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  • Ali and Liston

    The Boy Who Would Be King and the Ugly Bear

    by Bob Mee ...
    Three months after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, two prizefighters named Charles Sonny” Liston and Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. stepped into a boxing ring in Miami to dispute the heavyweight championship of the world. Liston was a mob fighter with a criminal past, and rumors were spreading that Clay was not just a noisy, bright-eyed boy blessed with more than his share of the craziness of ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • A Tiger Rose Out of Georgia

    Tiger Flowers - Champion of the World

    by Bob Mee ...
    Theodore 'Tiger' Flowers rose above the racist bigotry of the Deep South to become the first African-American middleweight champion of the world. To do it, this Christian family man beat a boxing legend, Harry Greb, in the first of the great sporting cathedrals, Madison Square Garden. It was a victory that stunned the sporting world and made him a household name. Yet within a year he had lost his ... Read more

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  • Liston and Ali

    The Ugly Bear and the Boy Who Would Be King

    by Bob Mee ...
    Sport can offer catharsis in times of crisis, but not this time. Liston was a mob fighter with a criminal past, and rumours were spreading that Clay was not just a noisy, bright-eyed boy blessed with more than his share of the craziness of youth, but a believer in a shadowy cult: the Nation of Islam. Instead of a hero and a villain, boxing had served up two bad guys.Against this backdrop of ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • King of the World

    Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero

    by David Remnick ...
    The bestselling biography of Muhammad Ali--with an Introduction by Salman RushdieOn the night in 1964 that Muhammad Ali (then known as Cassius Clay) stepped into the ring with Sonny Liston, he was widely regarded as an irritating freak who danced and talked way too much. Six rounds later Ali was not only the new world heavyweight boxing champion: He was "a new kind of black man" who would shortly ... Read more

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  • Facing Ali

    15 Fighters, 15 Stories

    by Stephen Brunt ...
    They won, they lost, they were scorned or cheered, but they got in the ring with the champ. Muhammad Ali through the stories of 15 of his opponents — an incredible cross-section that reveals Ali as never before.Every fighter who got into the ring with Ali shone brighter as a result; no life or career could be the same afterwards. Stephen Brunt, Canada’s most respected sports writer, has travelled ... Read more

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  • Four Kings

    The intoxicating and captivating tale of four men who changed the face of boxing from award-winning sports writer George Kimball

    by George Kimball ...
    Sports fans and boxing enthusiasts alike will love this compelling study of the resurgence of boxing in the early 1980s - and the four 'greats' who effected that change. Four Kings captures the contests, fighters and the period with a wonderful perception and vividly conjures up those by-gone smoky and raucous ringside nights in Vegas...'Thrilling, insightful and often humourous' - The Independent ... Read more

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  • No Ordinary Joe

    by Joe Calzaghe ...
    IT WAS past three o'clock in the morning when Joe Calzaghe experienced the sweetest validation of his professional life. Victory over Jeff Lacy, a 28-year-old American compared to a young Mike Tyson because of his power and "take-no-prisoners attitude", left no one in doubt about the world super middleweight champion's talent.For years, Calzaghe's virtuosity remained a legend of the Welsh valleys. ... Read more

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  • Cyclone: My Story

    by Barry McGuigan ...
    On a hot summer's night, in June 1985, in one of the most emotionally charged fights of all time, Barry McGuigan beat Eusebio Pedroza to become the featherweight champion of the world. An epic battle that lasted a full 15 rounds, it remains one of sport's greatest moments - watched by 27,000 spectators ringside and by a further 20 million on television around the world.Raised in the border town of ... Read more

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  • Newk: Life on and off the court

    by John Newcombe ...
    Extraordinary stories from both on and off the court...John Newcombe has always been more than a tennis legend. He is an Australian icon. As a player, he was the world number one, a multiple Wimbledon, US and Australian Champion, a fighter who would push himself to the limit and beyond to win. Yet he never (or almost never) lost his sense of humour or fun. When Newk was on court, even in to-the ... Read more

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  • At the Fights: American Writers on Boxing

    A Library of America Special Publication

    by Various ...
    A collection of essays by James Baldwin, Norman Mailer, and other beloved American writers on the primal contest in the boxing ring—and the crazy carnival world outside itFrom neighborhood gyms and smoke-filled arenas to star-studded casinos and exotic locales, American writers have chronicled unforgettable stories about determination and dissipation, about great champions and punch-drunk has ... Read more

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  • The Bowler's Holding, the Batsman's Willey

    The Greatest Collection of Humorous Sporting Quotations Ever!

    by Geoff Tibballs ...
    'He dribbles a lot and the opposition doesn't like it - you can see it all over their faces' - Ron Atkinson'Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the city centre' - Oscar WildeWhether over the moon or sick as a parrot, sportsmen and women can invariably be relied upon to come out with a humorous quote...even if it's not always intentional. The Bowler's Holding, The Batsman's ... Read more

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  • Fearless

    The Story of George Chuvalo, Canada's Greatest Boxer

    by Richard Brignall ...
    Series series Lorimer Recordbooks
    George Chuvalo only wanted one thing: to become a boxer. When Chuvalo stepped into the ring, he was fearless. In ninety-three professional fights between 1956 and 1979, boxing everyone from George Foreman to Muhammad Ali, he was never once knocked out. But this heavyweight boxing legend never had it easy. After losing many loved ones to drugs, Chuvalo has also become a role model out of the ring ... Read more

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