Download or read book Mama s Boy written by Gavin Evans and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lennox Lewis likes to present a cool exterior. World heavyweight champion, the most successful British boxer of all time, his country's richest sportsman, and yet after two decades in the public eye he remains a reclusive enigma. But beneath the dreadlocks and behind the shades is a highly competitive, opinionated and passionate man who has experienced deep emotional pain and isolation along with all the elation of triumph. His early years in the East End of London saw an uneven mix of security and chaos - six good years with his mother Violet, and six bad years shuttled between aunts and care homes, before finally being re-united with his mum in Kitchener, Canada. His professional career pitted him against opponents inside and outside the ring: Riddick Bowe, Mike Tyson and Don King, before he secured his place at the top of the pile. Now, finally, he has made it and he's ready to take his mother's advice of retirement, marriage, family and a new career as a global entrepreneur. Mama's Boy is a compelling story of success and failure, of love and hatred, betrayal and affirmation, in Britain and America, Canada and Jamaica.
Download or read book Lennox Lewis written by Lennox Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lennox Lewis - Britain s first heavyweight champion this century - is a man of paradoxes. In the ring, he is the ruthless boxer and brilliant technician that even Mike Tyson once paid to avoid; out of it, his favourite hobby is chess. Born and brought up in Britain to the age of twelve, it was nevertheless for Canada that he won an Olympic gold medal. Written-off as a has-been following defeat by Oliver McCall, he came back triumphantly to regain his title after years in the wilderness. Lennox Lewis explains the man behind the headlines. It describes his troubled childhood in London's East End, and speaks about the hurt of his separation from his mother Violet, who had no choice but to leave her sons behind as she built a new life for them in Canada. It tells how Lewis came to boxing and documents his relentless drive for success. Most of all, Lennox Lewis shows what it needs - from ferocity in the ring to ruthless wheeler-dealing outside it - to become a world champion. It shows how if any man is equipped to achieve the elusive goal of heavyweight title reunification, Lennox Lewis is that man.
Download or read book Lennox Lewis written by Martyn Tulley and published by Pitch Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Pugilistic History is not a traditional biography of Lennox Lewis, but instead offers expert insight into every one of his 44 professional contests. Lewis's journey to acclaim as world heavyweight champion was itself never straightforward, as reflected in chapters on events outside the ring in the life of the self-styled 'Pugilistic Specialist'.
Download or read book Lennox Lewis written by Lennox Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lennox Lewis written by Martyn Tulley and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Facing Tyson written by Ted Kluck and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2006-11-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Facing Tyson gives a ringside view of the world's most dangerous and notorious boxer. Brutal, controversial, and always newsworthy both inside and outside the ring, Mike Tyson remains a cultural icon to this day. Despite the personal, legal, and mental problems that have overshadowed his celebrated boxing career, he continues to make headlines as a fascinating, yet extremely flawed character. Several of the era's biggest names in boxing, including Pinklon Thomas, Tyrell Biggs, Evander Holyfield, and Lennox Lewis were interviewed by author Ted A. Kluck specifically for Facing Tyson. Each opponent gives his account of what it was like to face the most feared and loathed boxer at different stages of his career. .
Download or read book Jet written by and published by . This book was released on 1994-10-10 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The weekly source of African American political and entertainment news.
Download or read book Rocky Lives written by David E. Finger and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boxing fans love the upset, seeing the underdog surprise the heavy favorite and take the fight to him, winning over the fans and--perhaps even more important--the judges. Sylvester Stallone mined that emotion through his long series of Rocky films. Rocky is fiction, however. The men in Rocky Lives! are real. David E. Finger, a writer for top boxing website FightNews.com, presents chronologically seventy-five heavyweight boxing upsets of the 1990s. Some involve boxers still fighting today; others contain a cautionary tale of once-great boxers chasing one last payday. There are also the early-round disasters of wannabes and athletes who switched to boxing in midstream. From the Tyson-Douglas, Foreman-Moorer, and Lewis-McCall top-dollar fights to low-level curiosities like former New York Jet Mark Gastineau getting embarrassed or Eric "Butterbean" Esch taking to the ring, David Finger presents the best heavyweight upsets the 1990s have to offer. You'll read about crooked promoters drugging opponents, a convicted felon hoping victory in the ring will win him leniency, and a forty-five-year-old preacher looking to exorcise a two-decade-old demon. Rocky Lives! brings all the knockouts and slugfests right into your home.
