SHORTLISTED FOR SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2025An autobiographical whiteknuckle ride around the global fight game by the legendary Steve Bunce the voice of the sport who is celebrating four decades of writing and talking about boxers and boxing.In Around the World in 80 Fights, let the Voice of Boxing take you on the ultimate sporting 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 the 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 binbag packed with cash. Let Buncey tell you about the conversations with Mr. T at ringside a meeting with the Popes 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 boxers mother in the hour after a machine had been switched off. The bravery, stupidity, guts, desire and glory of the boxers in the worlds 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...

Binding: Paperback;320 pages; Publisher: Hachette UK Distribution; Classification: BGFA; Weight: 348 g; Dimensions: 197 x 129 x 23

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