Combat Sports & Self-defence

Each year, readers, writers, and critics alike anticipate Thomas Hausers newest collection of articles about the contemporary boxing scene, where h...

While many of his peers began their careers as farmers and factory workers, Leo Florian Houck became a boxing sensation at age 14, enabling him...

New York Times and Wall Street Journal Bestseller! Pro wrestler and political commentator Tyrus goes deep into his wild but triumphant life story,...

Fighting sports and church may seem an unusual combination yet modern ministries have embraced them as means for evangelism and social outreach. Wh...

For six decades the World Colored Heavyweight Championship was a useful tool of racial oppression--the existence of the title far more important to...

This second collection of the author's 24 exclusive interviews with boxing insiders features some of the most influential personalities in ring ...

Many books have discussed boxing in the ancient world, but this is the first to describe how boxing was reborn in the modern world. Modern boxin...

Barbaric. Savage. Violent. Words often used by critics to describe the sport of mixed martial arts. To this can be added lucrative, popular and ...

Few stones are left unturned in this account of the life of a champion professional wrestler old-time fans and wrestling historians remember well f...

At over six and a half feet tall and nearly 300 pounds, heavyweight champion Primo Carnera was a giant for his times, but today the Ambling Alp ...

Step back into the ring and recapture the golden days of wrestling as we look back on the legendary action figures from the early 1990s. Check out ...

NAACP Image Award Finalist, and Winner of the 2016 Friends of American Writers Literary Award and the Christopher Award In the spirit of The Blind ...

Between defeat by Trevor Berbick in December 1981 and lighting the Olympic flame in Atlanta in July 1996, Muhammad Ali spent the 15 most turbulent ...

Oscar Battling Nelson (1882-1954) was perhaps the toughest professional boxer ever to enter the ring. Although a Hall of Fame inductee, Nelson r...

This is the complete story of boxing from the pugilists of the classical amphitheatres to the heroes of today. This is the ultimate companion for a...