Fittingly, it is in Las Vegas, boxing's capital, in a faded casino bar with only a hooker for company that author Jonathan Rendall, a young British boxing enthusiast, reflects on his own exit from the boxing scene. What unfolds is the true story of his boyhood romance with the sport, his canny coming-of-age as a boxing writer, and his risky bid to bring the unknown Colin "Sweet C" McMillan to the World Featherweight Championship. As Rendall narrates his growing disillusionment with the boxing business, the characters he has ...
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Fittingly, it is in Las Vegas, boxing's capital, in a faded casino bar with only a hooker for company that author Jonathan Rendall, a young British boxing enthusiast, reflects on his own exit from the boxing scene. What unfolds is the true story of his boyhood romance with the sport, his canny coming-of-age as a boxing writer, and his risky bid to bring the unknown Colin "Sweet C" McMillan to the World Featherweight Championship. As Rendall narrates his growing disillusionment with the boxing business, the characters he has lived with and for rear sharply into focus: the mouthy, eighty-year-old ladies' man Jack Kid Berg; the barely alive legend Kid Chocolate; and Sweet C, who tells Rendall "you can talk about boxing all you like, but at the end of the day, it's a fight. That's all it is."
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