Book description
365 days, 7 fights, 4 Kos, 3 decisions, 2 scandals, 1 missing ear, 1
wild yearChris Jones did not know what he was getting himself into. He
looked for a sport to call his own when he was hired as a rookie
reporter. He found boxing. Over the course of the year that followed,
the dark trade would creep deeply inside him, set his heart pumping one
minute and break it the next. Make him stare at violence and dare him
not to flinch. In Falling Hard, Jones proves himself to the latest in a
line of lyricists to be drawn into boxing's storied corruption plagued
world. He gets dressed down by Don King, meets the troubled guy who
found Evander Holyfield's ear, goes to Muhammed Ali's birthday party,
and witnesses Naseem Hamed explode while Mike Tyson implodes. Falling
Hard is in equal measure victory and defeat - an intoxicating mix that
leaves Jones addicted to boxing's special brand of pain. Humorous,
infuriating and suspenseful, this is boxing distilled to its essence by
sports writing's brightest star. Chris Jones was born in London in
1973. He has written for Canada's National Post since 1998 and won the
Edward Goff Penny Memorial Prize for outstanding young journalists. He
lives in Toronto.
