Boxing : a concise history of the sweet science /

Sports fans have long been fascinated with boxing and the brutal demonstration of physical and psychological conflict. Accounts of the sport appear as far back as the third millennium BC, and Greek and Roman sculptors depicted the athletic ideals of the ancient era in the form of boxers. In the pres...

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Main Author: Gems, Gerald R.
Corporate Author: Ebook Library
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Rowman & Lttlefield Education, [2014]
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