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Bare Knuckle

Author : Stayton Bonner
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1982650737
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (826 download)

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Download or read book Bare Knuckle written by Stayton Bonner and published by Blackstone Publishing. This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Father. Fighter. Champion. Outlaw. Hailed as an “exhilarating debut” by Publishers Weekly, Bare Knuckle by former Rolling Stone editor Stayton Bonner (nominated for the Dan Jenkins Medal of Excellence in Sportswriting) takes readers into a previously unknown world: the underground circuit of illegal bare-knuckle fighting. Bare Knuckle is the remarkable true tale of Bobby Gunn, the 73–0 undisputed champion of bare-knuckle boxing. An inspiring underdog story that reads like a real-life Rocky. Bobby Gunn has been fighting for his existence since a childhood spent living under the hand of his volatile father, and would do anything to give his seven-year-old daughter a better life—including betting on himself in the underground world of bare-knuckle boxing. In 1984, Gunn was an eleven-year-old boxer in Ontario when his father woke him in the middle of the night to fight grown men in motel parking lots for money, his old man pocketing the cash. From there, Gunn traveled to Las Vegas, Tijuana, and beyond, competing in ringed matches as well as in biker bars and mobster dens on the side, brawling to make ends meet. But it was only with the birth of his daughter—and his desire to help her avoid his fate—that Gunn entered the big-time world of underground Russian-mob matches of up to $50,000 a night in New York City, hoping to finally raise his family above the fray. Former Rolling Stone editor Stayton Bonner travels the underground for years with Gunn, the world champion of bare-knuckle boxing with a 73–0 record, shining a light on a secret circuit that’s never before been revealed. Along the way, we explore the fascinating history of this first sport in America, Gunn’s Irish Traveler community—a sect of religious fighters best known through Brad Pitt’s depiction in Snatch—as well as his part in the improbable rise of the Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship, the first legal revival of the sport. Bare Knuckle, a tale of triumph, loss, and a father’s love for his family, is a heartbreaking but ultimately inspiring story that will have you rooting until the end.

Bare Fists

Author : Bob Mee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780002189668
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book Bare Fists written by Bob Mee and published by . This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text takes a look at the forgotten world of bare-knuckle prize-fighting, from the heyday of pugilism in the 18th century, to its extinction at the end of the 19th, and its re-emergence this century in the form of illegal underground bouts.

Bare Knuckle Fighter

Author : Bartley Gorman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780954870744
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Bare Knuckle Fighter written by Bartley Gorman and published by . This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Bare-Knuckle Boxer's Companion

Author : Ulf Karlsson
Publisher : Echo Point Books & Media, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781648370984
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book The Bare-Knuckle Boxer's Companion written by Ulf Karlsson and published by Echo Point Books & Media, LLC. This book was released on 2022-03-22 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Comprehensive Guide to Bare-Knuckle Boxing Techniques Martial artists David Lindholm and Ulf Karlsson present this practical guide to learning and effectively applying the classic combative skill of bare-knuckle boxing in real-world situations. This age-old fighting practice, also known as pugilism, began long ago in Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire and developed over time into a precursor to the modern sport of boxing. Lindholm and Karlsson discuss the differences between the bare-knuckle approaches used by various historical teachers, and provide useful technical instruction on how to implement the strategies yourself. They cover stances, strikes, punches, kicks, counters, throws, and avoidance as well as essential components of training and conditioning. Studying these time-tested techniques and carefully practicing the patterns will allow you strike hard yet still protect your ungloved hands, and be able to do so in a variety of conditions and scenarios. The Bare-Knuckle Boxer's Companion is illustrated with hundreds of pictures depicting classical actions and poses, and is also rounded out with a superb bibliography of recommended historical source texts. This valuable guide is a must-have resource for any modern-day self-defense student, from beginners to experienced martial artists, as well as anyone interested in the history of fighting and boxing. This book is also available from Echo Point Books in paperback (ISBN 1648370993).

King of the Gypsies

Author : Bartley Gorman with Peter Walsh
Publisher : Milo Books Ltd
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book King of the Gypsies written by Bartley Gorman with Peter Walsh and published by Milo Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-04-06 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Legends of Bare-knuckle Boxing

Author : Patrick White
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781519549396
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (493 download)

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Download or read book The Legends of Bare-knuckle Boxing written by Patrick White and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-11-26 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bare-knuckle boxing (also known as bare-knuckle, prizefighting, fist fight or fisticuffs) is the original form of boxing, closely related to ancient combat sports. It involves two individuals fighting without boxing gloves or other padding on their hands.The difference between a street fight and a bare-knuckle boxing match is an accepted set of rules, such as not striking a downed opponent.This edition by Patrick White covers legendary bare-knuckle fighters from the 18th century - 21st century. Biographies, records, champions, legends, histories, rules and analysis of the world of bare-knuckle boxing. Serves as an excellent reference source.

