Looking for a Fight: How a Writer Took on the Boxing World - from the Inside

by David Matthews (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2001

  $3.42

  The story of journalist David Matthews' journey into the heart of one of the most dangerous sports there is. For nearly two years, he sacrificed his career, family, and almost his life in pursuit of one goal: to write the story of a professional boxer by becoming one himself.

• Used

  Paperback
  2002

  $4.06

  When Dave Mattews began to research the strange underworld of boxing, he found that many were reluctant to talk to a writer looking for colour pieces without really understand the sport. So he decided to take them on at their own game and began a two-year training programme so he could have one professional fight. Looking for a Fight is Matthew's story of his own battle for fitness, the difficulty of learning how to punch properly and how to take a punch. Above all he reveals what really motivates the characters that he worked and trained with. What makes someone risk their life for a purse of a few hundred pounds? Why do so many boxers believe that God is on their side? Is boxing a force for good in our society? This is an account of boxing from within and without.