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Roberto Duran, Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Sugar Ray Leonard, and Thomas "Hit Man" Hearns all formed the pantheon of boxing greats during the late 1970s and early 1980s-before the pay-per-view model, when prize fights were telecast on network television and still captured the nation's attention. Championship bouts during this era were replete with revenge and fury, often pitting one of these storied fighters against another. From training camps to locker...
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1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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Charley has become the middleweight champion of the world by winning a "fixed" fight. In his devious climb to the top, Charley has become hard and arrogant, and has estranged both his mother and the girl he loves.
8) Southpaw
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1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Billy "The Great" Hope, reigning Light Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World, seemingly has it all: an impressive career, a beautiful and loving wife, an adorable daughter, and a lavish lifestyle. When tragedy strikes and his lifelong manager and friend leaves him behind, Hope hits rock bottom and turns to an unlikely savior at a run-down local gym: Tick Wills, a retired fighter and trainer to the city's toughest amateur boxers.
9) Blood sport
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"In this high-interest novel for teen readers, Jason is determined to find out the truth about his sister's death."--
Jason is sure his sister, Becca, was murdered, but he's the only one who thinks so. After finding a photograph Becca kept hidden, he decides to infiltrate a boxing gym to prove that she didn't die accidentally. As a transgender kid, Jason's been fighting for as long as he can remember, and those skills are going to come in handy as...
12) Rocky III
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1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Rocky becomes world famous, scoring ten consecutive wins. But after suffering a humiliating defeat against Clubber Lang, he considers hanging up his gloves. With encouragement from his old nemesis, Apollo Creed, Rocky strives to regain the "eye of the tiger" before confronting Lang in a rematch.
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"While lifting weights in the Seldon Jackson College gymnasium on a rainy autumn night, Jaed Coffin heard the distinctive whacking sound of sparring boxers down the hall. A year out of college, he had been biding his time as a tutor at a local high school in Sitka, Alaska, without any particular life plan. That evening, Coffin joined a ragtag boxing club. For the first time, he felt like he fit in. Coffin washed up in Alaska after a forty-day solo...
14) Rocky Balboa
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1 videodisc (approximately 102 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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A former heavyweight boxing champion comes out of retirement to fight a 10 round exhibition bout against an opponent who is thirty years younger than he is.
16) Chasing Pacquiao
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261 pages ; 22 cm
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When Bobby is unwillingly outed he turns to boxing, finding a hero in Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao, but when Pacquiao publicly denounces homosexuality, Bobby must discover a hero within himself.
Bobby's motto is self preservation. That's how he survived his notoriously violent high school unscathed. Being out and queer would put an unavoidable target on his back, especially in a Filipino community that frowns on homosexuality. When Bobby is unwilling...
17) The set-up
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Film noir classic collection volume 1
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1 videodisc (72 min.) : DVD video, sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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An over-the-hill boxer thinks he can still win a bout, despite doubts from his wife and his manager. He goes into his next fight determined to beat his opponent, not realizing his manager has taken money for a 'dive' from a tough gambler. Heightening the tension, the film takes place over the course of 72 minutes, its approximate running time.
18) Buffalo girls
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1 videodisc (66 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Watch an unflinching look at Thailand's underground world of child boxers, of which there are over 30,000 girls. The film tells the story of two eight-year-old girls who are professional Muay Thai prizefighters.
19) Facing Ali
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1 videodisc (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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Ten boxing champs pay tribute to Ali and discuss their encounters with him in and out of the ring.
20) The contender
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5 audio discs (5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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A Harlem high school dropout escapes from a gang of punks into a boxing gym, where he learns that being a contender is hard and often discouraging work, but that you don't know anything until you try.
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