epub |eng | | Author:W. K. Stratton

If Floyd had practiced self-denial at his training camps and in his choice of accommodations at earlier fights—a freezing jockey’s room, a rat-infested abandoned dancehall—he now indulged himself. He lodged ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2012-04-14 | Author:Theresa Runstedtler [Runstedtler, Theresa]

Figure 13. The caricatures of black American boxers that appeared in French newspapers closely resembled popular images of the African tirailleurs (soldiers). “Après le match—Sen-Sen chewing gum,” L'Auto, 28 March ...

epub |eng | 2005-11-10 | Author:David Margolick [Margolick, David]

* Schmeling had originally planned to travel to America via the Hindenburg, arriving on May 7. But at Joe Jacobs’s insistence—Jacobs wanted him in New York when the boxing commission ...

epub |deu | 2000-11-06 | Author:David Remnick

Eine Woche vor dem Kampf legte Clay sich auf einen Massagetisch im Fifth Street Gym und sagte zu den Reportern, die um ihn versammelt waren: »Ich mache Geld, der Popcornmann ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2014-08-12 | Author:Theresa Runstedtler

Figure 13. The caricatures of black American boxers that appeared in French newspapers closely resembled popular images of the African tirailleurs (soldiers). “Après le match—Sen-Sen chewing gum,” L'Auto, 28 March ...

epub |eng | | Author:John Florio & Ouisie Shapiro [FLORIO, JOHN]

11 DETROIT. WEST SIDE. 1985. AN ASSORTMENT OF FIGHTERS WHACKED heavy bags, speed bags, and trainers’ mitts as sweat dripped off the hems of their signature red-and-gold T-shirts. The heat ...

epub |eng | 2014-09-21 | Author:Sanjeev Shetty

Scene III For now, Nigel Benn was isolated. The controversial nature of the Eubank–Watson fight and the immediate rematch meant his name wasn’t mentioned as a future opponent for either ...

epub |eng | 2013-04-11 | Author:George Willis

9. Man in the Middle Mills Lane had just finished a three-mile run across the back roads outside of Reno, Nevada, an exercise he undertook at least four times a ...

epub |eng | 2011-03-15 | Author:Thomas Hauser [Hauser, Thomas]

12 Manila MIKE KATZ: “Looking back, people say that Ali-Frazier II was a great fight. And it was; one of the greatest of all time. But going in, a lot ...

epub |nld | 2011-07-28 | Author:Bob Mee

20 RUMBLE, YOUNG MAN, RUMBLE Chris Dundee and Bill MacDonald set the tickets in the 16,448-seat Miami Beach Convention Hall, a pink and blue building surrounded by fountains, from $20 ...

epub |eng | 2011-07-15 | Author:J. Barnes [Barnes, J.]

Meditation Meditation is indispensable to the superior fighter's success, though some will not admit it—or worse, do not realize it. There are many schools of thought on the science of ...

epub |eng | 2014-04-01 | Author:Gerald R. Gems [Gems, Gerald R.]

Chapter Six Religion Religion carries little significance in boxing today, but it played a more important role in the past. For thousands of years religious wars marked the vicissitudes of ...

epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2013-11-12 | Author:Tyson, Mike [Tyson, Mike]

I couldn’t sleep the night before I was going to be released from prison. At four a.m. I started hearing the helicopters whirring outside in the sky. They were from ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:McKenzie, Clinton [McKenzie, Clinton and Lissenden, Hilary]

“ I like to go out drinking, especially when I’m at other people’s gigs – obviously, I have to stay dry for my own. But since I started boxing training ...

epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Joyce Carol Oates

When Santayana said that another world to live in is what we mean by religion, he could hardly have foreseen how his remark might apply to the sports mania of ...