Boxning

"Den personliga resan sticker verkligen ut från andra idrottares biografier." Maja Aase, BTJ Det är en regnvåt söndagskväll i februari när Mikaelas tillvaro krossas. Hon häktas för dopningsbrott och döms till 14 månaders fängelse.¿ Mikaela Laurén,...

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INGO - vägen till VM - Jiujitsumästaren, f.d. boxaren och pressfotografen Kurt Durewall följde många av Ingemar Ingo Johanssons matcher och träningar med kameran redo. Bilderna användes ofta av Ingemar, tränaren Edwin Ahlqvist och Kurt när dom dis...

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"En av de bästa sportbiografierna som gjorts på svenska. Det är så starkt och det är så mäktigt, och en sån otrolig ömhet i boken. Boken handlar väldigt mycket om att skapa sig en självkänsla att lära sig älska och bli älskad.." Recensent Magnus U...

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'Bravura on the ground reporting' David Goldblatt, award-winning author of The Ball is Round 'This is an important book' Simon Kuper, bestselling author of Soccernomics, Chums and Barça 'Compelling' The Times 'A subtle examination of the complex i...

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Som ensamkommande flyktingbarn från kriget i Afghanistan hade jag svårt att sova i mitt rum hos min svenska fostermamma. Men mardrömmarna och ångesten dämpades när jag slog på sandsäcken som hängde i taket. Det skulle visa sig att boxningen gjorde...

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On October 30, 1974, in Kinshasa, Zaire, at the virtual center of Africa, two boxers were paid five million dollars apiece to confront each other in an epic match. One was Muhammad Ali, who vowed to reclaim the championship he had lost. The other ...

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When French sociologist Loïc Wacquant signed up at a boxing gym in a black neighborhood of Chicago's South Side, he had never contemplated getting close to a ring, let alone climbing into it. Yet for three years he immersed himself among local fig...

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The 1974 fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman, staged in the young nation of Zaire and dubbed the Rumble in the Jungle, was arguably the biggest sporting event of the twentieth century. The bout between an ascendant undefeated champ and a...

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Friday Night Fighter relives a lost moment in American postwar history, when boxing ruled as one of the nation's most widely televised sports. During the 1950s and 1960s, viewers tuned in weekly, sometimes even daily, to watch widely recognized fi...

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The black prizefighter labored in one of the few trades where an African American man could win renown: boxing. His prowess in the ring asserted an independence and powerful masculinity rare for black men in a white-dominated society, allowing him...

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Grasping the rhythm and flow of boxing's defiance and contradictions Professional boxers practice their trade within an ostensibly apolitical arena. In reality, however, the fighters work inside a capitalistic and neoliberal sports culture that th...

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NCAA boxing represented a brief, but colorful, chapter in the history of intercollegiate athletics, and it played an important part in the lives of persons making substantial contributions to American society. This story of NCAA boxing is told fro...

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This is a splendid oral history of a time between World War I and World War II when Jewish athletes were the dominant ethnic group in professional boxing in the United States. The author draws on his own personal experience in New York City's figh...

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African American historian Gerald Early refers to Jack Johnson (1878-1946), the first African American heavyweight champion of the world, as the first African American pop culture icon. Johnson is a seminal and iconic figure in the history of race...

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Boxing was popular in the American West long before Las Vegas became its epicenter. However, not everyone in the region was a fan. Counterpunch examines how the sport's meteoric rise in popularity in the West ran concurrently with a growing backla...

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Lords of the Ring revives the exciting era - now largely forgotten - when college boxing attracted huge crowds and flashy headlines, outdrawing the professional bouts. On the same night in 1940 when Joe Louis defended his heavy-weight crown before...

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At the pinnacle of his boxing career during the 1960s and early 1970s, Muhammad Ali seemed to be a cultural symbol of the times. He has been viewed by some as a hero and by others as a rebel, but either way he is arguably the most famous American ...

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This book presents a sweeping view of boxing in the United States and the influence of the sport on American culture. Boxing has long been a popular fixture of American sport and culture, despite its decidedly seedy side (the fact that numerous bo...

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This exciting account of the 1921 heavyweight boxing title fight between champion Jack Dempsey and Frenchman Georges Carpentier relates how it originated and how it became a template for modern sports promotion. Immortalized as the battle of the c...

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This insightful study offers a fresh perspective on the life and career of champion boxer Joe Louis. The remarkable success and global popularity of the "Brown Bomber" made him a lightning rod for debate over the role and rights of African America...

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In his day, Jack Johnson - born in Texas, the son of former slaves - was the most famous black man on the planet. As the first African American World Heavyweight Champion (1908-1915), he publicly challenged white supremacy at home and abroad, enjo...

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