GYPSY JOE

Author : Joe Smith
Publisher : eBook Partnership
ISBN 13 : 1909270628
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book GYPSY JOE written by Joe Smith and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2012-10-21 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gypsy Joe is not only a story of redemption, but an uplifting account of a young gypsy determined to realize his dream. Joe Smith tells of his formative years travelling the country in a caravan and how he encountered crushing prejudice when his extraordinary talents as a golf boy prodigy became apparent.Disillusioned, he recounts a downward spiral and a life of criminality before pulling back from the brink and making the most of his life.The Observer selected the book as their Sports Book of the Year 2009 saying: "e;One of the best golf books written this year; although the cheque books come out for the scandal, this true story of thwarted ambition, criminality, violence and redemption has substance. A courageous story shot through with intelligence and humanity."e;"e;What comes across in this book is family loyalty, raw courage and violence but there is also intelligence and humanity."e;Chris Blackhurst -- Evening Standard, 23 June 2009

Wayne Barker: Born to Fight

Author : Bernard O'Mahoney
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1780577206
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Wayne Barker: Born to Fight written by Bernard O'Mahoney and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Salford to St Louis, former professional boxer Wayne Barker fought every man who ever challenged him. In this brutally honest account of his eventful life, Wayne recounts how his parents left him in the care of the travelling community, where he learned to fight and journeyed throughout Britain and Ireland to take on opponents for cash. After being charged with attempting to murder a child killer, Wayne fled to America, where he found work in the gymnasiums of New York sparring with the likes of world champion Wilfred Benítez. His ability in the ring was noticed by promoter Bobby Gleason, whose gym had been graced by legendary boxers such as Jake LaMotta. Gleason set up a fight in Caracas between Wayne and former super middleweight world champion Fulgencio Obelmejias ('Fully Obel'). Wayne’s past eventually caught up with him and he was deported to Britain, where he served time in prison. He returned to the streets to earn a living from bare-knuckle fighting, before becoming a trainer and running a gym. Cancer claimed his life in 2012.

Bare Knuckle

Author : Stayton Bonner
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 0316433144
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book Bare Knuckle written by Stayton Bonner and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former Rolling Stone editor Stayton Bonner ventures inside America's secret illegal underground fight world - and meets its modern-day gladiators. Just when you think you've heard all the grizzled-fighter-taking-one-last-swing-at-redemption stories, along comes Bobby Gunn - the first bare-knuckle boxing champion in the U.S. in more than 120 years. Undefeated through 71 fights, Gunn, 42, rules the circuit, an underground network of pro boxers, mixed martial arts fighters and street brawlers who enter the ring without gloves in empty warehouses and mobster McMansions for as much as $50,000 a night. It's dangerous and bloody and illegal almost everywhere - a secret world run by organized crime. And for Gunn, a devout Christian journeyman boxer using the prize money to put his seven-year-old daughter through private school, it's his only shot at a better life. "Everybody wants to take me down, brother, and make a name for himself," he says. "I've gotta watch my back." Bare Knuckle is a fast-paced portrait of today's illegal underground bare-knuckle world - a Rocky story, only more bizarre, populated by street brawlers, mobsters, and a modern-day gladiator bent on upending America's first sport.

Knuckle

Author : James Quinn McDonagh
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007448279
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Knuckle written by James Quinn McDonagh and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irish travellers live in a closed community. What we think we know about them is based on hearsay, rumour and stereotype. But not any more.

Championship Streetfighting

Author : Ned Beaumont
Publisher : Paladin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873649346
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (493 download)

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Download or read book Championship Streetfighting written by Ned Beaumont and published by Paladin Press. This book was released on 1997-07-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your fists are your primary weapon system in a streetfight, but most martial arts "masters" like to gloss over that fact. Now fisticuffs expert Ned Beaumont shows you how to duke it out in back alleys and smoky bars and walk away grinning (with all your teeth). All the dirty tricks of boxing are included, too. Not for the faint of heart, this one is destined to become a classic.

Prizefighter - The Searing Autobiography of Britain's Bareknuckle Boxing Champion

Author : Decca Heggie
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786065479
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Prizefighter - The Searing Autobiography of Britain's Bareknuckle Boxing Champion written by Decca Heggie and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-08 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'You can get a couple of years for beating the shit out of another bloke, or a couple of grand. I chose to do the latter'. Decca's story is that of a bullied boy with an impossible dream. Of solvent abuse, violence, drug addiction, depression, boxing and bareknuckle fighting but - ultimately - redemption. It begins on a council estate in Carlisle where, as the victim, of cruel bullies, a young Decanaesthetised himself from the pain and humiliation by sniffing solvents. In his mid-teens the fear fell away to be replaced by fury, as the bullies discovered to their cost. Memories of that frightened boy fuelled a rage that forged a fearsome street-fighter and future champion. Working on the doors attracted more trouble but further enhanced his growing reputation. At the age of nineteen, life was good until the love of his life left him. Depression set in and prevailed. For almost ten years, he fell prey to a rampant cocaine habit, which provoked his demons, making him unpredictable and dangerous to be around. Serious jail time seemed inevitable. Out of sheer desperation, his Dad arranged Decca's first unlicensed boxing match. He won and became instantly hooked. Having gotten fit, hungry, and off the drugs, he was lured into the bloody arena of bareknuckle fighting. Many brutal undefeated fights followed, as did two BKB heavyweight titles. A chance meeting with renowned boxing promoter Ricky English led to Decca's shot at the iconic 'Guv'nor' title. The rest, as they say, is history.

