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Falling Hard: A Rookie's Year in Boxing |  | Author: Chris Jones
Publisher: House of Anansi Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 3666350
Media: Paperback
Pages: 208
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 5.9 x 0.8
ISBN: 0887846645
Dewey Decimal Number: 796
EAN: 9780887846649
ASIN: 0887846645
Publication Date: March 19, 2007
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In Falling Hard: A Rookie's Year in Boxing, Chris Jones recounts his first year at ringside. He gets dressed down by Don King, gambles his way through Vegas, meets the troubled guy who found Evander Holyfield's ear, goes to Muhammad Ali's birthday party, and witnesses Prince Naseem Hamed explode while Mike Tyson implodes. Like the sport itself, Falling Hard is equal measures of victory and defeat — an intoxicating combination that leaves Jones down for the count more than once. Determined to stay objective, he instead becomes addicted to boxing's special brand of pain, and what begins as a simple curiosity soon escalates into an unhealthy obsession. Jones writes with the rhythm of the sport he covers: hard and fast, with the drama of fiction but the truth of journalism. Sometimes humorous, always suspenseful, Falling Hard is a travelogue for the fight game, boxing distilled to its essence by sportswriting's newest star.
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 Short But Not Sweet September 8, 2006
Chris Jones showed the signs of a decent writer in this short book.I found it worth a read but it could have been better had he shown more depth.This ingredient could be found with a writer of some maturity.
 An Amatuer Attempt...A Boxing Neophyte January 21, 2006
Tropicalwolf (Ohio, USA)
Just because one is a sportswriter does not mean that they can cover all sports accurately. Not all sports have the same depth or the same level of needed understanding. It is all the worse when a sport is covered by someone who had neither a passion for the sport nor any intellectual interest in the sport. Chris Jones really doesn't have any knowledge of the history of boxing that delves deeper than a previous short newspaper clip or a 30 second sound byte.
It would be nice if this author would attempt to write at least one complete sentence. How about an attempt not to use "sportswriter" jargon or "present slang". A professional examination of this topic would have been much more digestible.
Latching onto the "feel good" character of Otis Grant was sad. The author only attempted to understand his history AFTER his assignment was given. Then he paints Mr. Grant as a helpless figure who is abused and tormented by the evil world of boxing. Oh yeah, forget that Otis Grant loved boxing...
This is a read for those with a short attention span and no interest in the true history/reality of boxing. If you like boxing...and good writing...it will just make you sick.
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