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(More customer reviews)after reading the first chapter of this book and uncovering mob ties dating back throughout the 20th century, i was anxious to read further about each individual bout that was marred with scandal. unfortunately, this book leaves you wanting more in terms of answers and further insight into certain fights. for instance, there is great coverage and details about the bouts themselves, but just as your getting into the stories the chapter will end unexpectedly and leave you with the same sour feeling you get upon watching a fight get stopped prematurely due to a disqualification, or a judge who makes you sick to your stomach as a result of his scoring. there was nothing about why andrew golota threw so many low blows. furthermore, there wasn't much on the phantom punch of sonny liston. right when you think the book is about to throw a knockout punch, the round ends.
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In The Sweet Science Goes Sour, boxing writer Thomas Myler recounts some of the sport's most controversial fixes, fakes, and frauds. Like a ringside seat at the sport's greatest and most troubled bouts, the book brings to life boxing's many outrageous characters. They include Primo Carnera, tragically manipulated and ultimately destroyed by mobsters; Sonny Liston, who lost to Muhammad Ali because of a suspicious phantom punch; and Roberto Duran's, who was involved in a baffling surrender to Sugar Ray Leonard. Here too are notorious matchups like Riddick Bowe versus Andrew Golota, which ended in an unprecedented full-scale riot at Madison Square Garden. There's also Mike Tyson's infamous ear-munch on a shocked Evander Holyfield. Based on solid research and written in a dramatic, "you-are-there" style, this book pulls back the curtain on the squared circle to reveal the seamier side of the sweet science.
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