The Manly Art

Author : Elliott J. Gorn
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801462525
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book The Manly Art written by Elliott J. Gorn and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-02 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It didn't occur to me until fairly late in the work that I was writing a book about the beginnings of a national celebrity culture. By 1860, a few boxers had become heroes to working-class men, and big fights drew considerable newspaper coverage, most of it quite negative since the whole enterprise was illegal. But a generation later, toward the end of the century, the great John L. Sullivan of Boston had become the nation's first true sports celebrity, an American icon. The likes of poet Vachel Lindsay and novelist Theodore Dreiser lionized him—Dreiser called him 'a sort of prize fighting J. P. Morgan'—and Ernest Thompson Seton, founder of the Boy Scouts, noted approvingly that he never met a lad who would not rather be Sullivan than Leo Tolstoy."—from the Afterword to the Updated EditionElliott J. Gorn's The Manly Art tells the story of boxing's origins and the sport's place in American culture. When first published in 1986, the book helped shape the ways historians write about American sport and culture, expanding scholarly boundaries by exploring masculinity as an historical subject and by suggesting that social categories like gender, class, and ethnicity can be understood only in relation to each other.This updated edition of Gorn's highly influential history of the early prize rings features a new afterword, the author's meditation on the ways in which studies of sport, gender, and popular culture have changed in the quarter century since the book was first published. An up-to-date bibliography ensures that The Manly Art will remain a vital resource for a new generation.

The Fighter

Author : Craig Davidson
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1569474656
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (694 download)

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Download or read book The Fighter written by Craig Davidson and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Harris leads a sheltered life. The son of a wealthy southern Ontario winery owner, his suits and cars are paid for, his career in the family business assured. But after a vicious beating shakes his world, he descends into the realm of hardcore bodybuilders and boxing gyms, reveling in suffering and seeking to become a real man. Rob Tully, a working class teenager from upstate New York, is a born boxer. He trains with his father and uncle but struggles with the weight of their expectations. Their disparate paths lead to The Barn, an underground bare-knuckle fight venue where vicious and hopeless men brawl for cold hard cash.

The Manly Art

Author : Elliott J. Gorn
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801462533
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book The Manly Art written by Elliott J. Gorn and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elliott J. Gorn's The Manly Art tells the story of boxing's origins and the sport's place in American culture. When first published in 1986, the book helped shape the ways historians write about American sport and culture, expanding scholarly boundaries by exploring masculinity as an historical subject and by suggesting that social categories like gender, class, and ethnicity can be understood only in relation to each other. This updated edition of Gorn's highly influential history of the early prize rings features a new afterword, the author's meditation on the ways in which studies of sport, gender, and popular culture have changed in the quarter century since the book was first published. An up-to-date bibliography ensures that The Manly Art will remain a vital resource for a new generation.

Fighter's Alley

Author : Heather Duffy Stone
Publisher : Darby Creek ™
ISBN 13 : 1467740047
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (677 download)

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Download or read book Fighter's Alley written by Heather Duffy Stone and published by Darby Creek ™. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will's father is running for mayor. The competition is slim. So all Will has to do is keep from embarrassing his family during the election. Problem is, Will has been secretly boxing down at the Woodrat Club—just the sort of seedy place Will's dad wants to stomp out. After training with Eddie Tancredi, a mysterious ex-boxer, Will enters a high-stakes Woodrat tournament. He even has a shot at victory. But will his family conflict ruin his chances? If not, secrets from Eddie’s past might . . .

The International Boxing Hall of Fame's Basic Boxing Skills

Author : Floyd Patterson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1626368988
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book The International Boxing Hall of Fame's Basic Boxing Skills written by Floyd Patterson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-05-17 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For all boxers and fans, this step-by-step guide to successful boxing by a two-time World Heavyweight Champion will be educational and entertaining. Floyd Patterson set out to “pass along to you what I’ve learned, to unlock some of the secrets of the greatest sport in the world.” He succeeded, creating a classic that’s one of the most comprehensive boxing manuals ever written. Topics include rules, equipment, how to bandage your own hands, stance, bobbing and weaving, punching technique, offensive and defensive moves, strategy, and conditioning—all offered with stories from Patterson’s career. Plus, there is a full workout program. With a new introduction by International Boxing Hall of Fame member Bert Randolph Sugar, this tour de force is an excellent resource for trainers and boxers as well as a tribute to a great champion’s career. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Sports Publishing imprint, is proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in sports—books about baseball, pro football, college football, pro and college basketball, hockey, or soccer, we have a book about your sport or your team. In addition to books on popular team sports, we also publish books for a wide variety of athletes and sports enthusiasts, including books on running, cycling, horseback riding, swimming, tennis, martial arts, golf, camping, hiking, aviation, boating, and so much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.