Title Fight

Author : Scott Sigler,Matt Wallace
Publisher : Empty Set Entertainment
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781939366993

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Title Fight by Scott Sigler,Matt Wallace Pdf

Undefeated galactic heavyweight champion Korak the Cutter has defeated all challengers, destroying everyone in his path, but the wins aren't as easy as they used to be. After a decade of perfect fighting, his age is catching up with him. For a Quyth Warrior, that means he's slowing down, and speed is the name of the game in mixed martial arts. At this late stage in his career, he faces a nightmare savage and unpredictable Chiyal "The Heretic" North. As crime lords and promoters try to fix the fight, and as managers cling to dreams of lost glory, Korak and Chiyal must find their way into the octagon to decide once and for all who is the greatest of all time. Co-written with Parsec Award-winning author Matt Wallace, TITLE FIGHT delivers a scifi/mma one-two knockout. This novella is part of the Galactic Football League series, which is described as THE BLIND SIDE meets THE GODFATHER meets STAR WARS.

Author : Paul Cleary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : 0369374177

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Title Fight by Paul Cleary Pdf

In the space of just fifteen years, Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest's Fortescue Metals Group has become a global iron-ore giant worth 70 billion dollars. But in its rush to develop, FMG has damaged and destroyed ancient Aboriginal heritage and brokered patently unfair agreements with the traditional owners of the land. When FMG has met resistance, it has used hard-nosed litigation in pursuit of favourable outcomes. This strategy came unstuck when FMG encountered several hundred Yindjibarndi people and their leader, Michael Woodley, who left school in Grade Six and was from then on immersed in his traditional culture. Woodley has led his community in an epic, thirteen-year battle against FMG, all on a shoestring budget.

Author : Matthew Bell,Gary Armstrong
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030635459

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A Social History of Sheffield Boxing, Volume I by Matthew Bell,Gary Armstrong Pdf

A Social History of Sheffield Boxing combines urban ethnography and anthropology, sociological theory and place and life histories to explore the global phenomenon of boxing. Raising many issues pertinent to the social sciences, such as contestations around state regulation of violence, commerce and broadcasting, pedagogy and elite sport and how sport is delivered and narrated to the masses, the book studies the history of boxing in Sheffield and the sport’s impact on the cultural, political and economic development of the city since the 18th century. Interweaving urban anthropology with sports studies and historical research the text expertly examines a variety of published sources, ranging from academic papers to biographies and from newspaper reports to case studies and contemporary interviews. In Volume I, Bell and Armstrong construct a vivid history of boxing and probe its cultural acceptance in the late 1800s, examining how its rise was inextricably intertwined with the industrial and social development of Sheffield. Although Sheffield was not a national player in prize-fighting’s early days, throughout the mid-1800s, many parochial scores and wagers were settled by the use of fists. By the end of the century, boxing with gloves had become the norm, and Sheffield had a valid claim to be the chief provincial focus of this new passion—largely due to the exploits of George Corfield, Sheffield’s first boxer of national repute. Corfield’s deeds were later surpassed by three British champions: Gus Platts, Johnny Cuthbert and Henry Hall. Concluding with the dual themes of the decline of boxing in Sheffield and the city's changing social profile from the 1950s onwards, the volume ends with a meditation on the arrival of new migrants to the city and the processes that aided or frustrated their integration into UK life and sport.

Author : Jerry Morris
Publisher : America Star Books
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781682901786

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To Fail or to Succeed Is a Choice!: The 'First' Caribbean World Champion by Jerry Morris Pdf

Jerry Morris is a passionate dreamer with a strong belief in one’s potential ability to pursue their dreams successfully. To fail or to succeed is a choice! Is his personal story about his passionate drive to fulfil his dreams and his quest to attain happiness.

Author : Nicolae Sfetcu
Publisher : Nicolae Sfetcu
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-04
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Sports Betting by Nicolae Sfetcu Pdf

Sports betting is the general activity of predicting sports results by making a wager on the outcome of a sporting event. Aside from simple wagers--betting a friend that one's favorite baseball team will win its division, for instance, or buying a football "square" for the Super Bowl--sports betting is commonly done through a bookmaker. Bookmakers generally offer two types of wagers on the winner of a sporting event: a straight-up or money line bet, or a point spread wager. Moneylines and straight-up prices are used to set odds on sports such as soccer, baseball and hockey (the scoring nature of which renders point spreads impractical) as well as individual vs. individual matches, like boxing.

Author : Nicolae Sfetcu
Publisher : Nicolae Sfetcu
Page : 975 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-03
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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A Gambling Guide by Nicolae Sfetcu Pdf

Gambling as a betting action – wagering money or something of material value on an event with an uncertain outcome with the primary intent of winning additional money or material goods. A guide about what is gambling (with a special section for online gambling), casino games with both beatable casino games (poker , blackjack, video poker with progressive jackpot, pai gow poker, sports betting, horse racing – parimutuel, slot machines and other gambling machines) and unbeatable casino games (baccarat, craps, roulette, keno, casino war, faro, pachinko, sic bo, let it ride, 3-card poker, 4-card poker, red dog, Caribbean stud poker, etc.), and non-casino gambling games (bingo, lottery, mahjong, backgammon, bridge, etc.). Fixed-odds gambling in sports is also present in this book with horse racing, greyhound racing, football (particularly association football, American football and rugby), golf, tennis, cricket, baseball, basketball, ice hockey, snooker, motor sports, boxing, darts, cross-country skiing and biathlon. Please, don’t forget to take a look to the legality of the gambling and online gambling, as well as to the articles, warnings and links dedicated to the gambling addiction. Extreme cases of problem gambling may cross over into the realm of mental disorders.

