Ready to Rumble
John Upton, 16 March 2000
King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero
by David Remnick.
Picador, 326 pp., £14.99, October 1999,0 330 37188 6 Show More
by David Remnick.
Picador, 326 pp., £14.99, October 1999,
Muhammad Ali: Ringside
edited by John Miller and Aaron Kenedi.
Virgin, 128 pp., £14.99, September 1999,1 85227 852 8 Show More
edited by John Miller and Aaron Kenedi.
Virgin, 128 pp., £14.99, September 1999,
“... Some day they’re gonna write a blues song for fighters. It’ll just be for slow guitar, soft trumpet and a bell.’ So said Sonny Liston in 1962, after he’d beaten his closest rival, Floyd Patterson, and become Heavyweight Champion of the World. Liston was not known for his sensitivity. Indeed, the facts of his life read like a blueprint for a Hollywood film of the flawed fighter ... ”