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Zusatztext "Hannigan’s book excels here with well-chosen quotations painting the unique status! even among athletes! of the boxer." -- The New York Times Book Review ?It’s a brilliant piece of reportage! full of quirks and factoids from an almost unrecognisable time and place. If it was fiction! it would be thoroughly enjoyable. The fact that it’s all appallingly true makes it too grim for that.” -- The Irish Times ?Released shortly after the death of ?The Greatest!’ this requiem for a heavyweight should enjoy a wide readership among boxing fans and a general audience.” -- Library Journal ! starred review ?Boxing is not like baseball. A ballplayer who comes back for one too many seasons risks embarrassment. A boxer faces far worse dangers. After his October 1980 beating at the hands of Larry Holmes! Muhammad Ali should have exited the sport. But he didn’t. He needed one more fight! one final sad exhibition of courage before calling it quits. Dave Hannigan traces the reasons why! and the men who allowed it to happen. Drama in the Bahamas reads like a train wreck! making one want to turn away and not watch. But it details a reality in the sport.” ?Randy Roberts! author of Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X and Joe Louis: Hard Times Man Informationen zum Autor Dave Hannigan is columnist with the Irish Times (Dublin), the Evening Echo (Cork) and the Irish Echo (New York). He's a professor of history at Suffolk County Community College on Long Island, and resides in Setauket, New York. This is his ninth book. Klappentext The story behind Ali's last bout. A few weeks short of his fortieth birthday, a diminished Ali stepped through the ropes one more time to get beaten up by Trevor Berbick. How had it come to this? Why was he still boxing? The author answers these questions and more, offering a glimpse into the last days of Ali's professional fighting life. Zusammenfassung "It's over," mumbled Ali. "It's over."...
