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Title

The hardest game : McIlvanney on boxing / Hugh McIlvanney.

Author

McIlvanney, Hugh

Publication

Chicago : Contemporary Books, 2001.

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Details

Additional Authors

McIlvanney, Hugh.

Description

335 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"This compilation of articles from foremost sports journalist Hugh McIlvanney provides a ringside seat to some of the most remarkable happenings in world boxing since the 1960s. At the core of this collection stands the incredible career of Muhammad Ali - the man whom McIlvanney considers the greatest figure in the history of sports, McIlvanney was also on hand to witness thrilling bouts involving Carlos Ortiz and Carlos Monzon - two of the greatest fighters ever seen - and the extraordinary contests between "Marvelous" Marvin Hagler, Tommy Hearns, and Sugar Ray Leonard. With the author's hallmark combination of immediacy and incisiveness, more recent writing reports on Oscar De La Hoya, Roy Jones, Mike Tyson, and Lennox Lewis. While McIlvanney can starkly illuminate farce and tragedy in boxing, the passion of his writing reveals that, in spite of deep and persistent doubts about its justifiability, he continues to be drawn to this, "the hardest game.""--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Contemporary sports classics

Uniform Title

Contemporary sports classics.

Subjects

• Biographies
• Boxers (Sports) > United States > Biography
• Ali, Muhammad, 1942-2016
• Boxing

Genre/Form

Biographies

Note

• Updated ed. of: McIlvanney on boxing. c1982.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction: The Case for the Hardest Game -- Pt. 1. The Alpha -- Muhammad Ali v. Henry Cooper, London, 21 May 1966 -- Light and Hard and Ready to Rumble -- Big Match at Highbury -- The Fight -- Muhammad Ali v. US Government, Houston, Texas, August 1967 -- 'Boxing Is Child's Play Compared with This Fight' -- Joe Frazier v. Muhammad Ali, New York, 8 March 1971 -- Superman at Bay -- Just Another Brother -- George Foreman v. Ken Norton, Caracas, Venezuela, 26 March 1974 -- The Club Man in Caracas -- Dark Thoughts of Africa -- George Foreman v. Muhammad Ali, Kinshasa, Zaire, 30 October 1974 -- Small Cut, Big Problem -- 'He's Only a Human. My Guy Ain't' -- The Greatest, Again -- Muhammad Ali v. Joe Frazier, Quezon City, The Philippines, 1 October 1975 -- A Kind of Requiem -- Pt. 2. Some of Our Own Who Could Have a Row -- Willie Pastrano v. Terry Downes, Manchester, 30 November 1964 -- The Hungry Bookmaker -- Letting It All Out -- Chartchai Chionoi v. Walter McGowan, London, 19 September 1967 -- Blood Has the Last Word Again -- Jack Bodell v. Henry Cooper, London, 24 March 1970 -- The Sour Taste in Jack Bodell's Pop -- Vicente Saldivar v. Howard Winstone, London, 7 September 1965 -- Merthyr versus Mexico -- Saldivar the Stalker -- Decided Long Ago -- Scottish Fighting Man -- Ken Buchanan v. Ismael Laguna, New York, 13 September 1971 -- Buchanan and Partner -- Jim Watt v. Howard Davis, Glasgow, 7 June 1980 -- Planning to Break a Heart -- Glasgow Saturday Night -- Onward Virgin Soldier
• Lupe Pintor v. Johnny Owen, Los Angeles, 19 September 1980 -- Johnny Owen's Last Fight -- Pt. 3. Prodigies and Prisoners -- Carlos Ortiz v. Ismael Laguna, New York, 16 August 1967 -- Ortiz's Peaceful Punch-up -- Carlos Monzon v. Jean-Claude Bouttier, Paris, 17 June 1972 -- In This Corner: The Sheep -- Sugar Ray Leonard v. Thomas Hearns, Las Vegas, 16 September 1981 -- Sugar Ray and the Hit-Man -- Lou, Duane and Good Old Chuck -- Fighting for Freedom -- Pt. 4. ... and the Omega -- Leon Spinks v. Muhammad Ali, New Orleans, 15 September 1978 -- Dreaming of Another World -- No Nemesis, Just a Novice -- Larry Holmes v. Muhammad Ali, Las Vegas, 2 October 1980 -- Shooting for Immortality -- A Legend at Hazard -- Muhammad Ali v. Trevor Berbick, Nassau, The Bahamas, 11 December 1981 -- Falling Idol in Paradise -- The King Who Went Out on a Dustcart -- Pt. 5. Further Dispatches -- Fighter With All Ireland in His Corner -- Donald Curry v. Colin Jones, Birmingham, 19 January 1985 -- Scales Tip toward Curry -- Bloody End for Jones -- Marvin Hagler v. Thomas Hearns, Las Vegas, 15 April 1985 -- Hearns Cornered by a Man Possessed -- Eusebio Pedroza v. Barry McGuigan, London, 8 June 1985 -- Magnificent McGuigan Is King -- Lloyd Honeyghan v. Donald Curry, Atlantic City, 7 September 1986 -- A Shocker over Cocktails -- Marvin Hagler v. Sugar Ray Leonard, Las Vegas, 6 April 1987 -- The Illusion of Victory -- Ring of Caution -- King of the Ring and Lord of Chaos
• Lloyd Honeyghan v. Marlon Starling, Las Vegas, 4 February 1989 -- Shadows Fall on British Dreams -- Mike Tyson v. Frank Bruno, Las Vegas, 25 February 1989 -- A Prize Beyond Reach -- It's a Good Time for Bruno to Go -- Mike Tyson v. James Douglas, Tokyo, 11 February 1990 -- When an Ogre Looks Forlorn -- Hero of the Non-Militant Tendency -- A Drowning Man in Fat City -- Dubious Dealings in Xanadu -- Fat Chance for King of the Burgers -- Foreman Fails with Honour -- The Tortured Morality of Little Wars -- Sad Tale of Beauty and the 'Beast' -- The Raging Bull in the Bedroom -- Big Man from Tyson Town -- Bowe the King of Hearts -- A Robbery with Violence -- The Terrible Beauty of Chavez -- Bruno Should Retire, and Lewis Needs to Improve -- Champions Still Have to Settle Their Score -- Heavyweight Reading for the Scholar-Pugilist -- Moorer Takes the Title but Chaos Reigns -- From Miami Vice to Gunning for Lewis -- Lewis Punches Out His Credentials -- Young, Gifted, but Out of Order -- A Sudden Leap to the Top -- Jones Shuts Toney's Big, Bad Mouth -- The Guru at the Glutton's Table -- The Same Old Brutal Truths -- Looking for a Fight -- Lewis on Way Back by Mean Streets -- Don't Get Too Excited, Lennox -- Tyson Tests His Drawing Power -- The Golden Fleece -- Bruno the World Champ -- Hard Road to Hopesville -- I'm Ready to Rumble -- Glory Returns to the Garden -- Iron Mike Has Plenty in the Fire -- Have-a-go Hero on Hiding to Nothing -- Time for Bruno to Cry Enough
• Lewis Ready to Expel Demons -- The Sick Face of Boxing -- Awed by Ali, the One True King -- Judgement Night Looms for Tyson -- The Most Marketable Psychotic -- When Cash Outstrips Credibility.

ISBN

0658021540 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2001053797

OCLC

• 48092295
• SCSB-12351951

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library