Fighting Life (eBook)

My Seven Decades in Boxing

Lou Duva (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
256 Seiten
Sports Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-61321-876-1 (ISBN)

Infos

For more than seven decades, Lou Duva has been a mainstay in the boxing world. With his craggy face and the bulbous nose of a boxer with questionable defensive skills, Duva is one of the most enduring images of boxing, having climbed in and out of rings for championship fights on six different continents. In Lou Duva: A Fighting Life, youll hear firsthand the exhilarating story of how Duva balanced family life and his work with nineteen different world champions.The son of Italian immigrants who landed at Ellis Island and lived in Manhattan before moving the family to Paterson, New Jersey, Duva had the odds stacked against him. Rather than settling, Duva was able to claw his way out of poverty to reach the pinnacle of the boxing business, where he laid the foundation of Main Events Promotionsone of the most powerful boxing promotions companies in the sport.Lou Duva: A Fighting Life chronicles an amazing boxing career filled with ups and downs. From his training of champions including Evander Holyfield and Lennox Lewis to staging some of the biggest bouts in the history of boxing, including the classic match between Sugar Ray Leonard and Thomas Hearns, to the notorious Riot at the Garden, Duva pulls no punches as he shares his Hall of Fame life for the first time.Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Sports Publishing imprint, is proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in sportsbooks about baseball, pro football, college football, pro and college basketball, hockey, or soccer, we have a book about your sport or your team.In addition to books on popular team sports, we also publish books for a wide variety of athletes and sports enthusiasts, including books on running, cycling, horseback riding, swimming, tennis, martial arts, golf, camping, hiking, aviation, boating, and so much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Autor

Lou Duva has been a boxing trainer for over fifty years and involved in the sport for seven decades. He has trained nineteen world champions, promoted boxing events in over twenty countries, and is a member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame. He’s been involved with such champions as Evander Holyfield, Arturo Gatti, Hector “Macho” Camacho, and Lennox Lewis.Tim Smith is a former sportswriter for the New York Daily News and the New York Times. He has written about boxing, baseball, the NFL, and the NBA.Evander Holyfield is considered one of the greatest boxers of all-time. He is an Olympic medalist, winning the bronze during the 1984 Summer Games, and is the only four-time world heavyweight champion in boxing history. Considered one of the 100 greatest punchers of all time by Ring magazine, “The Real Deal” is most famously known for his two victories over Mike Tyson.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.6.2016
• Co-Autor: Tim Smith
• Vorwort: Evander Holyfield
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Kampfsport / Selbstverteidigung
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Andrew Golota • athl • athletics books • Autobiography • best boxers • Biography • Boxer • Boxing • Boxing Association • Boxing Autobiography • Boxing biography • Boxing books • boxing business • boxing champions • boxing champs • boxing coaches • boxing defense • boxing hall of fame • boxing history • Boxing legends • boxing memoir • Boxing Olympics • boxing power • boxing promotions • boxing ring • boxing skills • boxing stories • boxing trainers • boxing training • Ellis Island • Enes Duva • Fighters • Fighting • gift for sports fan • greatest boxers • Hall of Fame • heavyweight • Immigrants • immigration books • immigration boxing hall of famers • immigration experience • immigration in America • immigration memoir • immigration stories • immigration United States • Italian Immigrants • Lightweight • Lou Duva • Main Event Promotions • Memoir • Mike Tyson • New Jersey • Ricky Womack • Riot at the Garden • sports autobiography • sports biography • sports books • sports encyclopedia • sports facts • sports lover • sports memoir • sports stats • Sports Training • sports trivia • Sugar Ray Leonard • Thomas Hearns
• ISBN-10: 1-61321-876-1 / 1613218761
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61321-876-1 / 9781613218761