The Soul of Boxing: Michael Watson, Nigel Benn, Frank Bruno and other big hitters of faith Book

The Soul of Boxing gets under the skin of the greatest remaining gladiatorial sport, taking its content from the people that really matter--the fighters. Politicians can have their views, journalists can write reports and comment on the sport, but what is important are the people who want to climb into the ring to box.This is the thinking behind Phil Shirley's excellent book. The author, an established sports writer, uses his contacts and journalistic skills to bring together a volume which will give the reader a rare insight into what goes on in the mind of the boxer. The book is at once shocking and poetic, but the many quotes and interviews typify the attitude of boxing's insiders to the sport. They are the people who live to be in the ring--sometimes for different reasons: money, glory, the will to win or the belief that to pit their strengths against the might of a challenger is their calling in life. The book shows the glorious and the gruesome sides to the sport, the feelings of those who lose their sons, brothers or friends to the kiss of a glove and the slap of the canvass and the readers are encouraged to make up their own minds about the validity of what is often called the cruellest of sports. --Andrew ThursdayRead More