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22) Creed III
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After dominating the boxing world, Adonis Creed has been thriving in both his career and family life. When a childhood friend and former boxing prodigy, Damian, resurfaces after serving a long sentence in prison, he is eager to prove that he deserves his shot in the ring. The face-off between former friends is more than just a fight. To settle the score, Adonis must put his future on the line to battle Damian a fighter who has nothing to lose.
23) Big George Foreman: the miraculous story of the once and future heavyweight champion of the world
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The biographical film of boxing legend George Foreman.
24) Muhammad Ali
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This book introduces Muhammad Ali, who won the World Heavyweight Championship three times.
25) Let it shine
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Sofronia Wallis knows that proper Black women don't court trouble by upending the status quo but its 1961 and the Civil Rights movement is in full swing. Sofie has spent half her life being prim, proper, and reserved but the nonviolent protests happening across the south bring out her inner agitator. Ivan Friedman has devoted his life to boxing, loving the finesse of a well-delivered punch and the penance of receiving one. His family escaped from...
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In this unflinching and inspiring autobiography, the boxing legend faces his single greatest competitor: himself.
Sugar Ray Leonard's brutally honest and uplifting memoir reveals in intimate detail for the first time the complex man behind the boxer. The Olympic hero, multichampionship winner, and beloved athlete waged his own personal battle with depression, rage, addiction, and greed.
Coming from a tumultuous, impoverished household...
Sugar Ray Leonard's brutally honest and uplifting memoir reveals in intimate detail for the first time the complex man behind the boxer. The Olympic hero, multichampionship winner, and beloved athlete waged his own personal battle with depression, rage, addiction, and greed.
Coming from a tumultuous, impoverished household...
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""Muhammad Ali was a champion, a poet, a prophet. Sports Illustrated called him "the greatest athlete of the twentieth century." And yet he was even more than all of that, "a whole greater than the sum of its parts . . . bigger, brighter, more original and influential than just about anyone of his era" (Barack Obama). He got there with his fists, with his actions, and above all, with his words. Compiled and written by his daughter Hana Ali, with sportswriter...
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Presents the life and career of Mexican boxer Jesus Chavez focusing on his family, immigration to America, training, his street gang, prison years, and forced return to Mexico. Discusses his illegal entry into the United States where once again he began boxing winning the Super Featherweight Championship in 1997. Later he was deported a second time and after a four year's court case became an American citizen and continued boxing.
34) Pacman: behind the scenes with Manny Pacquiao : the greatest pound-for-pound fighter in the world
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Examines the life of Manny "PacMan" Pacquiao, the smallest yet strongest fighter in the UFC and boxing.
37) Muhammad Ali
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Presents the life and career of African American boxing champion Muhammad Ali.
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"From the best-selling author behind My Weird School: a quirky new biography series that casts fresh light on high-interest historic figures. Did you know that Muhammad Ali was so terrified of flying on planes he would bring a parachute? Or that he won the Presidential Medal of Freedom? Bet you didn't know that he had an official sweat-taster to determine how salty his sweat was after each match! Siblings Paige and Turner do-and they've collected...