A provocative and revealing look at the scandals and corruption behind the Sweet Science’s greatest fights.Controversy is the one constant running throughout modern boxing’s history since its inception in England during the seventeen...Loe edasi...
A provocative and revealing look at the scandals and corruption behind the Sweet Science’s greatest fights.Controversy is the one constant running throughout modern boxing’s history since its inception in England during the seventeen...Loe edasi...
Boxing and the Mob explores the heavy influence of the mob on boxing in the 1930s through the early 1960s. It profiles boxers such as Abe Attell and Sonny Liston and infamous mobsters including Owney Madd...Loe edasi...
When boxing took hold in Madison Square Garden just after the First World War, a new wave of criminals moved in: the Mob. This book tells the story of those times and that place, of Rat Pack cool and the fading of the Mobs peculiar glamour....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Sep-2009, Hardback, Kirjastus: Yellow Jersey Press, ISBN-13: 9780224075107)
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Gangsters have been around boxing for ever, but 1950s New York was special. Most of the decades major fights took place in the city, at boxings spiritual home, Madison Square Garden. This book tells the story of those times and that place....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jul-2008, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Arkansas Press, ISBN-13: 9781557288882)
Battling Siki (1887–1925) was once one of the four or five most recognizable black men in the world and was written about by a host of great writers, including George Bernard Shaw, Ring Lardner, Damon Runyon, Janet Flanner, and Ernest Hemingway....Loe edasi...
A behind-the-scenes look at some of professional boxings most notorious fights describes the events surrounding several fixed or scandal-ridden matches, from Primo Carneras tragic manipulation by mobsters to Mike Tysons infamous ear-bite during hi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-May-2006, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Arkansas Press, ISBN-13: 9781557288165)
Battling Siki was once one of the four or five most recognizable black men in the world, and was written about in detail by such figures as Ring Lardner and his son John, Damon Runyon, and Westbrook Pegler. On the evening of December 15, 1925, at th...Loe edasi...
A scheming, down-on-his-luck sports promoter, Bobby the Lip tries to come up with a big score by arranging--and fixing--a bout between the reigning heavyweight boxing champ and a young African-American contender, only to find himself caught in a web...Loe edasi...
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The story of Lennox Lewis unswerving dedication to become undisputed heavyweight champion of the world in 1999. Earlier in the year, he had survived one of the most outrageous decisions in boxing history, the awarding of a draw in his fight with Ev...Loe edasi...
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Lennox Lewis finally won it all in Las Vegas on 13 November 1999. He was crowned undisputed heavyweight champion of the world, becoming the first Briton in the twentieth century to land the richest prize in sport. But Lewis, 1999s BBC Sports Persona...Loe edasi...
