About this title: 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 ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Greystone Books
Date Published: 2006-12-21
ISBN-13:9781553652335ISBN:1553652339
Description: Very Good. Unmarked, uncreased, gently used. Cover has slight shelf wear. Pages clean & bright, binding tight. *Ships Next Business day* read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: GREYSTONE
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9781553652335ISBN:1553652339
Description: New. 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 outrag... read more
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