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Four Kings: Leonard, Hagler, Hearns, Duran and the Last Great Era of Boxing by George Kimball (Paperback, 2008)
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Kimball writes with insight and humour. Four Kings. Trade paperback. Subtitled, Leonard, Hagler, Hearns, Duran & The Last Great Era Of Boxing. Short Title Four Kings. He died in July 2011. Thrilling, insightful and often humourous. . [Kimball] captures the contests, the fighters and the period with a wonderful perception The Independent .
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The first book to comprehensively tell the story of how four middleweight boxing giants came to dominate the sport throughout the 1980s By the late 1970s, boxing had lapsed into a moribund state and interest in it was on the wane. In 1980, however, the sport was resuscitated by a riveting series of bouts involving an improbably dissimilar quartet- Sugar Ray Leonard, Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Thomas Hearns and Roberto Duran. The 'Four Kings of the Ring' would fight one another nine times throughout the decade and win sixteen world titles between them. Like Ali and Frazier, Dempsey and Tunney, Robinson and LaMotta, these four boxers brought out the best in each other, producing unprecedented multi-million-dollar gates along the way. Each of the nine bouts between the four men was memorable in its own way and at least two of them - Leonard-Hearns I in 1981 and Hagler-Hearns in 1985 - are commonly included on any list of the greatest fights of all time. The controversial outcome of another - the 1987 Leonard-Hagler fight - remains the subject of heated debates amongst fans to this day. Leonard, Hagler, Hearns and Duran didn't set out to save boxing from itself in the post-Ali era, but somehow they managed to do so. In Four Kings, award-winning journalist George Kimball documents the remarkable effect they had on the sport and argues that we will never see their likes again.Product Identifiers
PublisherTransWorld LTD
ISBN-139781845963590
eBay Product ID (ePID)92131526
Product Key Features
Book TitleFour Kings: Leonard, Hagler, Hearns, Duran and the Last Great Era of Boxing
AuthorGeorge Kimball
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2008
GenreSports
Number of Pages368 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height234mm
Item Width153mm
Item Weight460g
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorGeorge Kimball
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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- 30 Apr, 2020
A Must For Any FIght Fan,
Anyone of these would have been considered a great in any era but remarkable that all four turned up at the same time and all fought each other. Chances of them fighting each other today would be no hope and Bob Hope......and Bob's outta town. Well written by an obvious fight fan. Pages fly by.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 20 Dec, 2018
Great
Great book one of the best I have readVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 16 Apr, 2021
Brillant read 📚
Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 03 Jun, 2024
All good, thanks very much.
All good, thanks very much.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
