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No Middle Ground - Eubank, Benn, Watson and the golden era of British boxing (Paperback)
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No Middle Ground - Eubank, Benn, Watson and the golden era of British boxing (Paperback)
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Loot Price R331
Discovery Miles 3 310
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2014 marked the 25th anniversary of the first bout in the epic
battle between Nigel Benn, Michael Watson and Chris Eubank to
contest the WBO Middleweight Championship that would keep us
entertained for five manic, magnificent and ultimately tragic
years, marking the start of an epic saga in British Boxing. The
fight took place a month after the Hillsborough disaster and was
screened live on TV, in a slot now dominated by talent contests. It
was a time when kids could stay up late to watch 12 rounds of
madness. It was also the last Golden Era of British Boxing. While
for us these greats of British boxing provided entertainment away
from the hooliganism of football, for them it was much more
personal. Rivalries exist in every sport, but their loathing was
real and in the ring it nearly became deadly. But this is what the
swaggering early-90's Britain tuned in for. These three fighters
were Britain's alpha-ego. They made the country proud. No Middle
Ground takes us back to the years when these boxers pounded the
heavy bags and tells their story as well as that of Britain's love
affair with the sport, and how these fight came to define them and
us. In tracing the boxers' journeys to centre-stage Sanjeev Shetty
reveals the story of the dark side of Thatcher's nation - the
blood, the sweat, the dangerous hatred that fuelled these men, and
the ultimate price they would pay for their moment in the sun.
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