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Boxing's Hall of Shame

Author : Thomas Myler
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1845969634
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (459 download)

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Download or read book Boxing's Hall of Shame written by Thomas Myler and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-03-11 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Boxing's Hall of Shame, Thomas Myler tells the inside stories of the real fight game. He reveals the sport's heroes and villains, mobsters and fixers, its shame and sorrows, providing the reader with a ringside seat at boxing's greatest and most controversial contests along the way. This no-holds-barred volume includes the enraged Mike Tyson taking a chunk out of Evander Holyfield's ear; Roberto Duran's baffling retirement against Sugar Ray Leonard; the Riddick Bowe-Andrew Golota fiasco that ended in an ugly full-scale riot; Sonny Liston - whose mobster background was not unknown to boxing authorities - going down under Muhammad Ali's phantom punch; and Jake LaMotta's botched dive against Billy Fox, which turned the 'Raging Bull' into boxing's bad boy overnight. Boxing's Hall of Shame sensationally revisits the boxing scandals, the fixed fights and the powerful influence of the underworld, taking the reader behind the scenes of the glove sport to reveal the shady underbelly of boxing through the ages.

The Sports Hall of Shame

Author : Bruce M. Nash
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sports Hall of Shame written by Bruce M. Nash and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An encyclopedia of sports blunders from amateurs to the pros. A tribute to the wackiest moments in sports including fiascoes, goof-ups and bubble-headed plays.

The Legality of Boxing

Author : Jack Anderson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134087268
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book The Legality of Boxing written by Jack Anderson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-04-26 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book of its kind dedicated to an assessment of the legality of boxing, The Legality of Boxing: A Punch Drunk Love? assesses the legal response to prize fighting and undertakes a current analysis of the status of boxing in both criminal legal theory and practice. In this book, Anderson exposes boxing’s 'exemption' from contemporary legal and social norms. Reviewing all aspects of boxing - historical, legal, moral, ethical, philosophical, medical, racial and regulatory - he concludes that the supposition that boxing has a (consensual) immunity from the ordinary law of violence, based primarily on its social utility as a recognised sport, is not as robust as is usually assumed. It: suggests that the sport is extremely vulnerable to prosecution and might in fact already be illegal under English criminal law outlines the physical and financial exploitation suffered by individual boxers both inside and outside the ring, suggesting that standard boxing contracts are coercive thus illegal and that boxers do not give adequate levels of informed consent to participate advocates a number of fundamental reforms, including possibly that the sport will have to consider banning blows to the head proposes the creation of a national boxing commission in the US and a similar entity in the United Kingdom, which together would attempt to restore the credibility of a sport long know as the red-light district of sports administration. An excellent book, it is a must read for all those studying sports law, popular culture and the law and jurisprudence.

The Beginning of Boxing in Britain, 1300-1700

Author : Arly Allen
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476681155
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Beginning of Boxing in Britain, 1300-1700 written by Arly Allen and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many books have discussed boxing in the ancient world, but this is the first to describe how boxing was reborn in the modern world. Modern boxing began in the Middle Ages in England as a criminal activity. It then became a sport supported by the kings and aristocracy. Later it was again outlawed and only in the 20th century has it become a sport popular around the world. This book describes how modern boxing began in England as an outgrowth of the native English sense of fair play. It demonstrates that boxing was the common man's alternative to the sword duel of honor, and argues that boxing and fair play helped Englishmen avoid the revolutions common to France, Italy and Germany during the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. English enthusiasm for boxing largely drove out the pistol and sword duels from English society. And although boxing remains a brutal sport, it has made England one of the safest countries in the world. It also examines how the rituals of boxing developed: the meaning of the parade to the ring; the meaning of the ring itself; why only two men fight at one time; why the fighters shake hands before each fight; why a boxing match is called a prizefight; and why a knock-down does not end the bout. Its sources include material from medieval manuscripts, and its notes and bibliography are extensive.

Nice Work

Author : Jana Wendt
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780522859584
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (595 download)

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Download or read book Nice Work written by Jana Wendt and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We spend forty hours, on average, each week in a place that is not our home, in the company of strangers. Odd then, that the details of what we do all that time often remain unknown, even to those closest to us." Jana Wendt, one of Australia's most experienced journalists, sets out to discover what drives us in the work we do. She follows a compelling group of people, from a boxer set for a comeback to a maverick priest, and a CEO whose company is mired in scandal to a forensic anthropologist investigating murder. Wendt witnesses the successes and frustrations, the body-blows and moments of joy experienced by people who consider what they do as the great passion of their lives. The result is a wonderfully observed and entertaining portrait of modern work.

Boxing Is . . .