Download or read book You Can t Lose Them All written by Sal Iacono and published by Twelve. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this informative and entertaining book, learn from Cousin Sal how not to gamble your life away -- along with many other life lessons -- so you don't have to learn the hard way. Over the last forty years, Cousin Sal has made bets with doctors, lawyers, teachers, agents, bookies, writers, comedians, radio DJs, tv producers, baseball players, front office executives, bandleaders, movie stars, publicists, weed lab owners, hedge fund operators, and even professional wrestlers. From his early days growing up in Brooklyn and Long Island flipping baseball cards to now hosting podcasts and TV shows and managing several offshore accounts we don't talk about, Cousin Sal has truly become the average American sports fan's go to source for gambling tips. So here's how not to do it . . . With hilarious tales of love and loss, winning and (a lot) of losing, crazy family and fatherhood, and a life saga that inspired the Phil Collins' song, "Against All Odds," Cousin Sal has now written THE Vegas super-system, MIT-algorithmic, sharp-approved book for how to gamble like a pro -- or at least not how not to go broke and lose your kids to Child Protective Services.
Download or read book Ringside written by Doveed Linder and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-08-19 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-four exclusive interviews with boxing insiders feature the recollections and perspectives of champions, trainers, promoters and officials, as well as those who work behind the scenes. Interviewees include ring legends "Sugar" Ray Leonard, Leon Spinks and Roy Jones, Jr., trainer Angelo Dundee, promoter Bob Arum, ring announcer Michael Buffer, referee Steve Smoger, cutman Joe Souza, sportscaster Al Bernstein and manager Jackie Kallen.
Download or read book God s Undertaker written by John C Lennox and published by Lion Books. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If we are to believe many modern commentators, science has squeezed God into a corner, killed and then buried him with its all-embracing explanations. Atheism, we are told, is the only intellectually tenable position, and any attempt to reintroduce God is likely to impede the progress of science. In this stimulating and thought-provoking book, John Lennox invites us to consider such claims very carefully. This book evaluates the evidence of modern science in relation to the debate between the atheistic and theistic interpretations of the universe, and provides a fresh basis for discussion. The chapters include: War of the worldviews The scope and limits of science Reduction, reduction, reduction... Designer universe Designer biosphere The nature and scope of evolution The origin of life The genetic code and its origin Matters of information The monkey machine and, The origin of information. Now updated and expanded, God's Undertaker is an invaluable contribution to the debate about science's relationship to religion.
Download or read book Muhammad Ali written by Mark Collings and published by Sanctuary Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many regard Muhammad Ali simply as " The Greatest" heavyweight of all time. Others admire his battles against racial injustice and religious intolerance. A few just call him " Dad." They are all here in this book fifty men and women of note coming together to celebrate the man "Sports Illustrated" crowned " Sportsman of the Century" Angelo Dundee, Ali' s trainer; Billy Crystal, actor; Sir Henry Cooper, former British and European heavyweight champion; Bert Sugar, journalist and boxing historian; Hana Ali, Muhammad Ali' s daughter; Ferdie Pacheco, Ali' s fight doctor; and more. This book will be treasured by anyone who has ever been inspired by " The Greatest."
Download or read book Lennox Lewis written by Lennox Lewis and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 1994-04-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jet written by and published by . This book was released on 2004-02-23 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The weekly source of African American political and entertainment news.
Download or read book Where is God in a Coronavirus World written by John Lennox and published by The Good Book Company. This book was released on 2020-04-06 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How belief in a loving and sovereign God helps us to make sense of and cope with the coronavirus outbreak. We are living through a unique, era-defining period. Many of our old certainties have gone, whatever our view of the world and whatever our beliefs. The coronavirus pandemic and its effects are perplexing and unsettling for all of us. How do we begin to think it through and cope with it? In this short yet profound book, Oxford mathematics professor John Lennox examines the coronavirus in light of various belief systems and shows how the Christian worldview not only helps us to make sense of it, but also offers us a sure and certain hope to cling to.
Download or read book The Question of God written by Armand Nicholi and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-08-07 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compares and contrasts the beliefs of two famous thinkers, Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis, on topics ranging from the existence of God and morality to pain and suffering.
Download or read book Taking It On the Chin written by Tom Pendry and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-17 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surely one of the most colourful characters ever to have graced the Palace of Westminster, Tom Pendry has been a boxer, a bruiser and a scholar, whose political career as an agent, candidate, Labour MP and peer has spanned over sixty years. As well as introducing key legislation, his time in Parliament saw him famously kick-start Tony Blair's political career, lead the first antiapartheid demonstration at a cricket match of an all-white South African side, and head up the successful fight to keep sport on Radio 5. During this time, he also took up the constituency case of a local GP complaining of cuts in drugs funding - Harold Shipman, Britain's most prolific serial killer. Well-known within the Labour Party as 'the best Sports Minister we never had', Pendry once dislocated his own shoulder showing Muhammad Ali how to punch, almost knocking out the world heavyweight champion's wife in the process. Full of revealing anecdotes and candid descriptions of colleagues, his memoirs throw new light on successive governments and great, epoch-making events, and are a mixture of light and shade, irreverent wit and deeply serious intent.
