fighting’s appeal during the 18th and 19th centuries that, at its zenith, the sport was patronised by royalty and aristocracy and, notwithstanding its illegality, its contests often attracted thousands of spectators from all walks of life.
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Authors TED ZALE and CLAY MOYLE have completed their collaboration on the story of the one and only Man of Steel from Gary, Indiana. Tony Zale.
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A History of Women’s Boxing traces the sport back to the 1700s, through the 2012 Olympic Games, and up to the present.
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A REVIEW OF ROLANDO VITALE’S THE REAL ROCKYS: A HISTORY OF THE GOLDEN AGE OF ITALIAN AMERICANS IN BOXING 1900 -1955
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