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Pub. Date
2019.
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History will remember the rivalry of Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali as one for the ages. A trilogy of extraordinary fights that transcended the world of sports and crossed into a sociocultural drama that divided the country. Joe Frazier was a much more complex figure than just his rivalry with Ali would suggest. In this riveting and nuanced portrayal, acclaimed sportswriter Mark Kram, Jr. unlinks Frazier from Ali and for the first time gives a full-bodied...
62) Campeón gabacho
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Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Así habla Liborio. De esa forma piensa. Él debe dejar México, esa tierra que no le ha ofrecido nada más que golpes y el instinto de sobrevivencia, tras un asesinato imprudencial. Cruza, como tantos otros, el Río Bravo para llegar "a la tierra prometida'. Y en un barrio indefinido de cualquier ciudad gringa, este mojado nos cuenta su historia.
63) Hands of stone
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
The legendary boxer Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.
64) Diggstown
Pub. Date
c2000, c1992
Description
Hustler Gabriel Caine, just out of prison, heads to Diggstown, a small town where boxing matches go down with no rules and high stakes, and tries to set up the town owner by arranging for ten Diggstown men to fight a retired contender in 24 hours.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
World champion boxer Lew Jenkins fought his whole life. As a child, he fought extreme poverty during the Great Depression, in his twenties, he fought as a professional boxer and became a world champion, and at the pinnacle of his boxing career, Jenkins fought in World War II and the Korean War.
“From Boxing Ring to Battlefield: The Life of War Hero Lew Jenkins” details for the first time this extraordinary story. Despite his talent for boxing,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Boxing's true Cinderella story: James J. Braddock, dubbed "Cinderella Man" by Damon Runyon, was a once promising light heavyweight for whom a string of losses and a broken right hand happened to coincide with the Great Crash of 1929. With one good hand, he was forced to labor on the docks of Hoboken. Only his manager still believed in him. The diminutive, loquacious Jew and the burly, quiet Irishman made one of boxing's oddest couples, but together...
71) Rocky anthology
Pub. Date
[2004?]
Description
Rocky II: Rocky, having sustained massive injuries in his win against heavyweight champion, Apollo Creed, announces his retirement. But he soon realizes he can't escape his true calling, and prepares for the fight of his life.
Rocky III: Rocky becomes world famous, scoring ten consecutive wins. But after suffering a humiliating defeat against Clubber Lang, he considers hanging up his gloves. With encouragement from his old nemesis, Apollo Creed,...
72) Rocky Balboa
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Rocky Balboa, a middle-aged boxer, decides to come out of retirement to face the new and younger heavyweight champion in an exhibition match.
74) Boxing
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Series
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
"A survey of the highlights and legendary athletes--such as Cuban Te©đfilo Stevenson--of the Olympic sport of boxing, which officially became a part of the modern Summer Games in 1904" -Provided by Publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
"For seven years and two months in the days that followed World War I, Jack Dempsey, with his swarthy brow, his fierce good looks, and his matchless dedication to the kill, was heavyweight champion of the world. He was the wild and raucous champion of the wild and raucous 1920s, when Al Capone ran free, jazzmen trumpeted a new night music, women smoked cigarettes in public, and people talked about free love but couldn't buy a legal drink." "A Flame...
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Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
From the bestselling author of Pistol and Namath, a vivid, revealing, and fast-paced biography of the great boxer Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini.
Frank Sinatra fawned over him. Warren Zevon wrote a tribute song. Sylvester Stallone produced his life story as a movie of the week. In the 1980s, Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini wasn't merely the lightweight champ. An adoring public considered him a national hero, the real Rocky.
But it all came apart on November...
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