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The Sweet Science Goes Sour - How Scandal Brought Boxing to Its Knees (Paperback) Loot Price: R294
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The Sweet Science Goes Sour - How Scandal Brought Boxing to Its Knees (Paperback): Thomas Myler

The Sweet Science Goes Sour - How Scandal Brought Boxing to Its Knees (Paperback)

Thomas Myler; Foreword by Bert Randolph Sugar

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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 Square Garden. There's also Mike Tyson's infamous ear-munch on a shocked Evander Holyfield. Based on solid research and written in a dramatic, "you-are-there" style, this book pulls back the curtain on the squared circle to reveal the seamier side of the sweet science.

General

Imprint: Greystone Books
Country of origin: Canada
Release date: December 2006
First published: December 2006
Authors: Thomas Myler
Foreword by: Bert Randolph Sugar
Dimensions: 217 x 141 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 978-1-55365-233-5
Categories: Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Combat sports & self-defence > Boxing
LSN: 1-55365-233-9
Barcode: 9781553652335

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