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Bunce's big fat short history of British boxing / Steve Bunce.

by Bunce, Steve.

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Bantam Press, 2017.

Boxing -- Great Britain -- History.

Boxers (Sports) -- Great Britain -- Biography.

Sportswriters -- Great Britain -- Anecdotes.

9780593078709 (hc.)

9780593079096 (pbk.)

9780593079096 (pbk.)

Alternate title:

Big fat short history of British boxing

455 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes index.

"Boxing is Steve Bunce's game. He has filed thousands of fight reports from ringside. He has written millions of words for national newspapers previewing boxing, profiling boxers and proselytising on the business. He has been the voice of British boxing on the airwaves, both radio and television, with an army of loyal fans. And now it's time for his history of the sport of kings on these isles. Starting in 1970, the beginning of modern boxing in Britain, Bunce takes us from Joe Bugner beating Henry Cooper to 22 million television fans watching Barry McGuigan win his world title on the BBC. All boxing royalty is here - Frank Bruno taking on Mike Tyson in Las Vegas; Benn, Watson, Eubank and Naseem; Ricky Hatton, Lennox Lewis and Calzaghe; Froch and Haye - through to a modern day situation where with fighters as diverse as Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua, we have more world champions than ever before. And besides the fighters, there are the fixers, the managers, the trainers, the duckers and divers - every high and impossible low, tragic deaths and fairy tales. It is a record of British boxing, British boxing people and fifty years of glory, heartache and drama."--Provided by publisher.

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