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Around the world in 80 fights : a lifetime's journey to the heart of boxing
—Bunce, Steve, author.
2025

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"In Around the World in 80 Fights" takes you on the ultimate boxing odyssey: to the rings of New York, to the makeshift rings of Bukom in Ghana, to the riches of Las Vegas, and to Riyadh, Atlantic City, Bethnal Green, Mexico City, Rome, and Berlin. To basement rooms in dingy pubs where old fighters chase the last round; a bullring in December under the stars; a small square on the outskirts of Naples with a ring obscured by a fountain; the abandoned centre of boxing excellence in a forest lost in East Germany; a railway arch in South London and a bin-bag packed with cash. Let 'Buncey' tell you about the conversations with Mr. T at ringside; a meeting with the Pope's people; the thoughts of Donald Trump when he had plans to make boxing great again; Don King in exile in his nineties; an overheard conversation with Fidel Castro; and a very real diplomatic incident. The hard conversations with a dead boxer's mother in the hour after a machine had been switched off. The bravery, stupidity, guts, desire and glory of the boxers in the world's most famous and unknown rings. They fought for millions, for pride, for their country and for nothing. They bled, cried and died in those rings. "Around the World in 80 Fights" vividly reveals the simple, wonderful and truly awful business of boxing. It is Buncey's business and this is his story.

Item Details

ISBN: 9781035414017

Description: 307 pages ; 20 cm

Other Title: Around the world in eighty fights

Notes:

  • Originally published in hardcover: London : Headline, 2024.
  • Includes index.

Control Number: 3395977

Publisher: London : Headline, 2025.
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