Product Description: Boxing was popular in the American West long before Las Vegas became its epicenter. However, not everyone in the region was a fan. Counterpunch examines how the sport's meteoric rise in popularity in the West ran concurrently with a growing backlash among Progressive Era social reformers who saw boxing as barbaric...read more

Product Description: The infamous boxing match between Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield on June 28, 1997, was like none other in the sport’s history, and this insightful account of the anticipation, the gruesome fight itself, and the ongoing aftermath of that one night reveals just how much of an impact it really made...read more

Product Description: This book presents a sweeping view of boxing in the United States and the influence of the sport on American culture.• Includes information from the early "bare knuckles" era of boxing up to modern-day stars and matchups, presenting the history of boxing in a chronological fashio...read more

Uses interviews with Jewish boxers of the 1920s and 1930s to present a study of prize-winning Jewish athletes and their contribution to boxing in the first half of the twentieth century

Their names are legendary: Sugar Ray Leonard, Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Thomas Hit Man Hearns, and Roberto Duran. They were exceptional boxers with unique combinations of power and speed. In another era, with few rivals of equal caliber, each might have held championship belts for years on end. But as it was, they matured together in the 1980s and fought each other as middleweights. With unforgettable courage and skill, they ruled the ring and ushered in the last Golden Age of boxing.George Kimball takes an authoritative look at the rivalries that fueled this great era in sports history. Veteran sports journalist Kimball reported on every one of the Four Kings’ nine internecine fights. Here his eye-witness coverage is enhanced by recent interviews with each of the boxers and other seasoned analysts. The result is a fast-paced, blow-by-blow account of four extraordinary adversaries and a remarkable boxing epoch.

Product Description: This work brings a fresh perspective to the history of modern prizefighting, a sport which has evolved over several centuries to become one of mankind's most lasting and valued sporting attractions. With his primary focus outside the ropes, the author shows how organizers, publicity agents, and political allies overcame both legal and moral roadblocks to make fisticuffing a lively commercial enterprise...read more

In the 1950s, Arcel ran independent television fights from various cities across the USA, upsetting the monopolistic International Boxing Club run by millionaire Jim Norris with the backroom assistance of mobster Frankie Carbo, a one-time gunman for Murder Inc. He came back in the 1970s to train Duran. He last worked the corner in 1982.

Product Description: Las Vegas is a city where fortunes are won and lost on the roll of the dice, a 24-hour-a-day, neon-lit wonderland. Stars roam the Strip and decadence is always available at a price, but never are the stakes higher in Las Vegas than inside the ring...read more

Chronicles the remarkable sporting accomplishments of 1941, on the eve of America's entrance into World War II, including the slugging competition between baseball superstars Joe DiMaggio and Ted Williams, the rivalry between Joe Louis and Billy Conn for boxing's heavyweight championship, and Whirlaway, the thoroughbred that captured horse racing's Triple Crown. 35,000 first printing.

Articles from the fifties recreate the atmosphere of past fights and trace the rise of great fighters like Rocky Marciano

Product Description: 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...read more

''Detailed'--Press-Citizen (Iowa City). From his first match in the late 1870s through his final fight in 1905, this biography contains a thoroughly researched, detailed accounting of John L. Sullivan's boxing career. With special attention to the 1880s it follows Sullivan's skill development and discusses his opponents in detail, providing various viewpoints of a single event'--Provided by publisher.

A gritty memoir by the noted boxing trainer and television commentator details his odyssey from juvenile delinquent, to his education as a boxer under legendary trainer Gus D'Amato, to his relationship with Sammy 'The Bull' Gravano, to his encounters with celebrities and the high-stakes world of sports, to his dedication to such values as compassion, personal integrity, and determination.

One of the most colorful sportswriters and commentators of all time shares his insights into and memories of boxing, bringing his vast knowledge of the history of the sport to bear in this celebration of 'the sweet science.'

Product Description: Professional sports in America offer numerous examples of equal opportunity and broken down racial barriers. These developments call for pride and celebration. Yet skin color continues to have an influence in how Americans experience sport...read more

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Product Description: As former boxing correspondent for the New York Times, Phil Berger had accessto Tyson and his "handlers" as no other journalist. Berger regards Tyson as adangerously violent man who has as many people trying to get their hooks intohim as he has millions, and chronicles Tyson's career against the backdrop ofboxing and the powers behind the sport...read more

Selected articles from the Ring boxing magazine, trace the history of the sport from the 1920s to the present (view table of contents)