Four Kings: Leonard, Hagler, Hearns, Duran, and the Last Great Era of Boxing

George Kimball

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1590132386 ISBN 13: 9781590132388

Casa editrice: McBooks Pr, 2009

"Sugar" Ray Leonard, "Marvelous" Marvin Hagler, Thomas "Hit Man" Hearns, and Roberto Duran all formed the pantheon of boxing greats during the late 1970s and early 1980s?before the pay-per-view model, when prize fights were telecast on network television and still captured the nation's attention. Championship bouts during this era were replete with revenge and fury, often pitting one of these storied fighters against another. From training camps to locker rooms, veteran sports journalist George Kimball was there to cover every body shot, uppercut, and TKO. Inside stories, including recent interviews of each of the boxers, are full of drama, sacrifice, fear, and pain, resulting in a fast-paced, blow-by-blow account of four extraordinary adversaries and a remarkable boxing epoch.

L'autore:

George Kimball was a sports columnist for the Boston Herald for 25 years. He was awarded the Nat Fleischer Award for Excellence in Boxing Journalism in 1985 from the Boxing Writers Association of America. He has covered nearly 400 world-title fights and is the author of Only Skin Deep and Sunday's Fools. He lives in New York City.

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