Love him or loathe him, ‘Iron’ Mike Tyson is an icon and one of the most fascinating sporting figures of our time. In this no-holds-barred autobiography, Tyson lays bare his demons and tells his story: from poverty to stardom to hell and back again In this, his first, autobiography, ‘Iron’ Mike Tyson pulls no punches and lays bare the story of his remarkable life and career. Co-written with Larry Sloman, author of Antony Keidis’s best-selling memoir ‘Scar Tissue’, this is a viscera...
Releasedatum: 2013-11-13 Genre:Sport en buitenleven € 8,99
The knock-out Sunday Times bestseller from BBC Sport Personality of the Year nominee, the People's Champion and Gypsy King: Tyson Fury ________________________________________ PICK YOURSELF UP OFF THE CANVAS. TRANSFORM YOUR BODY AND MIND. MAKE YOUR COMEBACK. ________________________________________ 'Tyson's story ranks as one of the greatest comebacks ever. Not just in sport.' Telegraph 'Full of tips on getting physically and mentally fitter ... a great antidote to battling lockdown blues.' Even...
Releasedatum: 2020-11-12 Genre:Sport en buitenleven € 8,49
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER 'Tony is a champion who knows the hardest battle is always with yourself. Everyone who reads this book will find a change to make in their own life ' ANT MIDDLETON **THE PULL-NO-PUNCHES GUIDE TO LIFE** "When your job is to stand in front of a very big man who wants to knock you unconscious, you learn what's important in life. In the ring there's nowhere to hide. I was never the biggest or the strongest but I made the most of what I had - I had heart an...
Releasedatum: 2021-05-13 Genre:Sport en buitenleven € 4,49
Thomas Hauser, auteur van de alom geprezen biografie Muhammad Ali. His Life and Times, schreef deze meeslepende terugblik op het leven van Muhammad Ali. Op basis van eigen inzichten, gesprekken met mensen die Ali van nabij kenden en andere tijdgenoten, en tientallen jaren verslaggeving vanuit het hart van de bokssport, schetst Hauser een kleurrijk en scherp beeld van Ali binnen en buiten de boksring. In Muhammad Ali. Zijn leven, zijn strijd ontdoet Thomas Hauser de persoon Muhammad Ali van alle ...
Releasedatum: 2016-10-12 Genre:Sport en buitenleven € 11,99
A reissue of bestselling, award-winning author Joyce Carol Oates' classic collection of essays on boxing.
Releasedatum: 2009-10-13 Genre:Sport en buitenleven € 10,99
**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** Gypsy Queen to the Gypsy King, Tyson Fury's wife Paris reveals the magical highs and epic lows of life with the Heavyweight Boxing World Champion, as she shares their life story and what keeps them strong through the good times - and the bad. Paris Fury is Tyson's rock, the wife he thanks for all his success. Both from Traveller families, she married him at 19 and is hands-on mother to their six children, as well as at his side through every fight. Always glamorou...
Releasedatum: 2021-10-28 Genre:Sport en buitenleven € 4,49
Norman Mailer's The Fight focuses on the 1974 World Heavyweight Boxing Championship in Kinshasa, Zaire. Muhammad Ali met George Foreman in the ring. Foreman's genius employed silence, serenity and cunning. He had never been defeated. His hands were his instrument, and 'he kept them in his pockets the way a hunter lays his rifle back into its velvet case'. Together the two men made boxing history in an explosive meeting of two great minds, two iron wills and monumental egos.
Releasedatum: 2016-09-08 Genre:Sport en buitenleven € 9,49
I'm A Little Special: A Muhammad Ali Reader collects 30 of the best pieces ever written about this sporting legend in an anthology by the greatest about the Greatest. Muhammad Ali's story is told by a stellar array of authors, athletes and social commentators, all of them compelled to write about this amazing man. In addition to pieces by Hunter S. Thompson, Tom Wolfe and Norman Mailer, Floyd Patterson defends Ali's right to criticise America's participation in the Vietnam War; Malcolm X explain...
Releasedatum: 2012-09-30 Genre:Sport en buitenleven € 6,99
Crushing your enemies, driving them before you, and hearing the lamentations of their women? It doesn't get any better than this." –Eugene Robinson, ripping off John Milius That's the sentiment that surges just below the surface of Eugene Robinson's Fight – an engrossing, intimate look into the all–absorbing world of fighting. Robinson – a former body–builder, one–time bouncer, and lifelong fight connoisseur – takes readers on a no–holds–barred plunge into what fighting is all ...
Releasedatum: 2010-09-28 Genre:Sport en buitenleven € 22,99