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1) Rocky
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Stallone stars as an unknown boxer from the slums of Philadelphia who is given a once-in-a-lifetime shot at the world heavyweight title.
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Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Born into a family of modest means and respectability, Danny Fisher was gradually driven downward into the world of crime, racketeering, and poverty. His bitterness, his homesickness over the loss of the house in Brooklyn that was given to him for his eighth birthday, and his feud with his harsh father, pulled him one way; his natural decency and his love for a sweet Italian girl, Nellie Petito, pulled him another. Danny was a boxer-a sensational...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
En estas páginas sin censura se cuenta todo sobre la vida intensa, de esplendor y tragedia, del mejor boxeador que ha tenido México y uno de los campeones mundiales más grandes de todos los tiempos. De niño, Julio César Chávez vivió con sus padres y hermanos en un Viejo vagón de tren, en la pobreza más extrema; desde sus primeras peleas profesionales sorprendió de inmediato a los expertos; sus victorias ante rivales duros y experimentados...
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Amateur Golden Gloves champ Leon Johnson is forced to turn pro when his sister's expensive medical treatment financially burdens his family. He soon learns the ropes, but just as quickly he gets caught up in his own hype, loses the woman he loves and succumbs to the corruption he vowed he would change.
8) Jungleland
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Stan and Lion are two brothers struggling to stay relevant in the underground world of bare-knuckle boxing. While Stan trains Lion for the fight of his life, a series of events threaten to tear the brothers apart but their love for one another and belief in a better life keep them going.
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English
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History will remember the rivalry of Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali as one for the ages. A trilogy of extraordinary fights that transcended the world of sports and crossed into a sociocultural drama that divided the country. Joe Frazier was a much more complex figure than just his rivalry with Ali would suggest. In this riveting and nuanced portrayal, acclaimed sportswriter Mark Kram, Jr. unlinks Frazier from Ali and for the first time gives a full-bodied...
10) The Hard Corps
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A military veteran that has spent his career in wartime, takes a job as a bodyguard for a boxer and his family who are being troubled by a rap mogul.
13) S.W.A.T
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English
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When things get too tough for the cops, the cops call on the Special Weapons and Tactics unti - better known as S.W.A.T. Two wisecracking, battle-hardened veterans team up with a pair of street smart rookies to form the most free-wheeling, but effective, S.W.A.T. team ever. Their first assignment: transport an international drug kingpin to federal custody, after he's offered $100 million to anyone who will free him.
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Killing volume 12
Language
English
Description
"The King is dead. The Walrus is shot. The Greatest is no more. Elvis Presley, John Lennon, and Muhammad Ali. These three icons changed not only the worlds of music, film, and sports, but the world itself. Their faces were known everywhere, in every nation, across every culture. And their stories became larger than life-until their lives spun out of control at the hands of those they most trusted. In Killing the Legends, Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"From the former heavyweight champion and New York Times-bestselling memoirist comes an intimate look at the life and leadership lessons of Cus D'Amato, the legendary boxing trainer and Mike Tyson's surrogate father. When Cus D'Amato first saw thirteen-year-old Mike Tyson spar in the ring, he proclaimed, "That's the heavyweight champion of the world." D'Amato, who had previously managed the careers of world champions Floyd Patterson and Jose Torres,...
16) Split decision
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the rise of Jesus "El Matador" Chavez through the professional boxing ranks to number one contender for the World Championship when the U.S. government enacted two tough immigration laws that ordered the immediate deportation of all non-U.S. citizens with a criminal conviction. Despite his clear rehabilitation Jesus, with a prior conviction for armed robbery, was deported to Mexico.
17) The quiet man
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
An American prizefighter returns to Ireland in order to forget the past and live peacefully in his village birthplace. He falls in love with the hot-tempered sister of a belligerent neighbor, and trouble ensues over the payment of her dowry.
18) Muhammad Ali
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Introduces Muhammad Ali, detailing how young Cassius Clay learned how to box and became a legendary athlete, civil rights activist, and global icon.
19) Ali: a life
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English
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"Based on more than 500 interviews, including Muhammad Ali's closest associates, and enhanced by access to thousands of pages of newly released FBI records, this is a thrilling story of a man who became one of the great figures of the twentieth century."--
Pub. Date
2000
Language
Español
Description
El gran campeon: La historia de la gran leyenda del boxeo mexicano El Campeon "Kid Azteca" del barrio brava de Tepito. Pelea tras pelea el campeón demuestra su fortalez y habilidad arriba del ring. El amor y las bajas pasiones lo llevan a una lucha sin tregua con la mafia que quire acabarlo.
El beisbolista fenomeno: El famoso beisbolista Jimmy, que murió sin poder lanzar un juego quiere reencarnar en alguien que haga posible tal hazaña. En un...
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