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Facing Ali: 15 Fighters / 15 Stories
"Brunt does an excellent job of bringing his subjects out of the shadow of the Greatest, recounting their often poignant tales of life before and after their dates with the champ. In the end, of course,we learn more about Ali. What stands out is their almost unanimous expression of affection for Ali. A worthy addition to any boxingcollection." ...more
Paperback, 320 pages
Published
April 1st 2004
by Lyons Press
(first published March 2003)
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Facing Ali is more or less a collection of 15 mini biographies of 15 Muhammad Ali opponents with an emphasis on their fights with Ali. You have some of the great fighters that Ali squared off with but also some of the no hopers and opponents that he faced also. It starts with Tunny Hunsaker, who he fought in his pro debut and ends with Larry Holmes who he fought in his second to last fight. Some of these guys ended up in not the best shape financially or neurologicly but others seem to be doing ...more
What would it have been like to stand across the ring from one of the greatest fighters of the twentieth century? How does fighting a legend change or influence a person? Those questions are at the heart of Brunt's Facing Ali, which traces Ali's career not through the man himself, but through the men he fought.
Brunt begins chronologically, starting with Ali's first professional opponent, and moving through until he comes to Larry Holmes, the man who beat Ali in Ali's final night in ...more
Brunt begins chronologically, starting with Ali's first professional opponent, and moving through until he comes to Larry Holmes, the man who beat Ali in Ali's final night in ...more
I don't know if this is any good. But I said I'd take up a sport, and Dustin's got the football covered, and baseball dies with that whole steroid thingy for me. Oh and I like violence... so boxing it is...
I have to say that this book was one of the best books I could have ever read. I loved the way it was formatted but what it did for me was get me back into reading books. I had read a good number of books and then all of a sudden stopped. Then my roommate picked me up this book for X-mas and I pounded thru it before January 1st. I was back on my reading bing.
This book has a cool format as it is broken into 15 different chapters and talks about 15 different opponents that Ali faced i...more
This book has a cool format as it is broken into 15 different chapters and talks about 15 different opponents that Ali faced i...more
A very interesting book about 15 different fighters and their fights with Mohamed Ali.
interesting read. lots of different views/opinions on mr ali.
Learned a lot about Ali and his opponents.
An interesting approach to the Greatest, interviewing a cross-section of his opponents.
The book is more interesting for the biographical snapshots of these (mostly unknown) opponents than for the insights it provides about Ali. Boxers as a group are not known for their penetrating insight, and the author/interviewer does little to coax them into meaningful reveries.
An interesting B-list read on the Sweet Science.
The book is more interesting for the biographical snapshots of these (mostly unknown) opponents than for the insights it provides about Ali. Boxers as a group are not known for their penetrating insight, and the author/interviewer does little to coax them into meaningful reveries.
An interesting B-list read on the Sweet Science.
Will tell you more about his, yours, and our history than you might remember.
the lance armstrong of boxing - just in a league of his own
This book was pretty good not amazing but good.
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