Author : Thomas Hauser
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 1610754891
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Boxing Is . . . written by Thomas Hauser and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Hauser has become “must reading” in the boxing community, and his latest book demonstrates why. Boxing Is . . . brings together all of Hauser’s 2009 articles. In them, Hauser illuminates the behind-the-scenes stories of the year’s most memorable personalities and events. He takes us from Manny Pacquiao’s dressing room in the tense moments before 2009’s biggest fight to an in-depth portrait of the incomparable Sugar Ray Robinson, all the while continuing to show why his annual collections, avidly anticipated by fans and critics alike, have become, according to columnist Bart Barry, “an essential part of boxing’s official record and the chronicles of this era most likely to endure.”

The British National Bibliography

Author : Arthur James Wells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1884 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The British National Bibliography written by Arthur James Wells and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 1884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Criminology of Boxing, Violence and Desistance

Author : Deborah Jump
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1529203295
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (292 download)

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Download or read book The Criminology of Boxing, Violence and Desistance written by Deborah Jump and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2021-04-07 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This perceptive study explores the extent to which boxing has the potential to reduce violent attitudes among young offenders. Jump assesses conflicting evidence and presents in-depth case studies of fighters to ask whether boxing’s values of discipline and respect can create a support network that helps young men refrain from reoffending.

The New York Public Library Desk Reference

Author : New York Public Library
Publisher : MacMillan Reference Library
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 912 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The New York Public Library Desk Reference written by New York Public Library and published by MacMillan Reference Library. This book was released on 1989 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Stonesong Press book." This collection of the most frequently sought information is organized into 26 subject areas. Includes events, discoveries, people, facts, dates, terms, etc.

National Lampoon

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 984 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book National Lampoon written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 984 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Boxing

Author : Kasia Boddy
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1861897022
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Boxing written by Kasia Boddy and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, potters, sculptors, painters, poets, novelists, cartoonists, song-writers, photographers, and filmmakers have recorded and tried to make sense of boxing. From Daniel Mendoza to Mike Tyson, boxers have embodied and enacted our anxieties about race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. In her encyclopedic investigation of the shifting social, political, and cultural resonances of this most visceral of sports, Kasia Boddy throws new light on an elemental struggle for dominance whose weapons are nothing more than fists. Looking afresh at everything from neoclassical sculpture to hip-hop lyrics, Boddy explores the ways in which the history of boxing has intersected with the history of mass media. Boddy pulls no punches, looking to the work of such diverse figures as Henry Fielding and Spike Lee, Charlie Chaplin and Philip Roth, James Joyce and Mae West, Bertolt Brecht and Charles Dickens in an all-encompassing study that tells us just how and why boxing has mattered so much to so many.

Jimmy Sharman's Boxers

Author : Stephen McGrath
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 192289687X
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (228 download)

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Download or read book Jimmy Sharman's Boxers written by Stephen McGrath and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-10-04 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jimmy Sharman is a conundrum. Raised in a large poor catholic family, becoming a tent boxer at age eleven. He blinds another boxer and is racked by guilt for the rest of his life yet develops an extremely profitable and popular showground fixture. We learn about Sharman’s boxing tent spruiking, his unconventional business habits, his furious temper, his leadership and diplomacy. Sharman was twenty seven and medically fit when the war started. We learn the real life stories of several indigenous boxers who were openly defiant against the intense racism they encountered. We meet clumsy Billy Grimes (the flat foot kid) who went on to win several Australian titles. We see an unlikely friendship develop between Rud Kee a Chinese boxer and Sharman. As losses at Gallipoli and the Western Front grow, townspeople begin to question why a troupe of young men is fighting for profit while others are dying. Soon there are few men left, Sharman struggles to find challengers, recruitment propaganda and white feather campaigns intensify. The conscription plebiscites’ bitterly divide Australia. Then great personal tragedy visits Archie and the troupe. This story is the result of a remarkable new discovery in Australian history, a true story about how Jimmy Sharman navigated his Boxing Troupe throughout the First World War despite; the war fervour, the conscription debate, pressure to enlist, accusations of cowardice and the tragic loss of so many to the war itself. Based on extensive research of real people and real events, this story tells how Jimmy Sharman managed to continue to tour throughout the war and created an unbeatable boxing troupe of White, Chinese and indigenous boxers, training them to be the most famous of all the Australian Travelling Boxing Troupes. This is an incredible, true and uniquely Australian story, it is beautifully told, giving us deep insight into the struggles of extraordinary people in extraordinary times. "Stephen McGrath's tireless research underpins this reanimation of a key chapter in Australia's social, cultural and sporting history. Much can be learned from revisiting the rollicking days of Jimmy Sharman's troupe, traversing geographic, racial and social frontiers.’ Micheal Winkler, Author of “Grimmish”, short listed for the Miles Franklin Literary Award in 2022.

