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Downbeach Book nOW Features Boxing

MSC Publishing is proud to announce the publication of DOWNBEACH, the debut novel fromlongtime boxing writer Matt Overs. DOWNBEACH debuted as the Top New Release in Coming-of-Age Fiction on Amazon.…

Staff 01/14/2025

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Book Review: Norman Mailer. Neil Leifer. Howard L. Bingham. The Fight

By Stephanie Kent Nearly fifty years after Muhammad Ali and George Foreman met in Kinshasa, Zaire, Taschen pays homage to the Rumble in the Jungle with a special edition of…

Staff 08/02/2022

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Book Review: Revelation: An Apocalypse in Fifty-Eight Fights by Andrew Rihn

In a sea of ghost-written fight memoirs and tweets with poor grammar, truly beautiful boxing writing is a treat. Andrew Rihn’s Revelation: An Apocalypse in Fifty-Eight Fights is one such…

Staff 03/21/2020

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Book Review: Championship Fighting: Explosive Punching and Aggressive Defense by Jack Dempsey

By: Stephanie Kent No matter the greatness of the teacher, no one can learn boxing from a book. Deep in the archives of great fighting literature, you’ll find Championship Fighting:…

Staff 10/22/2019

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Book Review: The Fight by Norman Mailer

By: Stephanie Kent In The Fight, we follow Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Norman Mailer during the suspenseful weeks leading up to 1974’s “Rumble in the Jungle” matchup between Muhammad Ali and…

Staff 03/22/2019

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Fight Lit Book Review: Fighter by Andy Lee

By: Stephanie Kent Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/Fighter-Andy-Lee/dp/0717183440 Book Review: Fighter by Andy Lee When Andy Lee announced his retirement in early 2018, he was asked how he’d like to be remembered.…

Staff 01/31/2019

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Cruiserweight Josh Himes Aims To “Empower The Everyday Fighter” Among Us

Cruiserweight Josh Himes Aims To “Empower The Everyday Fighter” Among Us By: Sean Crose “Taking it easy,” says cruiserweight Josh “The Handsome Hitman” Himes when asked what's next in his…

Staff 07/06/2017

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A Revealing Boxing Tale: The Violent, Graceful Life of Ezzard Charles

By Ivan G. Goldman When you get disgusted with the four quarreling alphabet groups that control the major belts, it’s worthwhile to look at how things worked back in the…

Staff 06/19/2015

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Book Review: Raw Combat – The Underground World of Mixed Martial Arts

Gift Card Uses for a Fight Fan: Raw Combat-The Underground World of Mixed Martial Arts By: William Holmes With the adoption of the Unified Rules of Mixed Martial Arts by…

Staff 12/28/2011

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Book Review: “PacMan” by Gary A. Poole

Manny Pacquiao's rise to superstardom is one of the world's most unlikely stories. Roger Federer never lived in a cardboard shack. Rafael Nadal's parents didn't need to "borrow a glass…

Staff 11/01/2010

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Book Review: Langford, The Greatest Uncrowned Champion by Clay Moyle.

By Tom Donelson Clay Moyle recent biography, Sam Langford: Boxing's Greates Uncrowned Champion, tells a story of one of boxing’s greatest fighter. It could easily be argued that Sam Langford…

Staff 07/08/2008

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Book Review: Sorcery At Caesars

Sorcery At Caesars: Sugar Ray's Marvelous Fight Inkwater Press 233pp Boxing, perhaps more than any other sport, is fundamentally dramaturgical, an intersection of conflicting epics. And every fighter becomes, thus,…

Staff 06/09/2008

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Ali Book: The Soul of a Butterfly

By Tom Donelson The Soul Of A Butterflyis not a book about boxing; it is a book about life. Muhammad Ali reflection on his life co-written with his daughter Hana…

04/20/2008

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Boxing is My Sanctuary

by John Howard Maybe we need to add a new name to the list of boxing writers out there today. Ted Sares can flat out write about boxing. Prior to…

04/14/2008

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Kindred Spirits

By Scott Wilkerson Sound and Fury: Two Powerful Lives, One Fateful Friendship by Dave Kindred Free Press 368 pp $27 If, in the philosophical economy of knowledge, the truest disclosures…

04/14/2008