Contest of Champions Vol. 1

Author: Al Ewing
Publisher: Marvel Entertainment
ISBN: 1302485571
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 215

Book Description
You've played the game, now watch the action play out across page after page of super hero showdowns! Welcome to the Battlerealm - a broken section of space-time where cosmic beings gamble for ultimate power using unwilling pawns drawn from across the multiverse. Your favorites must fight for their lives and a chance to return to their Earth. Iron Man! Venom! Gamora! Ares! Plus sensational breakout stars-in-waiting like Outlaw, White Fox and the Guillotines! And don't miss the incredible battle between the man who trained Daredevil and the woman who loved Matt Murdock: Stick versus... Bullseye?! But what roles in this celestial game are the Collector and the Maestro playing? And, the biggest question of all - who will survive the Contest of Champions?

The Champion

Author: V I O S H E D
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The four-time heavyweight world boxing champion, Marcelo Walker. He has it all, fame, money, faithful friends, and, most of all, his wife, Mandy, and the man that took him out of the streets, Richard. Who have been by his side through thick and thin. Marcelo is the apple of their eyes, and they would do everything for him. But he lost everything overnight. Through self-destruction, Marcelo's life spiralled out of control. All the demons from his past tormented him. But he finally realizes he can no longer live the way he is. Hurting himself, and all those around him. Now, he knows he is about to face the toughest fight of his entire life. It is up to Marcelo now to rebuild and regain what he lost.

A Champion's Last Fight

Author: Nick Parkinson
Publisher: Pitch Publishing
ISBN: 9781785311642
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Drink, drugs, depression, sex scandals, financial meltdowns, and serious health issues are just some of the fights British boxers have faced once they've quit the ring. A Champion's Last Fight examines just why and exactly how some of Britain's greatest boxers have self-destructed in retirement. It tells the stories of former world champions who have struggled in life away from the spotlights and the glare that comes with boxing success, delving into the post-boxing lives and tribulations of Benny Lynch, Randolph Turpin, Freddie Mills, Ken Buchanan, John Conteh, Alan Minter, Charlie Magri, Frank Bruno, Nigel Benn, Chris Eubank, Naseem Hamed, Scott Harrison, Herbie Hide, Joe Calzaghe, and Ricky Hatton. With interviews and new revelations, A Champion's Last Fight is an emotional journey through boxing history that examines the struggles many former champions experience after hanging up the gloves--and asks what, if anything, can be done to help the nation's boxing greats adjust to life away from the ring?

Boxing Champions of the Heavyweight Division 1882–2010

Author: Ronald J. Curtis
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1453514686
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 297

Book Description
The heavyweight division is the top prize of all the different weight divisions in boxing. There were many fighters who were short, tall, big, small, great, and not so great. There were some who were better known than kings, presidents, or other leaders. Ronald Curtis will tell you, in a short and concise manner, how they got there and what made these fighters—champions.

Floyd Patterson

Author: W. K. Stratton
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0151014302
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 297

Book Description
This knockout biography follows boxing legend Floyd Patterson, civil rights activist, national icon, and the youngest man to win the World Heavyweight Champion title, and the first to ever win the title twice.

Contest Of Champions Vol. 2

Author: Al Ewing
Publisher: Marvel Entertainment
ISBN: 1302494511
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 135

Book Description
Collects Contest of Champions (2015) #7-10 and Punisher (1987) #64. Earths impossible-tackling super-team has entered the game and that means its time for Ultimate fighting! But when Captain Marvel, Black Panther and the rest of the Ultimates discover the Contest of Champions, they dont take kindly to it! Is this the end of Maestros dream of power? Or the start of a whole new level of crazy? Crazy sounds right when the Symbioids join the battle. Theyre half Venom, half Void and all deadly! Then, what do you get when you cross CONTEST OF CHAMPIONS with the original CIVIL WAR? Fights! Lots and lots of fights! Because a new team is coming and they are very pro-registration! Their next mission: exterminate the renegade champions scattered across Battleworld! When Maestro and Iron Patriot share the same stage, which megalomaniac will reign supreme? Plus: the classic first appearance of CONTEST OF CHAMPIONS contestant Nigel Higgins a.k.a. Outlaw, the British Punisher!

Champion

Author: Craig Johnson
Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM
ISBN: 0785218416
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 204

Book Description
A Celebration of Everyone Who Fulfills Their Purpose Through Unexpected Challenges Until two years of age, Craig and Samantha’s son Connor was just like other kids—playful, verbal, and affectionate. Then everything changed. He stopped talking, displayed behavioral problems, and withdrew into his own world. The official diagnosis—autism. Faced with seemingly insurmountable odds, Craig and Samantha refused to believe a meaningful life for Connor was impossible. God confirmed their faith by revealing to Craig that Connor would one day touch the lives of thousands of people around the world. Craig and Samantha held that unlikely promise in their hearts during the agonizing years ahead. Champion is a spellbinding chronicle of the twists and turns of Connor’s journey—guided by his parent’s steadfast hope in God’s promises. Through the unexpected breaking of their spirits, the Holy Spirit was poured out, culminating in a miracle that has launched a global ministry to the disabled.

Fights for the Championship and Celebrated Prize Battles, Or, Accounts of All the Battles for the Championship

Author: Frank L. Dowling
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 424

Book Description

Stars in the Ring: Jewish Champions in the Golden Age of Boxing

Author: Mike Silver
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1630761400
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 383

Book Description
For more than sixty years—from the 1890s to the 1950s—boxing was an integral part of American popular culture and a major spectator sport rivaling baseball in popularity. More Jewish athletes have competed as boxers than all other professional sports combined; in the period from 1901 to 1939, 29 Jewish boxers were recognized as world champions and more than 160 Jewish boxers ranked among the top contenders in their respective weight divisions. Stars in the Ring,by renowned boxing historian Mike Silver, presents this vibrant social history in the first illustrated encyclopedic compendium of its kind.

The First Black Boxing Champions

Author: Colleen Aycock
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786461888
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 303

Book Description
This volume presents fifteen chapters of biography of African American and black champions and challengers of the early prize ring. They range from Tom Molineaux, a slave who won freedom and fame in the ring in the early 1800s; to Joe Gans, the first African American world champion; to the flamboyant Jack Johnson, deemed such a threat to white society that film of his defeat of former champion and "Great White Hope" Jim Jeffries was banned across much of the country. Photographs, period drawings, cartoons, and fight posters enhance the biographies. Round-by-round coverage of select historic fights is included, as is a foreword by Hall-of-Fame boxing announcer Al Bernstein.