Undisputed: An action packed fantasy boxing book where the greatest heavyweights go head-to-head

Undisputed: An action packed fantasy boxing book where the greatest heavyweights go head-to-head
Author: Bruce Anthony
Publisher: Bruce Anthony
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2024-06-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1068623705

As seen in thrilling TikTok trailers comes an exciting fantasy league with twenty of the greatest heavyweight boxers in history colliding to see who’s the best ever. Readers are raving about Undisputed! ‘This is the best boxing book I’ve ever read’ ‘I was so immersed in the fights it felt like I was in the ring myself, once I put the book down couldn’t help shadow boxing with my cat…….the cat won’ 'If you like boxing or sport in general do yourself a favour and give this a read ' ……………………………………………………………………………… Ladies and gentlemen, it’s now time for the main event of book publishing. Steeped in history, the blue ribbon division has experienced some of the most awe-inspiring and exciting moments in sports. Today, in these very pages, we’ll pit the twenty greatest heavyweight boxers head-to-head to see who comes out on top. There will be no ducking tonight. Each warrior will fight the other in a fantasy league in some of the most exciting pugilistic combat to ever be written. Be witness to epic, non-stop action with 190 incredible fights, such as Muhammad Ali vs. Mike Tyson, Lennox Lewis vs. Riddick Bowe, George Foreman vs. Sonny Liston and Rocky Mariano vs. Joe Frazier. So let’s lace up those gloves and start the ring walks…

Bedlam

Bedlam
Author: Kurt Knittel
Publisher: Kurt Knittel
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-07-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Walking with the gods, Elias rediscovers a beautiful yet traumatic past. He was once in love, joined a dangerous Cuban revolutionary group and was left to die after bring betrayed. Now these higher beings demand revenge but does more death give Elias a second chance at life or does it condemn him? For fans of literary fiction and magical realism. Bedlam poetically examines the fragile soul of a man who has experienced the beauty of love and the inhumanity of those that seek power at any cost. The debut novel spans over thirty years during three tumultuous periods in Cuban history: the Cuban revolution, the Castro dictatorship and the fall of the Soviet Union. Blending mythology with a tragic story of love and loss, Bedlam is a 77,000-word novel. Excerpt 1: Ignacio's cheeks rose in disgust as he knelt to leer straight into my eyes. "What are you looking at you dirty thing?" At that moment, I wasn't interested in engaging him, instead, I was too distracted. That strange erratic light had now come closer. The size of a baseball, the orb moved like a wild bumble bee just twenty feet away. It fluttered to and fro, up and over as it streamed across the palm trees, floor and sky. Was it a large firefly? A group of fireflies? Stranger yet, it seemed like I was the only one distracted by its presence. Everyone else ignored the pulsating orb while it repeatedly, and hectically, flew right past or hovered near them. At an angle above the water it suddenly stopped. The object spiraled and turned in place until it grew still. For some reason, I got the feeling that it was staring right at me. Eventually, I became more certain as it slowly moved in my direction. Excerpt 2: For you see, my muse is pink hair bouncing off the sun. Tender kisses that hum'" I love you," long after they're gone. It's a song, a beat, a rhythm. It's a butterfly that speaks pigeon in a world full of penguins. Mine is the fantastic; it's the world when it skips a beat: click, click, ti-click. And me? All I wanted was to rip you away, steal you from some beautiful reverie only to see the expression I must have had so long ago. About the author: A first generation American, Kurt's family emigrated from Cuba and Germany. He grew up immersed in American, Cuban and German culture. Bedlam is his first novel.

Sound and Fury

Sound and Fury
Author: Dave Kindred
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2006-03-10
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780743289238

Muhammad Ali and Howard Cosell were must-see TV long before that phrase became ubiquitous. Individually interesting, together they were mesmerizing. They were profoundly different -- young and old, black and white, a Muslim and a Jew, Ali barely literate and Cosell an editor of his university's law review. Yet they had in common forces that made them unforgettable: Both were, above all, performers who covered up their deep personal insecurities by demanding -- loudly and often -- public acclaim. Theirs was an extraordinary alliance that produced drama, comedy, controversy, and a mutual respect that helped shape both men's lives. Dave Kindred -- uniquely equipped to tell the Ali-Cosell story after a decades-long intimate working relationship with both men -- re-creates their unlikely connection in ways never before attempted. From their first meeting in 1962 through Ali's controversial conversion to Islam and refusal to be inducted into the U.S. Army (the right for him to do both was publicly defended by Cosell), Kindred explores both the heroics that created the men's upward trajectories and the demons that brought them to sadness in their later lives. Kindred draws on his experiences with Ali and Cosell, fresh reporting, and interviews with scores of key personalities -- including the families of both. In the process, Kindred breaks new ground in our understanding of these two unique men. The book presents Ali not as a mythological character but as a man in whole, and it shows Cosell not in caricature but in faithful scale. With vivid scenes, poignant dialogue, and new interpretations of historical events, this is a biography that is novelistically engrossing -- a richly evocative portrait of the friendship that shaped two giants and changed sports and television forever.

