When The Heavyweight Title Mattered

Author : John G. Robertson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-30
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476637310

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When the Heavyweight Title Mattered by John G. Robertson Pdf

The world heavyweight boxing championship once transcended the sport, conferring global renown. This book gives detailed coverage to five legendary championship bouts that captivated audiences worldwide. Coaxed out of retirement by the press, former champ James J. Jeffries challenged black titleholder Jack Johnson--universally despised by white audiences--in 1910, in hopes of returning the title to the white race. In 1921, dapper World War I hero and light-heavyweight champion Georges Carpentier hoped to upset heavyweight champ Jack Dempsey, widely considered a draft-dodger, in a fight that garnered the first "million dollar gate." In perhaps the most politically charged bout ever, "Brown Bomber" Joe Louis, popular with both white and black America, faced Nazi Germany's Max Schmeling--the first ever to win the title by disqualification--at a sold-out Yankee stadium in 1938. A relentless brawler, undefeated Rocky Marciano in 1952 sought to bludgeon the title away from the more experienced and savvier Joe Walcott, at 38 the oldest heavyweight champ in history. In a monumental clash of two undefeated world champions, Muhammad Ali--on the comeback trail after his title was stripped from him for refusing to be drafted during the Vietnam War--squared off with titleholder Joe Frazier in 1971.

Author : Bo Brumble
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-18
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781662479588

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Boxing Still Matters by Bo Brumble Pdf

Boxing Still Matters is a fact-based history of professional boxing from 1981 to 2021, the years immediately following the time span covered in When Boxing Mattered, the author's first book, which focused on 1880-1980. The book utilizes a decade-by-decade approach and features the big names of the four decades covered. Marquee names, Larry Holmes, the Klitschko brothers, Mike Tyson, Anthony Joshua, Tyson Fury, Lennox Lewis, George Foreman, Evander Holyfield, Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Sugar Ray Leonard, Thomas Hearns, Alexis Arguello, Aaron Pryor, Julio Cesar Chavez, Bernard Hopkins, Oscar De La Hoya, Floyd Mayweather Jr., Manny Pacquiao, Canelo Alvarez, and Vasiliy Lomachenko are all covered and accompanied by historical photographs.

Author : Bo Brumble
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781662431524

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When Boxing Mattered by Bo Brumble Pdf

When Boxing Mattered is a fact-based history of boxing covering the classic era from 1880 to 1980. Beginning with John L. Sullivan and the bare-knuckle beginnings of the modern sport, the author takes the reader through all the greats, and some of the not-so-greats, who make up the fascinating history of professional boxing. The book utilizes a decade-by-decade approach, focusing on the original eight weight divisions. All-timers Jack Johnson, Stanley Ketchel, Joe Gans, Barbados Joe Walcott, Jack Dempsey, Willie Pep, Sugar Ray Robinson, Rocky Marciano, Panama Al Brown, Archie Moore, and Muhammad Ali as well as many, many more are covered in detail, aided by historical photographs. The author also takes on the various sanctioning bodies that govern professional boxing and whom he feels have had a largely negative influence on the Sweet Science.

Author : Eric Dunning
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134870141

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Sport Matters by Eric Dunning Pdf

1999 North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Annual Book Award Sport Matters offers a comprehensive introduction to the study of modern sport from a sociological perspective. It covers such topics as the history of sport, the development of ideas of 'fair play', sport and the emotions, the professionalization of sport, race-relations and sport and sport and gender. Unique in its cross-cultural analysis, it uses examples from around the globe, including sports spectator violence in North America, the growth of international soccer and the role of sport in the European identity.

Author : Nat Fleischer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Boxing
ISBN : UOM:39015001376568

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The Heavyweight Championship by Nat Fleischer Pdf

Boxsport, Schwergewicht, Geschichte, Biographie.

Author : John Ensor
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433519598

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Doing Things Right in Matters of the Heart by John Ensor Pdf

There is a radical, biblical alternative to much of what is taught and practiced today regarding relationships. Doing Things Right in Matters of the Heart presents a bold plan for escaping the swift currents of contemporary patterns of hooking up, shacking up, and breaking up. It draws a compelling vision of complementarity between the sexes. It instructs men on what to do and informs women on what to look for in their mutual pursuit of a healthy, tender, long-term relationship.

Author : John Bloom,Michael Willard
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2002-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814798829

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Sports Matters by John Bloom,Michael Willard Pdf

Sports Matters brings critical attention to the centrality of race within the politics and pleasures of the massive sports culture that developed in the U.S. during the past century and a half.

