The Arc of Boxing: The Rise and Decline of the Sweet Science - Hardcover

Silver, Mike

 
9780786438495: The Arc of Boxing: The Rise and Decline of the Sweet Science
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0786438495 ISBN 13: 9780786438495
Verlag: McFarland & Company, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

Are today's boxers better than their predecessors, or is modern boxing a shadow of its former self? Boxing historians discuss the socioeconomic and demographic changes that have affected the quality, prominence and popularity of the sport over the past century. Among the interviewees are world-renowned scholars, some of the sport's premier trainers, and former amateur and professional world champions. Chapters cover such topics as the ongoing deterioration of boxer' skills, their endurance, the decline in the number of fights and the psychological readiness of championship-caliber boxers. The strengths and weaknesses of today's superstars are analyzed and compared to those of such past greats as Joe Louis, Sugar Ray Robinson, Jack Dempsey and Jake LaMotta.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Mike Silver is a former boxing promoter and inspector with the New York State Athletic Commission whose many articles on boxing have appeared in the New York Times, Ring magazine, Boxing Monthly and ESPN and Seconds Out websites.

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Verlag
McFarland & Company
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0786438495
ISBN 13 
9780786438495
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
229
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