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No Way but to Fight: George Foreman and the Business of Boxing (Terry and Jan Todd Series on Physical Culture and Sports)
Maybe someday
35
/100
I Index Overall Rating
Readers
52/100Critics
17/100Scholars
Author:
Andrew R.M. Smith
Publisher:
University of Texas Press
Date:
January 10, 2020
Andrew R. M. Smith traces Foremanâs life and career from the Great Migration to the Great Society, out of urban Houston and onto the world stage where he discovered that fame brought new challenges. Drawing on new interviews with George Foreman and declassified government documents, as well as more than fifty domestic and international newspapers and magazines, Smith brings to life the story of a true American icon
What The Reviewers Say
... an insightful life study. It illuminates the many ways in which Mr. Foreman has differed from his storied competitors and found a kind of postcareer success that eluded them.
Smith focuses on the business of boxing, particularly Foreman’s no-nonsense approach.
In this well researched account, Smith...considers heavyweight George Foreman's life inside the ring and his longstanding contributions to boxing.
In his first book, Smith...approaches his subject in a scholarly manner, and readers...are regularly referred to more than 50 pages of footnotes. Unquestionably, the author did his homework, including research into declassified government documents, and he takes readers to far-flung locales, including Zaire in 1974 for the famous 'Rumble in the Jungle' with Muhammad Ali.
