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World boxing is in crisis. After decades of corruption and abuse, governing bodies now successfully collude in kickbacks and payoffs while many of the greatest boxers are left destitute and exploited. Now, in the most hard-hitting probe ever into a top-level sport, acclaimed investigative reporter Jim Brady uses unprecedented access to FBI files, secret wiretaps and confidential documents to piece together for the first time the history of how an entire sport sold its soul. Illustrated with 16 pages of b/w photos.
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'One of the most intriguing boxing books for many years.'
-- DAILY STAR
'Superb.' -- BOXING NEWS
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World boxing is in crisis. Decades of corruption and abuse have relegated the once-Noble Art to what one sportswriter has called "the red light district of sports." Many of the greatest boxers have been left destitute, punch-drunk and exploited, while governing bodies collude in kickbacks and payoffs. Yet world heavyweight title fights remain the richest and most compelling events in sport. Acclaimed investigative journalist Jim Brady has spent years delving onto the underbelly of boxing to produce this searing expose. He has been granted unprecedented access to FBI files, secret wiretaps and confidential documents to piece together for the first time the history of how an entire sport sold its soul. Brady traces large-scale corruption from the days when the Mob infiltrated American boxing in the 1920s to the present day organisations that govern the sport worldwide. He examines the role of key figures such as Don King, Bob Arum, World Boxing Council boss Jose Sulaiman and World Boxing Association "bagman" Dr Pepe Cordero.
He exposes the conmen, hucksters and leeches, uncovers modern day fixed fights and relates the true story of the International Boxing Federation scandal that rocked the game."About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
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