(Paperback)
By: Michael Watson
ISBN: 9780751534856
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2005
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A moving personal story of triumph over tragedy by a great British boxing champion.
(Paperback)
By: Mark Hatmaker
ISBN: 9781884654398
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2010
Publisher: Tracks Publishing,U.S.
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Demonstrating through fight metrics how just as many matches are won by strikes as submissions, this manual addresses the importance of proper 'grounding' and lists an array of riding, pinning, and transitioning skills. It offers a one-stop solution for this vital but often overlooked aspect of the mixed martial arts arena.
(Paperback)
By: Peter Boylan
ISBN: 9781483598680
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2017
Publisher: BookBaby
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(Paperback)
By: Mark Hatmaker
ISBN: 9781884654206
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2004
Publisher: Tracks Publishing,U.S.
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The techniques taught in this title enable fighters and self-defense students to knockdown and knockout their opponents. Every punch, kick, elbow blow, knee strike, head-butt, forearm shot and shoulder- butt is detailed.
(Hardback)
By: Lew Freedman
ISBN: 9781440853500
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Susan Perry
ISBN: 9781590300817
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2013
Publisher: Shambhala Publications Inc
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(Hardback)
By: Scott Beekman
ISBN: 9780275984014
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Examines the history of professional wrestling in America. This work offers an account of athletes, entertainers, businessmen, and national outlooks that have determined wrestling's erratic route through American history. It shows how the sport has survived in the face of adverse technological developments and a lack of centralised control.
(Paperback)
By: Budd Schulberg
ISBN: 9781910948231
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2018
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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Ringside is a bountiful collection of the most memorable boxing stories by legendary fight-game writer Budd Schulberg.
Schulberg takes us all the way back to an epic bare-knuckle contest in England 200 years ago;
(Paperback)
By: Eric Reznik
ISBN: 9781543943924
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2019
Publisher: BookBaby
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This book is about a traditional Martial Arts system that was designed in the United States. It describes and discusses histories of the author, the founder, the system, philosophies, requirements, and Martial Arts techniques.
(Paperback)
By: George Plimpton
ISBN: 9780224100236
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2016
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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From the author of Paper Lion
Stepping into the ring against light-heavyweight champion Archie Moore, George Plimpton pauses to wonder what ever induced him to become a participatory journalist.
(Paperback)
By: Leigh Montville
ISBN: 9780307950321
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2018
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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(Paperback)
By: Nicklaus Suino
ISBN: 9781611809176
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2020
Publisher: Shambhala Publications Inc
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(Paperback)
By: Dave Anderson
ISBN: 9780306805745
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 1994
Publisher: Hachette Books
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"Sugar Ray Robinson (1921--1989) was hailed as the finest boxer to ever enter a ring. Muhammad Ali once called him "the king, my master, my idol"--and indeed, he was the idol of everyone who had anything"
(Paperback)
By: Mike Edwards
ISBN: 9781775541547
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2020
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand)
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(Paperback)
By: Matthew Polly
ISBN: 9781592406197
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2012
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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An aging amateur takes a last shot at glory in mixed martial arts.
(Paperback)
By: Billy Cribb
ISBN: 9781840186758
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2005
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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Revealing an underground fight scene rarely glimpsed by those on the outside, Tarmac Warrior traces Billy's career from his first fights on the motorways and A roads around Britain onto the cross channel ferries which provided an arena for many of his early fights.
(Paperback)
By: William Scott Wilson
ISBN: 9781590309926
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2013
Publisher: Shambhala Publications Inc
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(Paperback)
By: Aidan Trimble
ISBN: 9780091949969
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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"The Advanced Karate Manual" is designed as a companion volume to "Karate-Do Manual". Aidan Trimble, while in the Shotokan Karate International, was three times British Champion, twice European Team Champion, first World Individual Kumite Champion and winner of several other titles.
(Hardback)
By: Jim Waltzer
ISBN: 9780313382444
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2011
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This exciting account of the 1921 heavyweight boxing title fight between champion Jack Dempsey and Frenchman Georges Carpentier relates how it originated and how it became a template for modern sports promotion.
(Paperback)
By: Dave Lowry
ISBN: 9781590308462
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2013
Publisher: Shambhala Publications Inc
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(Paperback)
By: Jeff Horn
ISBN: 9780733340437
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2019
Publisher: ABC Books
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(Paperback)
By: Kenji Tokitsu
ISBN: 9781590309490
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2012
Publisher: Shambhala Publications Inc
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(Paperback)
By: Wendy Palmer
ISBN: 9781645470847
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2021
Publisher: Shambhala Publications Inc
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(Hardback)
By: E. C. Wallenfeldt
ISBN: 9780275948672
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 1994
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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NCAA boxing represented a brief, but colorful, chapter in the history of intercollegiate athletics, and it played an important part in the lives of persons making substantial contributions to American society. Wallenfeldt narrates the history of this sport from its inception to 1960, when NCAA boxing effectively came to an end.
