This comprehensive manual illustrates and tells how to throw advanced combinations, cut off the ring, fight off the ropes, generate power, corner a foe and how to hit and not get hit.

"Jack Dempsey, one of the greatest and most popular boxers of all time, reveals the techniques behind his unparalleled success in the ring.

"This is a brilliant study, warm and frequently thrilling, of an inspired combination of subjects.

An inside look at modern-day amateur boxing describes one journalist's obsessive preparation for the Golden Gloves Tournament at the age of thirty-two.

This text invites us to follow Wacquant's immersion into the everyday world of Chicago's boxers.

Then they go back to those jobs with blackened eyes and loosened teeth and the sense that they can handle anything. Fight Club is the invention of Tyler Durden, projectionist, waiter and dark, anarchic genius.

Burroughs calls up successful motifs from earlier works and recombines them in a roller-coaster fashion. The work starts as a social critique of the inner city, Chicago, but quickly moves to sea.

Documents the ruin waiting for almost all those ill-advised enough to become professional boxers.