Boxing in America

Author : David L. Hudson Jr.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Boxing in America written by David L. Hudson Jr. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-06-21 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a sweeping view of boxing in the United States and the influence of the sport on American culture. Boxing has long been a popular fixture of American sport and culture, despite its decidedly seedy side (the fact that numerous boxing champions acquired their skills in prison or reform schools, the corruption and greed of certain boxing promoters, and the involvement of the mob in fixing the outcome of many big fights). Yet boxing remains an iconic and widely popular spectator sport, even in light of its decline as a result of the recent burgeoning interest in mixed martial arts (MMA) contests. What had made this sport so enthralling to our nation for such a long period of time? This book contains much more than simple documentation of the significant dates, people, and bouts in the history of American boxing. It reveals why boxing became one of America's leading spectator sports at the turn of the century and examines the factors that have swayed the public's perception of it, thereby affecting its popularity. In Boxing in America, the author provides a compelling view of not only the pugilist sport, but also of our country, our sources of entertainment, and ourselves.

Quackery

Author : Lydia Kang
Publisher : Workman Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1523501855
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (235 download)

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Download or read book Quackery written by Lydia Kang and published by Workman Publishing Company. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What won’t we try in our quest for perfect health, beauty, and the fountain of youth? Well, just imagine a time when doctors prescribed morphine for crying infants. When liquefied gold was touted as immortality in a glass. And when strychnine—yes, that strychnine, the one used in rat poison—was dosed like Viagra. Looking back with fascination, horror, and not a little dash of dark, knowing humor, Quackery recounts the lively, at times unbelievable, history of medical misfires and malpractices. Ranging from the merely weird to the outright dangerous, here are dozens of outlandish, morbidly hilarious “treatments”—conceived by doctors and scientists, by spiritualists and snake oil salesmen (yes, they literally tried to sell snake oil)—that were predicated on a range of cluelessness, trial and error, and straight-up scams. With vintage illustrations, photographs, and advertisements throughout, Quackery seamlessly combines macabre humor with science and storytelling to reveal an important and disturbing side of the ever-evolving field of medicine.

Combat Sports

Author : David L. Hudson Jr.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313343845
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Combat Sports written by David L. Hudson Jr. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-05-13 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fistic combat represents the greatest human drama in all of sport. Roman gladiators thrilled citizens and emperors alike when they entered the octagon to face an intense, life-threatening experience. Boxing, the sport of kings, also has its roots in the ancient civilizations of Greece and Rome. Banned in 500 A.D. by the Emperor Theodoric, it resurfaced twelve centuries later in England. John Milton praised it as a noble art for building character in young men, and sports writer A.J. Leibling dubbed it the Sweet Science. Many of its major protagonists - men such as Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano and Muhammad Ali - have become transcendent, near-mythic heroes. But boxing is not the only combat sport, and mixed martial arts, in all their ferocious beauty, represent the fastest growing sports genre in the world. Ultimate Fighting Championships (UFC) has joined boxing in paying seven figures to some of its champions, and draws millions in its pay-per-view events. This book details leading figures in boxing, sumo wrestling, kickboxing, Greco-Roman wrestling, and mixed martial arts (including organizations such as Ultimate Fighting, PRIDE, K-1, Total Combat, and SportFighting). Over 150 entries cover champions, contenders, and other famous combatants from all over the world, as well as legendary promoters, managers, trainers, and events. Also included in this encyclopedia are sidebars on controversies, highlights, brief bios, and other noteworthy events, along with a general timeline. .

Howard Cosell: The Man, the Myth, and the Transformation of American Sports

Author : Mark Ribowsky
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039308017X
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Howard Cosell: The Man, the Myth, and the Transformation of American Sports written by Mark Ribowsky and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the life of one of the most colorful figures in American sports history and offers a behind-the-scenes look at "Monday Night Football" and the commercialization of sports based on interviews with colleagues and athletes.

The Life and Crimes of Don King

Author : Jack Newfield
Publisher : UNET 2 Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0974020109
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Life and Crimes of Don King written by Jack Newfield and published by UNET 2 Corporation. This book was released on 2003 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new, updated edition of Jack Newfield's hard-hitting unauthorized biography of boxing kingpin Don King, source of the Emmy-winning film starring Ving Rhames. With a new epilogue. Working his way out of a life of street crime and numbers running - and jail time for manslaughter - King rose to become a powerhouse in the fight game, outnegotiated corporate giants, fleeced the treasuries of entire countries, and amassed a vast personal fortune while ruining the lives and careers of some of boxing's greatest champions. The dying words of the man King stomped to death on the streets of Cleveland in 1966 - Don, I'll pay you the money! - became the motif for Don King's ascendancy.