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Christy Martin

Fighting for Survival

2022

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9 The Fight That Legitimized Me and Women’s Boxing S. 105-118

„… 105C h a p t e r n i n ethe Fight that legitimized Me and women’s BoxingYou never know when your …” „… mil-lions of people around the world. That was important for me and for women’s boxing.fighting for …” „… . And that was the best thing that ever hap-pened to women’s boxing.I decided to go in for the kill, and …”

Index S. 273-286

„… , 40, 93, 179; writers about, 159. See also control, in boxing; female boxingboxing, women in, 1–2, 39 …” „… , of Martin, J., 244appearances, on television and radio, 121–22Arce, Jorge, 212art, in boxing, 159Arum …” „… , L. and Martin, C., fight, 197–98; during Anani and Martin, C., fight, 153–56; in boxing, 143Bryant …”

14 All Done with Don King, But Not with Fighting, Inside and Outside the Ring S. 169-184

„… career, for a long time the people in power seemed to just wish I’d go away and take women’s boxing with …” „… Sports decided to do a women’s version of its popular boxing video game, and they paid me well to get …” „… piece about her and women’s boxing, and I guess they’d developed a friend-ship of some sort. Dunn wrote …”

Preface

„… Legitimized Me and Women’s Boxing 10510 Bright Lights, Big City 11911 Big Fights, Ear Bites 13312 Chasing a …” „… great for me to watch her stand up for women in the sport of boxing, and now she is doing the same for …” „… 2/10/22 11:45 AM Fighting ForSurvivalMy Journey through Boxing Fame, Abuse, Murder, and …”

5 “Want to Box, Girl?” S. 53-66

„… personal issues I was facing. At that point, I didn’t even know women’s boxing was a thing, probably …” „… because it really wasn’t. It wasn’t like you saw women boxing on television, like you do today. You didn’t …” „… boxing. The B side puts on a chest protector and doesn’t ask questions.The promoter owned what was then …”

7 What Kind of Proposal Was That? S. 81-92

„… knocked out six straight women in 13 months and began to create a little buzz around me in local boxing …” „… Jim said no, and I went along with him, thinking he knew more than I did about the world of boxing.He …” „… kept insisting that if I went to work, he wouldn’t train me anymore, and I’d be out of boxing. The …”

6 Meeting My Mentor . . . and My Menace S. 67-80

„… “pig” at the end, he took it personally. Women and boxing were never supposed to mix in his mind, and …” „… didn’t feel like his opinion of women in boxing was changing, but I did feel like I was improving, and …” „… just that he didn’t want me around. He didn’t want any women around. At least not inside a boxing gym.I …”

15 Down for the Count and Ashamed of How I Got There S. 185-200

„… about her being the future of women’s boxing, and I told the reporter, “I’m the past, the present, and …” „… fixated on the fact it was a big moment for women’s boxing and for Christy Martin. I was getting older …” „… lot of turning points in my life, and it’s clear one of them was no longer boxing for Don King. When I …”

10 Bright Lights, Big City S. 119-0

„… taking notice, and some attitudes were changing. By the end of 1996, USA Boxing held its first women’s …” „… step backwards, but he never did. He was supportive of me and women’s boxing and ready to help me if I …” „… boxing history in our 1996 fight. it made me millions and legitimized women’s boxing to the public …”

1 Dead on the Floor S. 1-14

„… world. By then people had come to accept women in boxing and MMA as legitimate athletes. Unfortunately …” „… bullet hole in my chest. I was still the World Boxing Council women’s super-welterweight champion and the …” „… thanksgiving. True, it was the day I nearly died like so many other battered and abused women do each year in …”

4 How’d I Get Myself into a Toughman Contest? S. 39-52

„… pursued boxing. I didn’t know women were trying to make a career out of boxing in 1987, and the real truth …” „… that appealed to us, and one of them was Toughman, which was kind of a regional boxing tournament for …” „… when a guy named Art Dore and his friend, Dean Oswald, got tired of hearing local boxing fans fighting …”

About the Authors S. 287-288

„… history and widely regarded as the woman who legitimized women’s participation in boxing and other combat …” „… sports. When she began her career, women’s boxing was banned in most countries around the world and many …” „… Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame, and in 2020 was among the first three women fighters enshrined in the …”

16 No Place to Run, No Place to Hide S. 201-214

„… that had nothing to do with boxing.In nearly 20 years of marriage, Jim and I didn’t have that many …” „… career. Arum was ready to promote a fight with one of the few women I truly disliked in boxing—Lucia …” „… focused on boxing. I was training lightly and working with Roland Bryant, the kid I’d signed on to manage …”

12 Chasing a Million Dollar Payday . . . and Not Getting It S. 145-156

„… life, because there had been such a negative reaction to me and to women’s boxing for so long. But I …” „… sun in boxing, but I was a star. Now he was gone, and I was unsure what the next step would be.For …” „… glamour and the payday, but to me the Garden was the mecca of boxing. True fighters understand that the …”

8 Enter Don King S. 93-104

„… sport, is difficult to fathom today. He turned 90 in 2021 and hasn’t been involved in a major boxing …” „… from someone with juice. And in those days, nobody had more juice in boxing than Don King—which is why …” „… most devastating body shots in boxing, and here I am showing King mine?King watched for a couple …”

