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Once There Were Giants - The Golden Age of Heavyweight Boxing (Paperback)
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Once There Were Giants - The Golden Age of Heavyweight Boxing (Paperback)
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**New edition updated with a foreword by Manny Pacquiao.** A
celebration and memorial of the greatest era of heavyweight
fighters from 1962 to 1997, as witnessed ringside by an
International Boxing Hall of Fame sportswriter. Once upon a time,
of all the memories made in ballparks and arenas from California to
New York, there was nothing to rival that magic moment that could
grab a heavyweight fight crowd by its collective jugular vein and
trigger a tsunami of raw emotion before a single punch had even
been thrown. That's the way it was when the heavyweight giants
danced in the boxing ring during the golden eras of the greats Ali,
Frazier, Holmes, and Spinks, to name a few. There will never again
be a heavyweight cycle like the one that began when Sonny Liston
stopped Floyd Patterson and ended when Mike Tyson bit a slice out
of Evander Holyfield's ear; when no ersatz drama, smoke, mirrors,
and noise followed a fighter's entry into the ring; when the crowds
knew that these men were not actors on a stage but rather giants in
a ring with a single purpose-to fight other giants. By the
ringside, acclaimed sportswriter Jerry Izenberg watched history as
it was being made during those legendary days, witnessing fights
like the Thrilla in Manila and the Rumble in the Jungle and
preserving them in punchy yet tremendous prose. Delivering both his
eyewitness accounts and revelatory back stories of this greatest
era of heavyweight boxing, Izenberg invites readers to a place of
recollection. Once There Were Giants is his memorial to this
extraordinary time, the likes of which we shall never see again.
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