The Bare-Knuckle Breed, Etc. [With Plates.].
Author : Louis Golding
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Page : 231 pages
File Size : 42,25 MB
Release : 1952
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Author : Louis Golding
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Page : 231 pages
File Size : 42,25 MB
Release : 1952
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Author : Louis Golding
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Page : 158 pages
File Size : 31,13 MB
Release : 1957
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Author : Louis Golding
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Page : pages
File Size : 35,28 MB
Release : 1952
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Author : Louis Golding
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,17 MB
Release : 2024-01-12
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ISBN : 9781961301566
Author : Louis Golding
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Page : 256 pages
File Size : 16,28 MB
Release : 1952
Category : Boxing
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Author : Peter Hearn
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Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,43 MB
Release : 1992-01
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ISBN : 9780709046998
Nathan Jones, bare-knuckle fighter of the post-regency era, is safer inside the prize-ring than outside. His naivety outside the ring makes the Cornishman easy prey to Richard Loverington, gambler and wealthy patron of prize-fighters. Easy prey, too, for Loverington's wife.
Author : Stayton Bonner
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 24,22 MB
Release : 2024-04-23
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1982650737
Father. Fighter. Champion. Outlaw. Hailed as an “exhilarating debut” by Publishers Weekly, Bare Knuckle by former Rolling Stone editor Stayton Bonner (nominated for the Dan Jenkins Medal of Excellence in Sportswriting) takes readers into a previously unknown world: the underground circuit of illegal bare-knuckle fighting. Bare Knuckle is the remarkable true tale of Bobby Gunn, the 73–0 undisputed champion of bare-knuckle boxing. An inspiring underdog story that reads like a real-life Rocky. Bobby Gunn has been fighting for his existence since a childhood spent living under the hand of his volatile father, and would do anything to give his seven-year-old daughter a better life—including betting on himself in the underground world of bare-knuckle boxing. In 1984, Gunn was an eleven-year-old boxer in Ontario when his father woke him in the middle of the night to fight grown men in motel parking lots for money, his old man pocketing the cash. From there, Gunn traveled to Las Vegas, Tijuana, and beyond, competing in ringed matches as well as in biker bars and mobster dens on the side, brawling to make ends meet. But it was only with the birth of his daughter—and his desire to help her avoid his fate—that Gunn entered the big-time world of underground Russian-mob matches of up to $50,000 a night in New York City, hoping to finally raise his family above the fray. Former Rolling Stone editor Stayton Bonner travels the underground for years with Gunn, the world champion of bare-knuckle boxing with a 73–0 record, shining a light on a secret circuit that’s never before been revealed. Along the way, we explore the fascinating history of this first sport in America, Gunn’s Irish Traveler community—a sect of religious fighters best known through Brad Pitt’s depiction in Snatch—as well as his part in the improbable rise of the Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship, the first legal revival of the sport. Bare Knuckle, a tale of triumph, loss, and a father’s love for his family, is a heartbreaking but ultimately inspiring story that will have you rooting until the end.
Author : Jordana Moore Saggese
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 11,78 MB
Release : 2024-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 1478059648
In Heavyweight, Jordana Moore Saggese examines images of Black heavyweight boxers to map the visual terrain of racist ideology in the United States, paying particular attention to the intersecting discourses of Blackness, masculinity, and sport. Looking closely at the “shadow archive” of portrayals across fine art, vernacular imagery, and public media at the turn of the twentieth century, shedemonstrates how the images of boxers reveal the racist stereotypes implicit in them, many of which continue to structure ideas of Black men today. With a focus on both anonymous fighters and notorious champions, including Jack Johnson, Saggese contends that popular images of these men provided white spectators a way to render themselves experts on Blackness and Black masculinity. These images became the blueprint for white conceptions of the Black male body—existing between fear and fantasy, simultaneously an object of desire and an instrument of violence. Reframing boxing as yet another way whiteness establishes the violent mythology of its supremacy, Saggese highlights the role of imagery in normalizing a culture of anti-Blackness.
Author : Michael T. Isenberg
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 43,77 MB
Release : 1994-01-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252064340
A knockout biography of John L. Sullivan that puts the fabled boxing champ squarely in the context of his rough-and-tumble times. Drawing on a wealth of contemporary sources, including the scandalous National Police Gazette, Isenberg (History/Annapolis) recounts how Sullivan brawled his way from a working-class background in Boston's Irish ghetto to the top of the prizefighting world.
Author : "Nomad" Brad Helmuth
Publisher :
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 36,96 MB
Release : 2008-11-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781432725853
Autobiography of Nomad Brad Helmuth Brad Helmuth was born in upstate New York, in 1947. The youngest of four children, born of a poor "Dirt farmer" and his loving wife, he is related to the famous western hero, "Buffalo Bill Cody," (on his mother's side). Having a fairly normal childhood, his parents moved to Richmond, Virginia, in the mid-nineteen fifties, where his father passed away, and his mother was forced to raise her children on her own, which involved living in a part of the city where gangs ruled the streets. Having survived into his teens, he quit school and joined the Job Corps, (he was one of five youths, four black, one white, selected out of Richmond, Virginia) to participate in this program. Gang violence, and the death of a friend, caused him to quit the Job Corps and return home. At eighteen he joined the Navy, and after boot camp, he signed up for Viet Nam. He was involved in Special Operations, causing him to spend three years in "The 'Nam," returning, upon discharge, to a world filled with violence... Outlaw motorcycle gangs, rumbles, bar fights, love, heartbreak, drugs, murder, and prison.