Author : Thomas R. Hietala
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317470625

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Fight of the Century by Thomas R. Hietala Pdf

This is a revealing look at the history of race relations in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century portrayed through the lives and times of the first two African-American heavyweight boxing champions, Jack Johnson and Joe Louis. Incorporating extensive research into the black press of the time, the author explores how the public careers and private lives of these two sports figures both define and explain vital national issues from the early 1900s to the late 1940s.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Labor Standards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Boxing
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045244808

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Hearings on the Creation of a Federal Boxing Board by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Labor Standards Pdf

Author : Mark Allen Baker
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781614231356

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Title Town USA by Mark Allen Baker Pdf

Canastota, New York, at the epicenter of Upstate New York's rich boxing heritage, is home to the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Having produced some of boxing's most prominent pugilists, including Carmen Basilio and Billy Backus, the area has also hosted many legendary fighters, including Jack Britton, Harry Greb, Sam Langford and Tommy Ryan. Many boxing dreams have come true here through title fights and epic ring rivalries. Author Mark Allen Baker tells the story of those "thunder gods of the ring" and the fights that made them famous, finally settling the score: Canastota is "Title Town, USA."

Author : John Gray Geer
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0801858461

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Politicians and Party Politics by John Gray Geer Pdf

Focusing on politicians as individuals rather than their political parties, thirteen essays from a distinguished group of contributors examine how politicians as party members motivate voters, how they conduct campaigns, and how they behave in government. 36 illustrations.

Author : Jack Cavanaugh
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307492166

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Tunney by Jack Cavanaugh Pdf

Among the legendary athletes of the 1920s, the unquestioned halcyon days of sports, stands Gene Tunney, the boxer who upset Jack Dempsey in spectacular fashion, notched a 77—1 record as a prizefighter, and later avenged his sole setback (to a fearless and highly unorthodox fighter named Harry Greb). Yet within a few years of retiring from the ring, Tunney willingly receded into the background, renouncing the image of jock celebrity that became the stock in trade of so many of his contemporaries. To this day, Gene Tunney’s name is most often recognized only in conjunction with his epic “long count” second bout with Dempsey. In Tunney, the veteran journalist and author Jack Cavanaugh gives an account of the incomparable sporting milieu of the Roaring Twenties, centered around Gene Tunney and Jack Dempsey, the gladiators whose two titanic clashes transfixed a nation. Cavanaugh traces Tunney’s life and career, taking us from the mean streets of Tunney’s native Greenwich Village to the Greenwich, Connecticut, home of his only love, the heiress Polly Lauder; from Parris Island to Yale University; from Tunney learning fisticuffs as a skinny kid at the knee of his longshoreman father to his reign atop boxing’s glamorous heavyweight division. Gene Tunney defied easy categorization, as a fighter and as a person. He was a sex symbol, a master of defensive boxing strategy, and the possessor of a powerful, and occasionally showy, intellect–qualities that prompted the great sportswriters of the golden age of sports to portray Tunney as “aloof.” This intelligence would later serve him well in the corporate world, as CEO of several major companies and as a patron of the arts. And while the public craved reports of bad blood between Tunney and Dempsey, the pair were, in reality, respectful ring adversaries who in retirement grew to share a sincere lifelong friendship–with Dempsey even stumping for Tunney’s son, John, during the younger Tunney’s successful run for Congress. Tunney offers a unique perspective on sports, celebrity, and popular culture in the 1920s. But more than an exciting and insightful real-life tale, replete with heads of state, irrepressible showmen, mobsters, Hollywood luminaries, and the cream of New York society, Tunney is an irresistible story of an American underdog who forever changed the way fans look at their heroes.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : UCAL:B5142282

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Corruption in Professional Boxing by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Law
ISBN : UCAL:B5183033

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Business Practices in the Professional Boxing Industry by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Pdf

Author : David Becker,Scott Hill
Publisher : Sports Wisdom
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780980767209

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The Coaches by David Becker,Scott Hill Pdf

Discover how some of Australia¿s most successful sports coaches think and find out the skills they use to coach a winning team or athlete.

Author : Bob Trieger
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781669837121

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New England's Greatest Boxers by Bob Trieger Pdf

From the pivotal crossover from bare knuckles to gloves, when John L. Sullivan was the No. 1 sports celebrity in the United States, despite blacks such as Sam Lanford being prohibited from fighting white world champions, through the forties with Willie Pep and Sandy Saddler, to Rocky Marciano ruling the fifties, Marvelous Marvin Hagler prominent as one of the Four Kings (Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran and Tommy Hearns) during the eighties, up to contemporary times with the lone active fighter, Demetrius Andrade. Who are New England's greatest boxers of all-time, in order, from 1 to 25?