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  • Money

    The Life and Fast Times of Floyd Mayweather

    by Tris Dixon ...
    This edition is fully updated to include Mayweather’s battle with UFC star Conor McGregor.Floyd ‘Money’ Mayweather is one of the most successful professional boxers of all time, with fifty professional victories in a glittering unbeaten ring career that has spanned two decades. Mayweather was born into a boxing family that was barely surviving on the poverty line. His father had enjoyed
 a ... Read more

    $9.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Warrior

    (Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Sports Book Awards 2023)

    by Tris Dixon ...
    **SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2023**Matthew Saad Muhammad was arguably the most exciting fighter of all time. He was WBC light-heavyweight champion from 1979 to 1981, but it wasn't what he did that captured the hearts of fight fans, it was how he did it. Fight after fight was war after war. He would get beaten up, cut, dropped and virtually knocked out only to astonishingly ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Road to Nowhere

    A Journey Through Boxing's Wastelands

    by Tris Dixon ...
    A trip across America to track down the great fighters from yesteryear who vanished from the limelight, and hear their incredible storiesIn the era of boxing's pay-per-view superstars, Tris Dixon invested in a Greyhound bus pass and spent several months traversing America on a shoestring budget, tracking down fighters from yesteryear who had vanished from the limelight. Venturing from New York to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Damage

    The Untold Story of Brain Trauma in Boxing

    by Tris Dixon ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Cowley ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 46 min

    It's an old story—a fighter gains fame, drives fast cars, makes piles of cash, and dates beautiful women. Then comes the fall—booze, drugs, depression, poverty, illness. This dark narrative has been playing out for a hundred years.Doctors first identified "Punch Drunk Syndrome" in 1928. It later became known as "Dementia Pugilistica." Today, we call it CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy). The ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    A dramatic and terrifying memoir of a ‘catfish’ scenario – when a woman meets a man online but nothing is what it seems.25-year-old Megan Henley put her five-year-old daughter to bed one evening and switched on her laptop. A Facebook ‘friend request’ seemed to be genuine. There were a few common friends and very similar interests, so Megan accepted.With that one simple act, she changed her life ... Read more

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  • A Christmas Angel

    True Stories of Gifts from Angels at Special Times

    by Jacky Newcomb ...
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    True-life stories of angels showing their care and love for us at a special time of year.Afterlife expert, Jacky Newcomb, tells the heartwarming stories of angels visiting and giving hope and love at this special time of year.At a time when the loss of our loved ones is felt the most, here are the stories that will inspire and prompt the true meaning of Christmas. ... Read more

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  • Skin Deep

    All She Wanted Was a Mummy, But Was She Too Ugly to Be Loved?

    by Casey Watson ...
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  • How Did All This Happen?

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  • Undisputed Truth

    “Raw, powerful and disturbing—a head-spinning take on Mr. Tyson's life.”—Wall Street JournalPhilosopher, Broadway headliner, fighter, felon—Mike Tyson has defied stereotypes, expectations, and a lot of conventional wisdom during his three decades in the public eye. Bullied as a boy in the toughest, poorest neighborhood in Brooklyn, Tyson grew up to become one of the most ferocious boxers of all ... Read more

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