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Wednesday, March 31, 2004
"Falling Hard...A Rookie's Year in Boxing"
by Chris Jones
Memoir by an Englishman living in Toronto who becomes a sportswriter and ends up with boxing as his beat. He covered it for a year during the "Mike Tyson Bites An Ear and Later Sucker Punches His Opponent" period and the two Lennox Lewis/Evander Holyfield bouts. Great stories and insight into the boxing world. He covered the title fights, but also some smaller fights and wrote about the lives of some boxers who were not out there in the limelight, making the big money. He gives you the good and the bad. Very engaging. I really liked this book.
Memoir by an Englishman living in Toronto who becomes a sportswriter and ends up with boxing as his beat. He covered it for a year during the "Mike Tyson Bites An Ear and Later Sucker Punches His Opponent" period and the two Lennox Lewis/Evander Holyfield bouts. Great stories and insight into the boxing world. He covered the title fights, but also some smaller fights and wrote about the lives of some boxers who were not out there in the limelight, making the big money. He gives you the good and the bad. Very engaging. I really liked this book.
