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Someone’s Grin Has Gotta Go
HOPKINS: “I understand that this fight is win or go home for me. There’s really no tomorrow for me.”
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Facing Ali $5.82 He rocked the sport, shook the world, and changed their lives. Now, several decades after they met in the ring, ten of the sport’s finest fighters tell what it was like to battle Muhammad Ali, the man many consider the best boxer ever. This brutally honest documentary recounts Ali’s incomparable journey as seen through the eyes of those who stepped through the ropes and into history. Join these re… |
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Muhammad Ali – The Greatest Collection $24.98 Before Muhammad Ali, plenty of African American heavyweights boxed, but few did for the game (or for blacks) what Ali did. Ali was bold, outrageous, and controversial. His antics outside of the ring showed an often-hilarious flair for self-promotion, and his conversion to Islam and decision to avoid the Vietnam War only fueled the storm of controversy that surrounded him. The thing about Ali, tho… |
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A Boxer in the Mexican Revolution: The Fighter (1952) $4.99 Set during the Mexican Revolution, The Fighter is a hard hitting cinematic experience, weaving together heroism, boxing, tragedy, and politics. Based on the novel “The Mexican” by Jack London, the film stars superb actor Richard Conte as a young man who’s lost everything when his family, and entire village, is massacred by the Mexican dictatorship. Conte joins the revolutionaries, but realizes tha… |
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Boxing’s Greatest Fighters $7.43 … |
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The First Black Boxing Champions: Essays on Fighters of the 1800s to the 1920s $40.50 This volume presents fifteen chapters of biography of African American and black champions and challengers of the early prize ring. They range from Tom Molineaux, a slave who won freedom and fame in the ring in the early 1800s; to Joe Gans, the first African American world champion; to the flamboyant Jack Johnson, deemed such a threat to white society that film of his defeat of former champion and… |
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When Boxing Was a Jewish Sport $16.90 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 fight arenas, and incorporates interviews with more than thirty former boxers, trainers, managers, promoters, and boxing judges to report on this overlooked … |
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Fight Night Champion $25.90 Fight Night Champion is a multiplayer boxing game for play on PlayStation 3 that blends traditional one-on-one pugilistic action of previous games in the Fight Night franchise with new, more gritty story-driven gameplay rooted in the all-new Champion Mode. Game features include: unprecedented precision and accuracy of punches; local and online multiplayer support for four and ten players respect… |
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Fight Night Champion $19.69 Fight Night Champion is a multiplayer boxing game for play on Xbox 360 that blends traditional one-on-one pugilistic action of previous games in the Fight Night franchise with new, more gritty story-driven gameplay rooted in the all-new Champion Mode. Game features include: unprecedented precision and accuracy of punches; local and online multiplayer support for four and ten players respectively… |
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Greatest Heavyweights $15.98 … |
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Photo Jigsaw Puzzle of Joshua Hudson, Boxer from Mary Evans $29.99 Photo Puzzle, JOSHUA HUDSON, BOXER. Joshua Hudson, the John Bull fighter . Chosen by Mary Evans. 10×14 Photo Puzzle with 252 pieces. Packed in black cardboard box of dimensions 5 5/8 x 7 5/8 x 1 1/5. Puzzle image 5×7 affixed to box top. Puzzle pieces printed on RA4 paper at 300 dpi. This item is shipped from our American lab…. |
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