11 Big Fights, Ear Bites S. 133-144

„… women’s boxing.I wasn’t aware Jerry had called King’s chief matchmaker, Bobby Goodman, trying to pitch a …” „… still “the man” in women’s boxing.After I signed, I said, “If I can hold up, he’d probably fight me …” „… is a Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame in Vegas, and there’s the World Boxing Hall of Fame in Los Angeles …”

18 A Champion Again, But Not for Long S. 225-234

„… Burchfield called out of the blue and offered me a shot at the World Boxing Council women’s …” „… boxing ring came the way the first one had—as a complete surprise to me and probably to most of the …” „… and I left for Canastota, New York, the home of the International Boxing Hall of Fame. I loved that …”

17 Sex, Drugs, and Videotapes S. 215-224

„… four women experience severe intimate partner physical violence and/or stalking with outcomes such as …” „… people were abused. That number is unacceptable.Approximately four and a half million women alive today …” „… within a month.“Women will often underestimate their risk of being killed,” NCADV literature says, and …”

21 Necessary Endings, New Beginnings S. 261-272

„… reality. I could make no excuses. I didn’t deserve to win, and I couldn’t go on boxing if I couldn’t beat …” „… batting an eye. That really warmed my heart to see those young women free to be together and other people …” „… message to women suffering like I had. You do not have to be a victim. There’s a way out, and you don’t …”

20 One Life Ends and So Does Another S. 249-260

„… boxing ring up ahead.Instead of being totally focused on my job and on what Stone would bring to the ring …” „… long in boxing, and I knew well how to do it. So, I was shocked when the referee jumped between us and …” „… trade publications, and she started doing some boxing training to prepare herself, but in the end, she …”

2 Coal Miner’s Daughter S. 15-28

„… , I’ll tell you that, and neither is boxing.Growing up I was always with my dad. I threw baseballs with …” „… high school and college sports and, finally, from boxing. Winning isn’t simple, and it definitely isn’t …” „… continued progress. Certainly, that’s my hope for women athletes, gay and straight. Just judge us on our …”

3 The Thing We Carry, the Things We Hide S. 29-38

„… football coach saw me and told the women’s basketball coach he should take a look at me. I was in the gym a …” „… also dated women, so I went for it, and pretty quickly I was into a new relationship, and we started …” „… come out to my family? For the same reason so many young gay men and women don’t to this day. When’s …”

19 Comeback to Nowhere S. 235-248

„… specializes in high-profile women’s cases. Donna and I didn’t tell Sherry I was going to meet with Allred …” „… , four stab wounds, and one recovery from cocaine addiction since I’d last been inside a boxing ring. If …” „… army of doctors and nurses surrounding you trying to keep you alive, and a lady detective who wants …”

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STADION Volume 42 (2016) Issue 1 ISSN Online: 2942-3430

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Dario Nardini Gouren, the Breton Way to Wrestle S. 14-31

„… (Fédération de Gouren) logo. Finally, wrestlers leave the arena and the competition starts. Women start first …” „… me. Indeed, I have been practicing judo since I was a child, and when I learned about the existence …” „… Bromberger.3 It is an ethnographic encounter in a shared field of gestural practices that might be seen and …”

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Jürgen Wick, Frank Lehmann, Marc-Oliver Löw - Olympiaanalyse Tokio 2020

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Jürgen Wick (ed.), Frank Lehmann (ed.), Marc-Oliver Löw (ed.)

Olympiaanalyse Tokio 2020

Series: Schriftenreihe für Angewandte Trainingswissenschaft

Volume 2022

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Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis S. 1-10

„… Müller 123 Analysis of national and international developmental trends in women’s track cycling …” „… , vorbehalten. Kein Teil des Werkes darf in irgendeiner Form – durch Fotokopie, Mikrofilm oder ein anderes …” „… – Selected cross-sports results and conclusions from a training science perspective Matthias Englert …”

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Walter M. Iber, Johannes Gießauf, Harald Knoll, Peter Mauritsch - Sport, Prestige, Profit

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Walter M. Iber (ed.), Johannes Gießauf (ed.), Harald Knoll (ed.), Peter Mauritsch (ed.)

Sport, Prestige, Profit

Series: Sonderband Stadion

Volume 2024

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Olaf Stieglitz Self-Made Men & Women: Prestige, Profit & Geschlecht im US-Sport der 1890er bis 1920er Jahre S. 61-70

„… .Self-Made Men & Women694 Levine P.: A.G. Spalding and the Rise of Baseball. The Promise of American Sport …” „… Magazine and the Empowerment of Women. In: Media History Monographs Jg. 13, H. 2 (2011), S. 1–14.10 …” „… Women’s Swimming, 1870–1926. Jefferson 2011; Catapano P.: ,True Perfect Woman’. Annette Kellerman and the …”

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Bieke Gils "The Only Race Aviatrix in the World": A Tribute to Bessie Coleman (1892-1926) S. 55-82

„… won the first (and extremely hazardous) eight-day women's crosscountry flying race from Santa Monica …” „… newspapers that extensively reported on the stunts, records and races of Earhart and other white women …” „… politics of women's bodies, the ways in which characteristics of race, class and gender facilitated or …”

Henning Eichberg Sporting History, Moving Democracy, Challenging Body Culture – the Development of a Danish Approach S. 149-167

„… , the middle classes – mostly the men, only few women and young people – met in socially exclusive clubs …” „… Wars connected functionalism and enthusiasm for technology with jazz, boxing, expressive gymnastics …” „… : women gymnastics and women sports. Feminism31 provided significant impetus to gender studies, in …”

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