A Fighter's Heart: One Man's Journey Through the World of Fighting

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2009
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After a series of adventurous jobs around the world, Sam Sheridan found himself in Australia, cash-rich and with time on his hands to spend it. It occurred to him that he could finally explore a long-held obsession: fighting. Within a year, he was in Bangkok training with Thailand's greatest kickboxing champion and stepping through the ropes for his first professional bout. But one fight wasn't enough, and Sheridan set out to test himself on an epic journey into how and why we fight, facing Olympic boxers, Brazilian jiu-jitsu stars, and Ultimate Fighting champions.
A Fighter's Heart is a dizzying first-hand account of what it is like to reach the peak of finely disciplined personal aggression.

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After a series of adventurous jobs around the world, Sam Sheridan found himself in Australia, cash-rich and with time on his hands to spend it. It occurred to him that he could finally explore a long-held obsession: fighting. Within a year, he was in Bangkok training with Thailand's greatest kickboxing champion and stepping through the ropes for his first professional bout. But one fight wasn't enough, and Sheridan set out to test himself on an epic journey into how and why we fight, facing Olympic boxers, Brazilian jiu-jitsu stars, and Ultimate Fighting champions.

A Fighter's Heart is a dizzying first-hand account of what it is like to reach the peak of finely disciplined personal aggression.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
Edition: Main
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Published: 01 Feb 2009
ISBN 10: 1843547333
ISBN 13: 9781843547334
Book Overview: After the success of Fight Club and Neill Strauss's The Game comes the next big non-fiction book for men, A Fighter's Heart, the real Fight Club. Already a huge success in the US, this raw, bone-crunching memoir of one man's adventures in fighting has all the ingredients for a huge paperback sale.

Media Reviews

[Sheridan's] accounts of the gruelling work-outs he endured and the characters he met form the compelling core of the book... Watch out, he's still in training. * Independent on Sunday *
A writer who can intelligently explain his love of fighting. * Dazed and Confused *

Author Bio

Sam Sheridan joined the US Merchant Marines after high school and then attended Harvard College. He has written for Men's Journal and Newsweek. This is his first book.