Boxing Legends & Champions

Boxing Legends & Champions

Author: Lea Worrall

Publisher: Lea Worrall

Published: 2023-08-22

Total Pages: 698

ISBN-13:

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Boxing Legends & Champions is a compilation of articles from The Boxing History Blog. The book starts with Floyd Patterson's intriguing heavyweight title defence against Pete Rademacher, who was making his professional debut and carries on through the years to the modern era. This book includes great fighters such as Muhammad Ali, Azumah Nelson, Jeff Fenech, Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield, Lennox Lewis and the late Pernell Whitaker, who was tragically killed in July 2019. It also chronicles the epic duels between Roberto Duran, Mavelous Marvin Hagler, 'Sugar' Ray Leonard, and Thomas 'Hit Man' Hearns, plus many, many more.


More Boxing Legends & Champions

More Boxing Legends & Champions

Author: Lea Worrall

Publisher: Lea Worrall

Published: 2023-08-22

Total Pages: 537

ISBN-13:

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More Boxing Legends & Champions is another compilation of articles from The Boxing History Blog. The book kicks off with Roberto Duran's first world title challenge against Scotland's Ken Buchanan in 1972. It was slugger versus classic boxer, with the rugged Panamanian using roughhouse tactics in a foul-littered contest. More Boxing Legends & Champions also includes in-depth profiles of Evander Holyfield, Nigel Benn, and Lennox Lewis, taking the reader back on a nostalgic journey through the history of boxing, depicting some of the most classic, controversial, and tragic encounters...


Workouts from Boxing's Greatest Champs

Workouts from Boxing's Greatest Champs

Author: Gary Todd

Publisher: John Blake Publishing Ltd

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781906015527

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Fed by media fascination with super heavyweights like George Foreman, the perception of boxers as oversized guys with oversized muscles is simply wrong. For every weight class, strength must be carefully balanced with the ideal physique. In truth, boxer training produces a body perfectly balanced for strength, shape, speed, and stamina. The author traveled the world talking to top boxers about how they train for peak performance. Their workouts will help reshape the reader's body, and the short bios and quotes from legendary favorites will inspire readers to take their workout to the next level. This one-of-a-kind approach to the world of boxing offers readers proven tips on balancing their own physique. Want to build more strength? Follow the workout of heavyweights like Ali. Need to slim down but don't want to lose muscle? Try the program of middleweight Fernando Vargas. Want to go all out for the ultimate physical fitness? Then try to keep up with the training of pound-for-pound legend Roy Jones Jr.


How To Box

How To Box

Author: Joe Louis

Publisher:

Published: 2022-04-26

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781639232321

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Joe Louis's How to Box will teach you to deliver a knockout punch, step by step. The legendary heavyweight champion thoroughly covers all aspects of boxing in this well-written, definitive guide. Louis's sense of fair play, good sportsmanship, and dedicated training will both instruct and inspire. Beginning with mental discipline, Louis moves through basic training and equipment to stance, punching, and footwork, followed by working with a punching bag, methods of training, and learning various strategic punches. Generously illustrated with diagrams and action photos, here is everything needed to learn how to excel in the ring. One of the greatest boxers of all time, Joe Louis was in the ring before and during World War II. Some of his famous bouts became symbolic of the larger global conflict at hand; because of this he was the first Black American to be widely recognized as a national hero, playing a key role in the eventual integration of professional sports. Also included in this edition are listings of Louis's Heavyweight Title Defenses and championships in every weight class. How To Box concisely presents the best boxing techniques along with a slice of sporting history. Whether you are a sports fan, want a great workout, or plan to competitively enter the ring one day, this book by the man who famously said, "You can run, but you can't hide," is must reading.


Boxing Legends

Boxing Legends

Author: Greg Garber

Publisher: Friedman/Fairfax Pub

Published: 1994-01-01

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9781567991017

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An in-depth look at boxing's greatest champions and most memorable fights.


Boxing Greats

Boxing Greats

Author: Steve Bunce

Publisher: Seal Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780762404025

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Celebrates boxing's greatest fights and fighters.


The Legends of Bare-knuckle Boxing

The Legends of Bare-knuckle Boxing

Author: Patrick White

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2015-11-26

Total Pages: 102

ISBN-13: 9781519549396

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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.


Workouts from Boxing's Greatest Champs

Workouts from Boxing's Greatest Champs

Author: Gary Todd

Publisher: Bookpack Incorporated

Published: 2004-11

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781569754436

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The author traveled the world talking to top boxers, such as Muhammad Ali, about how they train for peak performance. This one-of-a-kind approach to the world of boxing offers readers proven tips on balancing their own physique.


No Ordinary Joe

No Ordinary Joe

Author: Joe Calzaghe

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 0099509350

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Boxer Joe Calzaghe talks about the long, sometimes trying journey from a child growing up in Newbridge, Wales, through becoming a youth boxing superstar, to the night when, by beating American Jeff Lacy, he reached the giddy heights that everyone had predicted.


Floyd Patterson

Floyd Patterson

Author: W. K. Stratton

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 0151014302

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This knockout biography follows boxing legend Floyd Patterson, civil rights activist, national icon, and the youngest man to win the World Heavyweight Champion title, and the first to ever win the title twice.