Fight Town

Fight Town
Author: Tim Dahlberg
Publisher: Stephens PressLlc
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2007
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9781932173666

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. It's here where lives are shattered, and sometimes lost, in search of the glory and riches that come in the squared circle. This is Fight Town, a place where fame is only one big punch away and the high-rolling gamblers with their fat bankrolls look on to the next big win. Dahlberg tells the stories behind the fights. It was in Las Vegas where Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack were the stars in the showrooms, but fighters like Sonny Liston and a brash Cassius Clay were stars of the ring. The faces and places are all there, spread out over more than 200 pages. This is truly a tribute to both the city and the sport it loves. This is Fight Town.

Race, Sport and Politics

Race, Sport and Politics
Author: Ben Carrington
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2010-08-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1849204292

Written by one of the leading international authorities on the sociology of race and sport, this is the first book to address sport′s role in ′the making of race′, the place of sport within black diasporic struggles for freedom and equality, and the contested location of sport in relation to the politics of recognition within contemporary multicultural societies. Race, Sport and Politics shows how, during the first decades of the twentieth century, the idea of ′the natural black athlete′ was invented in order to make sense of and curtail the political impact and cultural achievements of black sportswomen and men. More recently, ′the black athlete′ as sign has become a highly commodified object within contemporary hyper-commercialized sports-media culture thus limiting the transformative potential of critically conscious black athleticism to re-imagine what it means to be both black and human in the twenty-first century. Race, Sport and Politics will be of interest to students and scholars in sociology of culture and sport, the sociology of race and diaspora studies, postcolonial theory, cultural theory and cultural studies.

Dark Trade

Dark Trade
Author: Donald McRae
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 709
Release: 2014-06-05
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1471135381

WINNER OF THE 1996 WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE. In the early 1990s, Donald McRae set out to discover the truth about the intense and forbidding world of professional boxing. Travelling around the States and Britain, he was welcomed into the inner sanctums of some of the greatest fighters of the period - men such as Mike Tyson, Chris Eubank, Oscar de la Hoya, Frank Bruno, Evander Holyfield and Naseem Hamed among them. They opened up to him, revealing unforgettable personal stories from both inside and outside the ring, and explaining why it is that some are driven to compete in this most brutal of sports, risking their health and even their lives. The result is a classic account of boxing that remains as fresh and entertaining as when it was first published almost 20 years ago. McRae approaches his subjects with wit, compassion and insight, and the result was a book that was a deserved winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year prize.

The MMA Encyclopedia

The MMA Encyclopedia
Author: Jonathan Snowden
Publisher: ECW Press
Total Pages: 732
Release: 2010-11
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1554908442

' "Did you see the big fight this weekend'" The question used to be about boxing matches, when the giants of the fight world were Mike Tyson and Roy Jones. Now fans are leaving the sweet science in droves for the combat sport of the future: mixed martial arts (MMA). MMA has drawn millions on cable and network television, as well as out-performed professional wrestling and boxing on pay-per-view. Fans are attracted to the sport, but unlike boxing (where strategy and technique are limited to using both your left and right hands), an MMA fight can be surprisingly complicated. The MMA Encyclopedia puts the fighters, the facts, and the fundamentals of the world's fastest growing sport at your fingertips as the definitive reference guide to mixed martial arts. The encyclopedia will break the MMA language barrier for those who don't know a wristlock from a wristwatch, while at the same time offering perspective and analysis that will entertain the hardcore fan who already has the basics down pat. With three appendices that detail the results of every MMA'fight in history, this the ultimate reference book for the ultimate sport.

Boxing's Greatest Fighters

Boxing's Greatest Fighters
Author: Bert Randolph Sugar
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1461749816

Easily the most enduring of all sports questions is "Who was/is the best . . . ?" Perhaps in no sport is the question more asked and argued over than in boxing. And in boxing perhaps none is more qualified to answer the question than Bert Randolph Sugar. In Boxing's Greatest Fighters, not only does the former publisher of Ring Magazine tell us who the best fighters were, he lists them in order. Could Sugar Ray Robinson have beaten Muhammad Ali? Could Sugar Ray Leonard have beaten Sonny Liston? The answer, most experts agree, would be "no." But what if, as Bert Sugar has done here, one were to take all the boxers and reduce them in the mind's eye to the same height, the same weight, and the same ring conditions? The answers would be quite different. And while some fans may express outrage that Rocky Marciano barely makes the top twenty, and Marvin Hagler staggers into the top seventy-five, others will nod eagerly when they read that Harry Greb and Benny Leonard were better than just about anybody. So whether you read Boxing's Greatest Fighters cover to cover, pick your favorites at random, or simply browse through the many rare photographs, "at the bell, come out arguing."

Get Me Ellis Rubin!

Get Me Ellis Rubin!
Author: Dary Matera
Publisher: Backinprint.com
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9780595388110

Critically acclaimed memoirs of one of America's most famous, colorful and controversial defense attorneys. A champion for the little man, this fast-paced account reads like Perry Mason and covers some of the most publicized legal issues of our time, including the world-famous "Television Intoxication" case and the history-making "Battered Daughter Defense."

Claiming the Stones, Naming the Bones

Claiming the Stones, Naming the Bones
Author: Elazar Barkan
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2003-01-09
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0892366737

These fourteen essays address controversies over a variety of cultural properties, exploring them from perspectives of law, archeology, physical anthropology, ethnobiology, ethnomusicology, history, and cultural and literary study. The book divides cultural property into three types: Tangible, unique property like the Parthenon marbles; intangible property such as folktales, music, and folk remedies; and communal "representations," which have lead groups to censor both outsiders and insiders as cultural traitors.