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Download or read book Corruption in Professional Boxing written by United States and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book When Boxing Was a Jewish Sport written by Allen Bodner and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2011-02-04 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid portrayal of the important role of Jews in American boxing history, and vice versa.

Download or read book Professional Boxing Corporation written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Competitiveness and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed to some depository libraries in microfiche.

Download or read book Hawai'i Sports written by Dan Cisco and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of Hawaiian sports and lists local records

Download or read book The Urban Geography of Boxing written by Benita Heiskanen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating analysis of power relations embedded in sport, culture, and society combines ethnographic fieldwork, interviews, and theoretical analysis to offer a timely interdisciplinary perspective to existing scholarship on boxing. It will be of interest to readers in Sport Studies, Cultural Studies, Cultural Geography, Gender Studies, Critical Race Theory, Labor Studies, and American Studies.

Download or read book Boxing written by Friedrich Unterharnscheidt and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2003-04-22 with total page 817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book neither argues for or against the continuation of boxing, but lays out the literature and the body of scientific knowledge that are necessary to provide a meaningful background for the ensuing debate. It provides a comprehensive resource for those who are involved in regulating boxing and those who participate directly, as well as for the medical and scientific communities. Includes carefully quoted case histories and research as well as an extensive body of medical literature on boxing injuries to demonstrate that brain damage is a natural consequence of boxing.* Presents in-depth analysis of the phenomenon of "punch drunkness"* Includes detailed case histories of the clinical and pathomorphological findings uncovered by current medical research* Extensively reviews medical literature

Download or read book Fight Pictures written by Dan Streible and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-04-11 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first filmed prizefight, Veriscope's Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight (1897) became one of cinema's first major attractions, ushering in an era in which hugely successful boxing films helped transform a stigmatized sport into legitimate entertainment. Exploring a significant and fascinating period in the development of modern sports and media, Fight Pictures is the first work to chronicle the mostly forgotten story of how legitimate bouts, fake fights, comic sparring matches, and more came to silent-era screens and became part of American popular culture.