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Bert Sugar on Boxing The Best of the Sport's Most Notable Writer

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ISBN-10: 1592286593

ISBN-13: 9781592286591

Edition: 2005

Authors: Bert Randolph Sugar

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"Entertaining, insightful, and eminently colorful-the next best thing to being at the fights."--"New York Sportscene ." . . anyone taking a trip through the sport's hardscrabble past couldn't ask for a better guide..."--"The Ring Known as the "guru" of boxing, Bert Randolph Sugar is one of the most charismatic writers ever to capture the drama of the fight on paper. With a passion for the sport that is rivaled only by his talent for writing about it, Bert Sugar is also regarded as the "unofficial historian" of boxing. With his trademark fedora and always-handy cigar, Sugar is a guaranteed ringside presence. His colorful personality and flamboyant mannerisms are unforgettable whether you…    
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Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Globe Pequot Press, The
Publication date: 10/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.93" tall
Weight: 0.088
Language: English

Introduction
Rants and Raves
Statement before the Senate Subcommittee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
After One Hundred Years, Boxing's Critics Continue to Sharpen Old Saws
I'd Rather Poke My Eye Out With A Sharp Stick Than Watch Women's Boxing!
I Didn't Know Writing Was a Contact Sport
Boxers Need a Defense Against the A.M.A.'s Blows
On Howard Cosell
Boxing: Where Something's Going on All the Time ... Most of It Unsolved
Lewis-Tyson: Hell No, I Won't Go
Put Boxing's So-Called "Officials" in Charge of the Sahara and It Would Soon Run out of Sand
When You're at an Age Where You Go to a Topless Bar and Look at the Menu, then Big George's Win was More than Food for Thought
What Gives with All These Comebacks? Enough Already
The Fighters
America Finds a Hero: John L. Sullivan
Jack Johnson: Black Champion and White Hopes
Jack Dempsey--and Boxing's Golden Age
The Reign of Joe Louis, the Brown Bomber
Tommy Hearns: A Four-Time Champion Stands Foursquare in History
Oscar De La Hoya: Bringing Back the Glory of the Welterweights
Roy Jones Jr. vs. the Light Heavyweight Greats: Who would Have Won
By Unanimous Decision, Prince Naz is the Best Boxer Today, Sound-for-Sound
Lennox Lewis: Britain's First Vertical Champion
The Fights
Jack Dempsey vs. Louis Firpo, September 14, 1923
Rocky Graziano vs. Tony Zale, 1946, '47, and '48
Rocky Marciano vs. Jersey Joe Walcott, September 23, 1952
Carmen Basilio vs. Sugar Ray Robinson, September 23, 1957
Archie Moore vs. Yvon Durelle, December 10, 1958
Cassius Clay vs. Sonny Liston, February 25, 1964
Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier, March 8, 1971
George Foreman vs. Joe Frazier, January 22, 1973
Aaron Pryor vs. Alexis Arguello, November 12, 1982
Roberto Duran vs. Sugar Ray Leonard I, June 20, 1980
Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Roberto Duran II, November 25, 1980
Larry Holmes vs. Muhammad Ali, October 2, 1980
Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Thomas Hearns, September 16, 1981
Mike Tyson vs. Evander Holyfield, June 28, 1997
History
The Way Out