Product Description: Theodore 'Tiger' Flowers rose above racist bigotry of the Deep South to become the first African-American middleweight champion of the world. To do this, this Christian family man beat a boxing legend, Harry Greb, in the first of the great sporting cathedrals, Madison Square Garden...read more

Product Description: Three months after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, prizefighters Charles “Sonny” Liston and Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. stepped into a boxing ring in Miami to dispute the heavyweight championship of the world. Liston was a mob fighter with a criminal past, and rumors were spreading that Clay was not just a noisy, bright-eyed boy blessed with more than his share of the craziness of youth, but a believer in a shadowy cult: the Nation of Islam...read more

Product Description: Boxing has produced some of the world's most exciting and colorful athletes, from Jack Johnson and Jake LaMotta to Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson. They're all in this ultimate guide, the most comprehensive single-volume illustrated boxing reference available, now fully revised and updated to include every major world title fight up to March 2013, plus biographies of modern great champions and reports on outstanding recent fights...read more

Provides an illustrated history of bare-knuckle prize-fighting, from its origins, to its heydey in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to the development of the Marquess of Queensbury Rules that saw the end of the sport, and profiles some of its great champions and fans. Reprint.

Product Description: Heavyweight boxers have always had a special appeal. From the last great bare-knuckle champion, John L. Sullivan, to the modern giants such as Tyson and Lewis, this is the definitive history of the heavyweight fighter. Dozens of books have been written about the champions, but this is the first time the doings, and sometimes undoings, of the main men of the heavyweight division—champions, challengers, and pretenders alike—have been placed side by side in one book...read more

Provides an illustrated history of bare-knuckle prize-fighting, from its origins, to its heydey in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to the development of the Marquess of Queensbury Rules that saw the end of the sport, and profiles some of its great champions and fans. 10,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Chronicles the history of boxing from the eighteenth century to the present day through the careers, characters, and charisma of such figures as Rocky Marciano, Joe Dempsey, Evander Holyfield, and Oscar De La Hoya. (view table of contents)

A lavishly illustrated celebration of the sport of boxing furnishes profiles of some 250 of the greatest boxers of all time and fifty of the most celebrated fights, capturing the passion, intensity, and gritty romance of the sport.