Author : Ian Carey
Publisher : eBookIt.com
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781456613150

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When Boxing Was, Like, Ridiculously Racist by Ian Carey Pdf

This is the story of the lineage of Boxing's World Heavyweight Championship from 1882-1915 and how it explains a cultural attitude toward race and identity in that era. The first true national and international sports celebrities were boxers in the late 1800s. Soon after the abolishment of slavery in the United States the first World Champions of the sport were crowned. As the Champion of the World these boxing heavyweights were held on a pedestal of athletic dominance, and in the eyes of some white Americans, and many of those in the boxing community, these champions had to be white, anything else would challenge the belief of white Anglo-saxon superiority that many white Americans were clinging to at the time. It is the story of the symbol of the World Champion during that period and what it meant in society. It's also a story about a bunch of tough, bad-ass guys from over a hundred years ago that used to beat each other up.

Author : Paul Beston
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781442272903

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The Boxing Kings by Paul Beston Pdf

For much of the twentieth century, boxing was one of America’s most popular sports, and the heavyweight champions were figures known to all. Their exploits were reported regularly in the newspapers—often outside the sports pages—and their fame and wealth dwarfed those of other athletes. Long after their heyday, these icons continue to be synonymous with the “sweet science.” In The Boxing Kings: When American Heavyweights Ruled the Ring, Paul Beston profiles these larger-than-life men who held a central place in American culture. Among the figures covered are John L. Sullivan, who made the heavyweight championship a commercial property; Jack Johnson, who became the first black man to claim the title; Jack Dempsey, a sporting symbol of the Roaring Twenties; Joe Louis, whose contributions to racial tolerance and social progress transcended even his greatness in the ring; Rocky Marciano, who became an embodiment of the American Dream; Muhammad Ali, who took on the U.S. government and revolutionized professional sports with his showmanship; and Mike Tyson, a hard-punching dynamo who typified the modern celebrity. This gallery of flawed but sympathetic men also includes comics, dandies, bookworms, divas, ex-cons, workingmen, and even a tough-guy-turned-preacher. As the heavyweight title passed from one claimant to another, their stories opened a window into the larger history of the United States. Boxing fans, sports historians, and those interested in U.S. race relations as it intersects with sports will find this book a fascinating exploration into how engrained boxing once was in America’s social and cultural fabric.

Author : John Durant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 125882079X

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The Heavyweight Champions by John Durant Pdf

Author : Mark Allen Baker
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-31
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476677651

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The World Colored Heavyweight Championship, 1876-1937 by Mark Allen Baker Pdf

For six decades the World Colored Heavyweight Championship was a useful tool of racial oppression--the existence of the title far more important to the white public than its succession of champions. It took some extraordinary individuals, most notably Jack Johnson, to challenge "the color line" in the ring, although the title and the black fighters who contended for it continued until the reign of Joe Louis a generation later. This history traces the advent and demise of the Championship, the stories of the 28 professional athletes who won it, and the demarcation of the color line both in and out of the ring.

Author : Jack Rummel,Gloria Blakely
Publisher : Chelsea House Pub
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2004-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0791083306

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Muhammad Ali, Heavyweight Champion by Jack Rummel,Gloria Blakely Pdf

Chronicles the life of the heavyweight boxing champion, from his early years to his draft resistance through his astounding boxing career which established him as one of the greatest fighters of all time.

Author : Larry Holmes
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781647014292

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Don't Tell Me I Can't by Larry Holmes Pdf

Larry Holmes is a boxing legend and often ranked by boxing historians as one of the best fighters to ever lace up the gloves. He held the heavyweight title for nearly eight years during what many fans and scribes consider the Golden Era of the sport. He fought his way to the pinnacle of success despite (and because of) unscrupulous promoters, crooked officials, naysayers, and the shark-infested waters of boxing's movers and shakers. But he kept on winning. This is his story. Unfiltered and raw. It's told with the help of business associates, competitors, broadcasters, friends, and family. This is Larry Holmes's tell-all view of his career and the boxing world. His observations, opinions, and insights bring you into the ring for his most noted fights (Norton, Ali, Cooney, Shavers, and Tyson) and shares with the reader what he thinks and how he feels. This book is a must-have for boxing fans.

Author : Irving T. Marsh,Edward Ehre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Sports
ISBN : STANFORD:36105027565873

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Best Sports Stories by Irving T. Marsh,Edward Ehre Pdf

Author : Harry Bingham
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : NWU:35556040819054

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Stuff Matters by Harry Bingham Pdf

Harry Bingham used to be an economist and a banker and thought he understood money. Then, in autumn 2008, the world stood on the edge of calamity and Harry realised that all the things he knew had been proven utterly wrong.