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The Sweet Science Goes Sour: How Scandal Brought Boxing to Its Knees
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In "The Sweet Science Goes Sour, " boxing writer Thomas Myler recounts some of the sport’, s most controversial fixes, fakes, and frauds. Like a ringside seat at the sport’, s greatest and most troubled bouts, the book brings to life boxing’, s many outrageous characters. They include Primo Carnera, tragically manipulated and ultimately destroyed by mobsters, Sonny Liston, who lost to Muhammad Ali because of a suspicious phantom punch, and Roberto Duran’, s, who was involved in a baffling surrender to Sugar Ray Leonard. Here too are notorious matchups like Riddick Bowe versus Andrew Golota, which ended in an unprecedented full-scale riot at Madison Square Garden. There's also Mike Tyson’, s infamous ear-munch on a shocked Evander Holyfield. Based on solid research and written in a dramatic, “, you-are-there”, style, this book pulls back the curtain on the squared circle to reveal the seamier side of the sweet science.
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