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Publisher
Blink
Pub. Date
2017
Description
March 2016: boxer Chris Eubank Jr punches his opponent, Nick Blackwell, into a coma. Blackwell dies momentarily, before being brought back to life. He remains in a coma for 7 days. The boxing world is thrown into turmoil. Elliot Worsell was ringside, reporting as part of Blackwell's camp with exclusive access to both dressing rooms. A lifelong boxing fan and experienced journalist, what Worsell saw left him questioning himself and his sport. Blackwell...
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Publisher
Pitch Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
John Wight delves into the world of beautiful brutality, visiting gyms on both sides of the Atlantic. Through Wight's compelling memoirs we encounter the likes of Freddie Roach, Manny Pacquiao, James Toney and Josh Taylor. Boxing operates on a different moral and spiritual plane than other sports. The Boxing Game explores why and how.
Author
Publisher
Pitch Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2016
Description
Drawing upon a wealth of sources - interviews and reminiscences, boxing-board minutes and programmes, contemporary magazines and newspapers, even archive film, sports historian John Harding tells the absorbing and fascinating story of the belt's origins and development and how the system the belt represents has continued to provide an unambiguous measure of excellence in the chaotic and often murky world of British professional boxing.
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A Manchester lad from Irish Traveller stock, born three months premature and weighing just a pound at birth, Tyson (named after his father's boxing hero) grew up to become one of the most unlikely heavyweight champions in history. This 'dream come true' soon turned to nightmare, however, as alcohol and cocaine abuse took hold and Tyson was stripped of his titles. What followed was the darkest moment of his life - detailed in this book for the first...
Author
Publisher
Queen Anne
Pub. Date
2005
Description
Combining information about all those involved in boxing in Britain, this yearbook is a record of British and international boxing throughout the year. It also offers specially commisioned features and the results of the editor's extensive research into the early days of the professional sport.
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Publisher
Bantam Press
Pub. Date
2017
Description
Boxing is Steve Bunce's game. He has filed thousands and thousands of fight reports from ringside. He has written millions and millions of words for national newspapers previewing boxing, profiling boxers and proselytising on the business. He has been the voice of British boxing on the airwaves, both radio and television, with an army of loyal fans. And now it's time to put those many years of experience into penning his history of the sport of kings...
10) Close encounters with the gloves off: boxing's greats recall the inside stories of their big fights
Author
Publisher
Pitch Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2016
Description
Boxers recall their highs and lows, their greatest triumphs, the background stories, and many shock revelations of their careers in this exciting collection. Acclaimed boxing writer, author, and historian Thomas Myler has interviewed every one of the pugilistic greats featured, during a career spent covering boxing; from the big names of the Roaring 1920s right through to boxing's modern era.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019
Description
At the height of the Troubles, Gerry Storey ran the Holy Family gym from the IRA's heartland territory of New Lodge in Belfast. Despite coming from a family steeped in the Republican movement, he insisted that it would be open to all. He ensured that his boxers were given a free pass by paramilitary forces on both Republican and Loyalist sides, so they could find a way out of the province's desperate situation. In the immediate aftermath of the 1981...
13) Twenty and out
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Publisher
CollinsWillow
Pub. Date
1999
Description
Mickey Duff talks candidly about his career, and about how he and his partner Jarvis Astaire formed their exclusive broadcasting alliance with the BBC.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Chris Eubank, with his jodhpurs and gold-topped cane, who lisped in his posh accent about his distaste for the business of 'pugilism', could not have been more different from Nigel Benn, 'The Dark Destroyer', the Essex boy who had battled with his demons to reach the top of the boxing world. Their boxing style was just as contrasting, and it was inevitable that they would have to settle their differences in the ring. Their first bout for the WBO world...
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Publisher
Pitch Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2016
Description
'Mooresy - The Fighter's Fighter' is the life story of one of Britain's most-loved boxers. Not always an angelic teen and a product of the 'Salford Overspill', Jamie Moore was sucked into the slipstream of the thrill which came with car theft. At 15, his luck ran out after a helicopter police chase. Boxing turned out to be his saviour. Progressing through the amateur ranks, he turned pro in 1999 aged 20 and went on to become British, Irish, Commonwealth...
16) The fight
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2000
Description
This is the story of the world heavyweight championship fight between George Foreman and Muhammed Ali in 1975. As the weeks to the fight ticked away, Ali's preparation was sluggish and his attitude fatalistic, in contrast to the confident Foreman.
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Publisher
JR
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Muhammad Ali and Sugar Ray Leonard are two of the greatest boxers in history, both trained and managed by the legendary Dundee. From early meetings and first impressions to the big fights, this is a fascinating look inside boxing and the making of history.
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Publisher
Headline
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Ricky Hatton's brilliance as a boxer, his down-to-earth demeanour and his live-wire sense of humour have made him a national treasure. Five of Ricky's biggest and most explosive fights took place in the boxing mecca of Las Vegas. Tens of thousands of British fans followed him there each time to watch these monumental bouts, and to soak up the unique atmosphere in Sin City. After the fights, the fans - and Ricky too, for that matter - liked to avail...
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Pub. Date
2023
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Khan looks back on his exhilarating boxing career that spanned 27 years from his first fight to his last. A role model for his Pakistani heritage, his Bolton upbringing and the best of British sport, Khan also reveals for the first time the full story of his life outside of the ring. Told with his trademark warmth, humour and honesty, Khan relives his highs and lows. He shares never-before-told stories about his greatest fights and rivalries. He reflects...
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Publisher
Pitch
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Alex Daley explores the lives of seven former professional boxers who fought in the capital between the 1930s and 1960s. Set around a series of interviews with the fighters, he resurrects a golden age when boxing was as popular as football in Britain and our leading fighters were working-class heroes.