Combat Sports & Self-defence

Whether you're serious about boxing or just serious about getting in shape this book will help.

In Win or Learn, John Kavanagh tells his own remarkable life story - which is at the heart of the story of the extraordinary explosion of MMA in Ireland and globally. Employing the motto 'win or learn', Kavanagh has become a guru to young men and women seeking to master the arts of combat.

'I have this one term for the kind of woman my mother raised me not to be, and I call it a `Do-Nothing B-tch'.

This book tells the stories of Ireland's boxers who have represented their country at the highest levels in the sport.

This book tells the stories of Ireland's boxers who have represented their country at the highest levels in the sport. Hardback edition.

The first biography of former world boxing champion Bernard Dunne, charting the highs and lows of his career.

Adolf Hitler understood the importance of sport, and exercised his malign and dangerous influence to try to co-opt it for the Nazi cause. He intended to own the Olympic movement, housing it permanently in Berlin from 1940 in a stadium seating 450,000 people.

2012 1st Edition Hardback

Love him or loathe him, Chris Eubank is one of life's more eccentric personalities who has transcended the world of boxing and established himself as a media celebrity and role model to millions of fans the world over.

From the Extended Catalogue - will take two week for delivery.

This is the story of a boxer who fought against overwhelming odds to escape the mean streets of Belfast to reach the heights of his sport

From one of the major innovators of New Journalism, Norman Mailer's The Fight is the real-life story of a clash between two of the world's greatest boxers, both in and out of the ring, published in Penguin Modern Classics.