Fittingly, it is in Las Vegas, boxing's capital, in a faded casino bar with only a hooker for company that author Jonathan Rendall, a young British boxing enthusiast, reflects on his own exit from the boxing scene. What unfolds is the true story of his boyhood romance with the sport, his canny coming-of-age as a boxing writer, and his risky bid to bring the unknown Colin Sweet C McMillan to the World Featherweight Championship. As Rendall narrates his growing disillusionment with the boxing business, the characters he has lived with and for rear sharply into focus: the mouthy, eighty-year-old ladies' man Jack Kid Berg; the barely alive legend Kid Chocolate; and Sweet C, who tells Rendall you can talk about boxing all you like, but at the end of the day, it's a fight. That's all it is.
Categories:
- Sports & Outdoors
- Individual Sports
- Boxing
- Individual Sports
Publisher : Ecco
Author : Rendall, Jonathan
Language : English
Edition : First Edition
Published :1999-07-30
Number Of Pages : 187
Binding : Hardcover
ISBN-10 : 0880016019
ISBN-13 : 9780880016018
Item weight : 0.8 lb
Dimensions : 0.9 in x 6.2 in x 9.1 in
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