Published by Mainstream Publishing, part of Mainstream
Format: Paperback
£7.99
Author:
Thomas Myler
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9781845962043
£7.99
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EAN: 9781845962043
Published: 7 Feb 2008
In Boxing's Hall of Shame, Thomas Myler tells the inside stories of the real fight game. He reveals the sport's heroes and villains, mobsters and fixers, its shame and sorrows, providing the reader with a ringside seat at boxing's greatest and most controversial contests along the way.
This no-holds-barred volume includes the enraged Mike Tyson taking a chunk out of Evander Holyfield's ear; Roberto Duran's baffling retirement against Sugar Ray Leonard; the Riddick Bowe-Andrew Golota fiasco that ended in an ugly full-scale riot; Sonny Liston - whose mobster background was not unknown to boxing authorities - going down under Muhammad Ali's phantom punch; and Jake LaMotta's botched dive against Billy Fox, which turned the 'Raging Bull' into boxing's bad boy overnight.
Boxing's Hall of Shame sensationally revisits the boxing scandals, the fixed fights and the powerful influence of the underworld, taking the reader behind the scenes of the glove sport to reveal the shady underbelly of boxing through the ages.
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While Myler's vast wealth of knowledge of boxing and his ability to probe its underbelly are hugely impressive, his blow-by-blow accounts of the fights make the book all the more readable . . . As an exposé, it's a knockout
- Irish Mail on Sunday
An irresistible read
- Irish Independent
The tales leave a feeling of unearthing a whole new side to the fight game
- Scotland on Sunday
Myler is particularly adept at providing readers with a bigger picture, adding background, names and locations away from the ring which have had a direct influence upon outcomes inside of it
- Yorkshire Evening Post
Myler tells each story with vigour and diligence
- Daily Telegraph
Thomas Myler is the boxing writer for the Irish Independent and the Irish correspondent for Boxing News. He has written extensively on world boxing and is considered one of Ireland's leading historians on the sport.
