Book description
In Boxing's Hall of Shame, Thomas Myler tells the inside
stories of the real fight game. He reveals the sport's heroes and
villains, mobsters and fixers, its shame and sorrows, providing the
reader with a ringside seat at boxing's greatest and most
controversial contests along the way.
This no-holds-barred volume includes the enraged Mike Tyson taking a
chunk out of Evander Holyfield's ear; Roberto Duran's baffling
retirement against Sugar Ray Leonard; the Riddick Bowe-Andrew Golota
fiasco that ended in an ugly full-scale riot; Sonny Liston - whose
mobster background was not unknown to boxing authorities - going down
under Muhammad Ali's phantom punch; and Jake LaMotta's botched dive
against Billy Fox, which turned the 'Raging Bull' into boxing's bad
boy overnight.
Boxing's Hall of Shame sensationally revisits the boxing
scandals, the fixed fights and the powerful influence of the
underworld, taking the reader behind the scenes of the glove sport to
reveal the shady underbelly of boxing through the ages.
Thomas Myler is the boxing writer for the
Irish Independent
and the Irish correspondent for
Boxing News
. He has written extensively on world boxing and is considered one of
Ireland's leading historians on the sport.
