On December 11, 1981, Muhammad Ali slumped on a chair in the
cramped, windowless locker room of a municipal baseball field
outside Nassau. A phalanx of sportswriters had pushed and shoved
their way into this tiny, breeze-blocked space. In this most
unlikely of settings, they had come to record the last moments of
the most storied of all boxing careers. They had come to intrude
upon the grief. "It's over," mumbled Ali. "It's over." The show
that had entertained and wowed from Zaire to Dublin, from Hamburg
to Manila, finally ended its twenty-one-year run, the last
performance not so much off-Broadway, more amateur theatre in the
boondocks. In Drama in the Bahamas, Dave Hannigan tells the
occasionally poignant, often troubling, yet always entertaining
story behind Ali's last bout. Through interviews with many of those
involved, he discovers exactly how and why, a few weeks short of
his fortieth birthday, a seriously diminished Ali stepped through
the ropes one more time to get beaten up by Trevor Berbick. "Two
billion people will be conscious of my fight," said Ali, trotting
out the old braggadocio about an event so lacking in luster that a
cow bell was pressed in to service to signal the start and end of
each round. How had it come to this? Why was he still boxing?
Hannigan answers those questions and many more, offering a unique
and telling glimpse into the most fascinating sportsman of the
twentieth century in the last, strange days of his fistic life.
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