The Greatest Fights... That Never Were

Matthew Bazell (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2014
New Holland Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-74257-558-2 (ISBN)

Keine Verlagsinformationen verfügbar

Artikel merken

Sports fans fondly recall the greatest boxing matches of all times. The author talks about the unique culture of professional boxing where corruption, fear, racism, and even friendship, prevented many great fights from ever happening. It looks at the lost match-ups over the years and the careers of: Muhammad Ali, Larry Holmes, and Lennox Lewis.

Sports fans fondly recall the greatest boxing matches of all time, but an obsessive conversation among fight fans will also focus on those bouts that 'should have been', but, for a variety of reasons, never happened. In The Greatest Boxing Matches That Never Were, the author talks about the unique culture of professional boxing where corruption, fear, racism and even friendship, prevented many great fight contests from ever happening.

Born in 1977, Matthew Bazell is a London-based journalist and author (Invasion and Deportation [2000], Theatre of Silence: The Lost Soul of Football [2008]. A lifelong follower of Arsenal, his second team are the mighty Darlington! A keen boxing historian and general sports enthusiast, Matthew has also appeared on ESPN and various sports programmes as commentator.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.11.2014
Verlagsort	Frenchs Forest
Sprache	englisch
Maße	154 x 232 mm
Gewicht	580 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Kampfsport / Selbstverteidigung
Themenwelt	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-74257-558-7 / 1742575587
ISBN-13	978-1-74257-558-2 / 9781742575582
Zustand	Neuware