Author: Nat FleischerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boxing
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Nat Fleischer's All-time Ring Record Book ...
Author: Nat FleischerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boxing
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Nat Fleischer's All-time Ring Record Book
Author: Nat FleischerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American athletes
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
The Ring
Author: Nat FleischerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781258793593
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 912
Book Description
The Ring
Author: Nat FleischerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781258789572
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 912
Book Description
Ring Record Book
Author: Historical Dictionary of Boxing
Author: John GrassoPublisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810878674
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 589
Book Description
Boxing is one of the oldest sports in the world, reaching back to the Ancient Greeks, although it has become popular only in the past century or so. But, in some ways, it is a rather complicated sport since – to avoid unnecessary harm – it has been endowed with rules to keep it clean, referees to see the rules are obeyed, and organizations to regulate the sport. Boxing was once largely amateur, although the professional bouts attracted the most attention, but now it is also an Olympic sport. And, over the years, there has been one champion after another who symbolized what boxing was all about, such Joe Louis, Mohammad Ali and Cassius Clay. Naturally, these champions are the focus of the Historical Dictionary of Boxing as well, and they have the biggest entries in the dictionary section, but they had to fight against someone and there are dozens and dozens of other boxers with smaller entries. More of these boxers come from the United States than elsewhere, but there are others from Europe, Asia and Latin America, and there are also entries on the major boxing countries as well. Plus entries on the rules, on the organizations, and on the technical terminology and jargon you have to know just to follow the bouts. The introduction provides a broad view of boxing’s history while the chronology traces events from 688 B.C. to 2012 A.D. Not all that much has been written on boxing that is not ephemeral, but much of that literature can be found in the bibliography. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the sport of boxing.
The Ring ... Record Book and Boxing Encyclopedia
Author: All-sports Record Book
Author: Frank Grant MenkePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sports
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The All-sports Record Book
Author: George Dixon
Author: Jason WindersPublisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 1610757521
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
Winner, 2022 NASSH Book Award (Monograph) On September 6, 1892, a diminutive Black prizefighter brutally dispatched an overmatched white hope in the New Orleans Carnival of Champions boxing tournament. That victory sparked celebrations across Black communities nationwide but fostered unease among sporting fans and officials, delaying public acceptance of mixed-race fighting for half a century. This turn echoed the nation’s disintegrating relations between whites and Blacks and foreshadowed America’s embrace of racial segregation. In this work of sporting and social history we have a biography of Canadian-born, Boston-raised boxer George Dixon (1870–1908), the first Black world champion of any sport and the first Black world boxing champion in any division. George Dixon: The Short Life of Boxing’s First Black World Champion, 1870–1908 chronicles the life of the most consequential Black athlete of the nineteenth century and details for the first time his Carnival appearance, perhaps the most significant bout involving a Black fighter until Jack Johnson began his reign in 1908. Yet despite his triumphs, Dixon has been lost to history, overshadowed by Black athletes whose activism against white supremacy far exceeded his own. George Dixon reveals the story of a man trapped between the white world he served and the Black world that worshipped him. By ceding control to a manipulative white promoter, Dixon was steered through the white power structure of Gilded Age prizefighting, becoming world famous and one of North America’s richest Black men. Unable to hold on to his wealth, however, and battered by his vices, a depleted Dixon was abandoned by his white supporters just as the rising tide of Jim Crow limited both his prospects and the freedom of Blacks nationwide.