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Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Frankie is a former boxing manager, who initially refuses to train Maggie due to her gender and age. With her talent and his coaching the spirited young fighter rises through the ranks of women's boxing, the pair form a touching bond in the process.
2) Rocky
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
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.
3) Donnybrook
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A three-day bare-fisted fighting tournament in rural Indiana pits a desperate man trying to feed his children with a ruthless and undefeated master fighter turned meth-cooker in this new novel from the author of Crimes in Southern Indiana.
4) Rocky II
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Rocky must cope with the realities of his success, wealth and the responsibilities of marriage, but his main focus is on his second shot at the boxing title against Apollo Creed.
5) Rocky III
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
When Rocky, the heavyweight champ of the world, loses a match with Clubber Lang, he turns to his former opponent Apollo Creed to train him for a rematch.
6) Rocky Balboa
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Rocky is a former heavyweight boxing champion who is known and renown throughout the world for going the distance, finds a new venture: giving back to his community. He finds himself, once more, at opposing side of opportunity, not unlike the one he has seen decades ago. Heavyweight champ Mason Dixon and his representation offer Rocky a shot for the title. For Balboa, it'll be one last hurrah he'll never forget. A look at going full circle and wanting...
Author
Series
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Art and poetry combine to tell the story of boxer Jack Johnson, who became the first African-American world heavyweight boxing champion in the early part of the twentieth century.
8) Real steel
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In a near future world where human boxing has been replaced by robot fighting, eleven-year-old Max tries to reestablish relations with his estranged father, a former boxer and conman desperately looking for a way to pay off his creditors.
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Gunfire, murder, and hate ravage the dusty Texas town of Grayson. The violence is triggered by an upcoming boxing match. Mack Wong, a young Asian boxer, is challenging Bruiser Bill Connors, a powerful but aging fighter. Mack is the son of a vicious killer known as the Dragon. The Dragon mysteriously disappeared more than a decade back after leaving a grotesque trail of slit throats. Terror overwhelms the town as the fight draws near. Hooded outlaws...
11) Cinderella man
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Story of Jim Braddock, a fighter during the depression who triumphs against all odds over heavyweight champ Max Baer in 1935.
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 41
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Henry Cimoli and Spenser have been friends for years, yet the old boxing trainer has never asked the private eye for a favor. Until now. A heavy-handed developer is trying to buy up Henry's condo on Revere Beach and sends thugs to move the process along. Soon Spenser and his apprentice, Zebulon Sixkill, find a trail leading to a mysterious and beautiful woman, a megalomaniacal Las Vegas kingpin, and plans to turn to a chunk of land north of Boston...
13) Annapolis
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Jake Huard, a local kid, is a shipbuilder's son who wants to prove to his father, not to mention himself, that he can cut it as a Naval officer. But at the Academy he runs afoul of a hard-nosed training officer named Cole who does all he can to drive Huard out of the school. They end up settling their differences in the boxing ring during the Academy's annual competition.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Jack Johnson — the first African-American Heavyweight Champion of the World, whose dominance over his white opponents spurred furious debates and race riots in the early 20th century — enters the ring once again in January 2005 when PBS airs Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, a provocative new PBS documentary by acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns. The two-part film airs on PBS Monday-Tuesday January 17-18, 2005, 9:00-11:00 p.m....
15) Punch!: 3
Author
Series
Punch! volume 3
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
"It's time for Elle's boyfriend Kazuki to make his pro debut! If he wins this fight, he gets to take a shot at his rival Ruo. On the flip side, if he loses he gets kicked out of the gym. Though she's against the fight at first, Elle eventually gives in to Kazuki's pure determination. With Elle in Kazuki's corner, winning seems like it's a sure thing--that is, until the rigorous training begins to take its toll on his body. Will Elle's love be enough...
Author
Publisher
Amistad
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Hailed by critics as a long overdue portrait of Sugar Ray Robinson, a man who was as elusive out of the ring as he was magisterial in it, Pound for Pound is a lively and nuanced profile of an athlete who is arguably the best boxer the sport has ever known. So great were Robinson's skills, he was eulogized by Woody Allen, compared to Joe Louis, and praised by Muhammad Ali, who called him "the king, the master, my idol." But the same discipline that...
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In 1936 Berlin, fourteen-year-old Karl Stern, considered Jewish despite a non-religious upbringing, learns to box from the legendary Max Schmeling while struggling with the realities of the Holocaust.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
James J. Braddock was a once promising light heavyweight. But a string of losses in the ring and a broken right hand happened to coincide with the Great Crash of 1929-and Braddock was forced to labor on the docks of Hoboken. Only his manager, Joe Gould, still believed in him. Gould looked out for the burly, quiet Irishman, finding matches for Braddock to help him feed his wife and children. Together, they were about to stage the greatest comeback...
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