The Sweet Science Goes Sour: How Scandal Brought Boxing to Its Knees
In The Sweet Science Goes Sour, boxing writer Thomas Myler recounts some of the sport’ s most controversial fixes, fakes, and frauds. Like a ringside seat at the sport’ s greatest and most troubled bouts, the book brings to life boxing’ s many outrageous characters. They include Primo Carnera, tragically manipulated and ultimately destroyed by mobsters; Sonny Liston, who lost to Muhammad Ali because of a suspicious phantom punch; and Roberto Duran’ s, who was involved in a baffling surrender to Sugar Ray Leonard. Here too are notorious matchups like Riddick Bowe versus Andrew Golota, which ended in an unprecedented full-scale riot at Madison…
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Weitere Autoren: Sugar, Bert Randolph (Solist)
- ISBN: 978-1-55365-233-5
- EAN: 9781553652335
- Produktnummer: 2530230
- Verlag: Greystone Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 258 S.
- Masse: H21.7 cm x B14.1 cm x D1.7 cm 376 g
- Gewicht: 376
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