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Circus: Dispatches from the World of Boxing
Published together for the first time, this anthology of essays on boxing covers the sport in all its forms and at its many levels. Written in bestselling author Katherine Dunn’s characteristic vernacular, these pieces range from portraits of legendary fighters such as Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran, Marvin Hagler, and Mike Tyson to the unsung stories of trainers, amateurs, promoters, cutmen, and a pair of pugilistic priests. Spanning 30 years and including all who make up the vibrant boxing world, this compilation—from one of the most original voices in American sports literature—finely elevates the sport and communicates its beauty, passion, and character.
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The Guarantor
by Jay Waitkus
It's been a while since I added any stories onto here. So here's a not too shabby short story about a boxing manager who promises his fighter that he'll win his next bout. What the manager does parallels his nonfiction counterparts in which to the extent that one may go in order to secure victory. It's only a few pages long, but it's worth the couple of minutes that it takes to read it.
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Life and battles of Yankee Sullivan (1854)
Life and battles of Yankee Sullivan: embracing full and accurate reports of his fights with Hammer Lane, Tom Secor, Harry Bell, Bob Caunt, Tom Hyer, John Morrisey ...
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The Lives and Battles of the Champions of England (1879)
By Edgar James
The Lives and Battles of the Champions of England: From the Year 1700 to the Present Time...
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View Countless Articles through the Sports Illustrated Vault
This is amazing!Check it out, you can easily refine your search.
SI Vault - Your Link to Sports History - Sports Illustrated
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Rocky Lives!
Boxing fans love the upset, seeing the underdog surprise the heavy favorite and take the fight to him, winning over the fans and—perhaps even more important—the judges. Sylvester Stallone mined that emotion through his long series of Rocky films.
Rocky is fiction, however. The men in Rocky Lives! are real. David E. Finger, a writer for top boxing website FightNews.com, presents chronologically seventy-five heavyweight boxing upsets of the 1990s. Some involve boxers still fighting today; others contain a cautionary tale of once-great boxers chasing one last payday. There are also the early-round disasters of wannabes and athletes who switched to boxing in midstream.
Perhaps the biggest upset of the decade occurred just forty-two days into it, as Buster Douglas drew inspiration from his recently deceased mother to deliver a monumental upset of Mike Tyson, the self-proclaimed—and, at the time, most agreed—"baddest man on the planet." HBO commentator Larry Merchant labeled it "the greatest upset in boxing history." Finger presents this fight and seventy-four others with amazing detail, looking back at the prefight hype and "common sense" perception, describing the fight preparation of each boxer, analyzing the fight itself, and discussing the aftermath. He explains why the upset was so upsetting, and describes the continued careers of both boxers.
From the Tyson-Douglas, Foreman-Moorer, and Lewis-McCall top-dollar fights to low-level curiosities like former New York Jet Mark Gastineau getting embarrassed or Eric "Butterbean" Esch taking to the ring, David Finger presents the best heavyweight upsets the 1990s have to offer. You’ll read about crooked promoters drugging opponents, a convicted felon hoping victory in the ring will win him leniency, and a forty-five-year-old preacher looking to exorcise a two-decade-old demon. Rocky Lives! brings all the knockouts and slugfests right into your home.
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Find Images from LIFE Magazine
On google images, you can enter "source:life" in your query to find images from Life Magazine. Life magazine has fantastic photography capturing exciting scenes from fights as well as the times when the fighters are relaxing away from boxing. I love it!
Scaled-down image taken from LIFE
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For fight fans here who love reading graphic novels, I have a treat for you.
The Original Johnson
In an interesting union between boxing and comics brings to us a beautifully rendered and compelling story about the legendary boxer, Jack Johnson, which is aptly called The Original Jack Johnson.
I'm a couple of issues into it, and so far it has been fun and engaging to read (as well as to look at). Anyone who's familiar with the Jack Johnson will find a lot of things that they won't agree with, but nonetheless it's an unique and interesting portrayal of the legend brought out on a different medium.
By the way, I should have mentioned this in the beginning, you can read this online for FREE!
Take a look at it here: The Original Johnson Comic Issues at ComicMix
Enjoy.
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Boxing for beginners: with chapter showing its relationship to bayonet fighting
By William J. Jacomb
I posted the bayonet chapter before, but I found the complete book on books.google.com. You'll find that the quality of the pictures are much better in this copy.
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I thought that I posted these before, but I guess that I forgot to.
Fistiania: The Oracle of the Ring (1841)
by Vincent George Dowling
COMPRISING A DEFENCE OF BRITISH BOXING; A BRIEF HISTORY OF PUGILISM, FROM THE EARLIEST AGES TO THE PRESENT PERIOD; PRACTICAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR TRAINING; TOGETHER WITH CHRONOLOGICAL TABLES OF PRIZE BATTLES, FROM 1780 TO 1840 INCLUSIVE, ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED WITH THE ISSUE OF EACH EVENT.
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The American Fistiana
by H. Johnson, 1849
Containing a history of prize fighting in the United States, with all the principal battles for the last forty years, and a full and precise account of all the particulars of the great $10,000 match between Sullivan and Hyer, with their method of training for the fight
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Is there a way to get "Rocky Marciano's Book of Boxing & Bodybuilding" (Prentice-Hall Pub. - 1957) on "E-Book"?
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Hey Bill, what you see is what I got.
The only way that Marciano book is going to become an ebook is that someone's going to have to get their hands on that book and then scan it. There's currently a collector on the cyberboxingzone that has it and is charging $75 for the book.
In case you're interested here are some of Rocky's boxing tips:
Rocky Marciano's thoughts on boxing
1. The left jab
• It keeps an adversary off balance and sets him up for such power punches as the right cross and left hook.
2. The right cross
• Requires perfect timing and coordination
• Gauge your distance correctly
• The three "S's" of a correct hand [technique]: straight, snappy, short
3. The left hook
a. A short, fast hook is best
b. Starts from the feet up
• Pivoting on ball of left foot
• Turn your body toward the right
• Push your hips up
• Snap shoulder into punch
• Left knee goes inside toward right knee, and the left heel goes outward
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STRAIGHT HITTING GETS BOXERS PLUMS
Champion Joe Gans Tells Why He Has Lasted So Long in the Prize Ring, and talks about other fighter's styles.
View Here: STRAIGHT HITTING GETS BOXERS PLUMS; Champion Joe Gans Tells Why He Has... - Article Preview - The New York Times
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George Bernard Shaw's Letters to Gene Tunney
View here: The Sydney Morning Herald. - Google News Archive Search
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The Sweet Science (Audio book)
by A.J. Liebling
A.J. Liebling's classic New Yorker pieces on the "sweet science of bruising" bring vividly to life the boxing world as it once was. It depicts the great events of boxing's American heyday: Sugar Ray Robinson's dramatic comeback, Rocky Marciano's rise to prominence, Joe Louis's unfortunate decline. Liebling never fails to find the human story behind the fight, and he evokes the atmosphere in the arena as distinctly as he does the goings-on in the ring--a combination that prompted Sports Illustrated to name The Sweet Science the best American sports book of all time.
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