
by JohnDuncan (Author)
This is John Duncan's account of his year spent in Havana, attempting to arrange a boxing match where professional boxing is illegal. The heat and bureacracy is intercut with portraits of Cuba's boxing legends: Teofilo Stevenson; Benny Kid Paret; Black Bill; Angel Espinosa; and Kid Choclolate.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 338
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Yellow Jersey Press
Published: 01 Mar 2001
ISBN 10: 0224060945
ISBN 13: 9780224060943
Book Overview: Professional boxing is illegal in Cuba; John Duncan spends a year there trying to arrange a fight between Mike Tyson and Cuban double Olympic champion Felix Savon, the two greatest living heavyweights.