- Boxing Book
- by Graeme Kent
- real truth about boxing
- must have book
- Great read
The Little Book of Boxing Description
Boxing has a long and eventful history and its drama, excitement and humour are covered in this fascinating account of the noble - and sometimes ignoble - art all over the world. From the bare-knuckle days when the Duke of Cumberland callously abandoned his protégé Jack Broughton when the latter could no longer fight on because he was blind, to 1964, when the charismatic Muhammad Ali knocked out Sonny Liston with a ‘phantom punch’ that no one in the audience saw thrown, and the advent in the twenty-first century of the dreaded ‘Beast from the East’, the 7ft tall Russian Nikolai Valuev who powered his inexorable way to the world heavyweight title, this book presents a vivid picture of the sport rightly known as the hardest game. Gallant stands, spectacular ‘dives’ audacious cons and heartbreaking defeats combine to present boxing in all its multi-faceted confusion and glory.
On the back' of The Little Book of Boxing
"You win some, you throw some!'
Jake LaMotta, world middleweight champion
'He was the perfect combination - showman, fighter and rat!'
Manager Jack McCoy on fighter Art 'Golden Boy' Aragon
Want to know the real truth about boxing in all its staggering detail? The champs, the chumps, the thrills, spills and fixes, the facts and stats, the heroes and the villains and the downright eccentrics - they are all here. An unrivalled feast of the sport's drama, excitement and ribaldry, The Little Book of Boxing is a must-have for any fight fan. Find out about:
the middleweight who had 60 fights in three days the referee who knocked a fighter out
the novice who was paid with half a salami six knockdowns in a round, and not a punch thrown
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