Boxing books

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A punch is far more than just a punch. This book reveals a labyrinth of concealed knowledge that wil enable the...  Read More >>

A punch is far more than just a punch . . . a deeper look will reveal a labyrinth of concealed knowledge, an Aladdin's...  Read More >>

Evaluates Ali's import outside the ring as cultural icon, antiwar protestor, and narcissist.  Read More >>

Sport can offer catharsis in times of crisis, but not this time. Liston was a mob fighter with a criminal past,...  Read More >>

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Historian John Harding tells the absorbing and fascinating story of The Lonsdale belt's origins and development,...  Read More >>

An international encyclopedia of boxing which contains in-depth articles on topics related to the sport, from AIDS...  Read More >>

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This is a splendid oral history of a time between World War I and World War II when Jewish athletes were the dominant...  Read More >>

This personal journey through the intense world of professional boxing asks what forces men to pursue this most...  Read More >>

An exploration of the world of professional boxing, examining the subject from many angles: boxing as metaphor,...  Read More >>

Looks at the principles, promoters, and observers surrounding the 1974 Ali-Forman championship boxing match held...  Read More >>

Your fists are your primary weapon system in a streetfight, but most martial arts masters like to gloss over that...  Read More >>

Fink's inimitable style captures the grace, beauty, and paternal love that are the foundations of this brutal contact...  Read More >>

Muhammad Ali was the greatest boxer the world has ever seen, and the most charismatic athlete of all time. Mesmeric...  Read More >>

Fifteen previously unpublished boxing pieces written between 1952 and 1963.  Read More >>

In Sydney, Australia, in 1908 the talented black fighter Jack Johnson won the heavyweight championship of the world...  Read More >>

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""Mike Tyson is boxing's most beloved bad boy. With a history of street-gang violence, juvenile prison, sexual scandal,...  Read More >>

First published in the USA in 1995, a collection of the author's journalistic pieces on boxing covering the past...  Read More >>

NCAA boxing represented a brief, but colorful, chapter in the history of intercollegiate athletics, and it played...  Read More >>

Here is Jake LaMotta discussing his career as a hoodlum; Floyd Patterson on growing up in the ghetto; Gunboat Smith...  Read More >>

""Sugar Ray Robinson (1921--1989) was hailed as the finest boxer to ever enter a ring. Muhammad Ali once called...  Read More >>

John F. Gilbey exposes wrestling as a series of circus exhibitions and decries boxing as an unbalanced martial art,...  Read More >>