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Author_John Sutherland
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Jack Dempsey
Joe Frazier
Joe Louis
Lennox Lewis
Logan Paul
Men Boxing
Mike Tyson
mob fixings
Muhammad Ali
Nicola Adams
Oleksandr Usyk
Thrilla in Manila
Tyson Fury
Product details
- ISBN 9781836392682
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Sep 2026
- Publisher: Reaktion Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The noble art of boxing is the world’s oldest contact sport. Its Big Bang moment was the arrival of Thomas Alva Edison, whose pioneering feature film Men Boxing was produced in 1891. From that seed, boxing grew to become the first truly global sport.
97 Fights is a thrilling, no-holds-barred account that considers all the greats – Joe Louis and Muhammad Ali, Nicola Adams and Oleksandr Usyk among them. Modern boxing has weathered the storms of mob fixing, wayward fighters and personal tragedy, in and out of the ring. With signature precision and humour, and the passion of a true fan, John Sutherland charts the sport’s precipitous climb, its golden era and its uncertain future, from the ‘Thrilla in Manila’ to the unedifying spectacle of Logan Paul’s ‘Bragging Rights’. Ultimately, the book asks: where will boxing go? Or will it just go? These are the two questions to which Sutherland’s authoritative survey leads, and to which he supplies authoritative answers.
John Sutherland, the Emeritus Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern Literature at University College London, is a much-published author and journalist and a familiar figure in the literary world. He has long had the wish to write on boxing, the most hurtful sport, and what it has come to mean in his own lifetime.
