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Bunce's Big Fat Short History of British Boxing
- Narrated by: Steve Bunce
- Length: 17 hrs and 8 mins
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Publisher's Summary
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Fully revised and updated with three new chapters.
Boxing is Steve Bunce's game. He has filed thousands and thousands of fight reports from ringside. He has written millions and 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 to put those many years of experience into penning his history of the sport of kings on these isles. It's Bunce's Big Fat Short History of British Boxing.
Starting in 1970, the beginning of modern boxing in Britain, Bunce takes us from Joe Bugner beating Henry Cooper to an explosion then in the sport's exposure to the wider British public, with 22 million 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....
Bunce's Big Fat Short History of British Boxing has every high and impossible low, tragic deaths and fairy tales. It is a record of British boxing, British boxing people and 50 years of glory, heartache and drama.
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- David Morse
- 28-06-2021
Does what it says on the tin
Gem of a book, a story that needed telling and Bunce has given back a lot to all boxing fans by passing on the tales.
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