The first book on Atlantic City Boxing is now on sale
During the early years of Atlantic City boxing, the fight game was bustling.
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During the early years of Atlantic City boxing, the fight game was bustling.
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Lou Ambers: A Biography of the World Lightweight Champion and Hall of Famer By Mark Allen Baker About the Book Born Luigi d’Ambrosio, Lou Ambers grew up in Herkimer, New York, during the Great Depression. He and his nine siblings watched their father lose his business. Then they lost their father. Taking to the ring as
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PHILADELPHIA’S BOXING HISTORY SCRAPBOOK 1843 to 2020 By Chuck Hasson Description This isn’t Hemingway or Liebling nor is it Silver, Toledo, Peltz or Oppenheim. Its just the pedestrian’s tour through Philly’s boxing past from the beginning to the present. A fight on a barge. Then watch two fighters squaring off in a makeshift ring pitched
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George Dixon: The Short Life of Boxing’s First Black World Champion, 1870–1908 by Jason Winders
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The Life and Crimes of John Morrissey: Bare-Knuckle Boxing Champion, New York Gangster, Irish American Politician by Kenneth Bridgham (Author) In 1855, New York City was scandalized by one of the most infamous murders in its history, that of gang leader Bill “the Butcher” Poole, the feared knife-fighter who later would inspire Daniel Day-Lewis’s character in Martin
On November 26, 1908, Stanley Ketchel made pugilistic history when he stopped Billy Papke to become the first two-time middleweight champion.
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President of Pandemonium: The Mad World Of Ike Ibeabuchi
by Luke G. Williams (Author)
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Shot at a Brothel: The Spectacular Demise of Oscar “Ringo” Bonavena By Patrick Connor Coming August 2021! Description In Shot at a Brothel, Patrick Connor reveals the salacious story of how handsome, playful, heavyweight boxer Oscar “Ringo” Bonavena wound up murdered outside of an infamous Nevada brothel, and why. Argentine heavyweight Oscar “Ringo” Bonavena was
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Eder Jofre: Brazil’s First Boxing World Champion March 26, 2021 by Christopher J Smith (Author) DESCRIPTION: Eder Jofre: Brazil’s First Boxing World Champion is an intimate look into the life and spectacular career of South America’s finest boxer, ranked by the International Boxing Research Organization as the greatest bantamweight of all-time. In the 1960s, Jofre went undefeated
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