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No Middle Ground

No Middle Ground

Eubank, Benn, Watson and the golden era of British boxing

by Sanjeev Shetty
Paperback
Publication Date: 02/07/2015

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The fight took place a month after the Hillsborough disaster and was screened live on TV, in a slot now dominated by talent contests. It was a time when kids could stay up late to watch 12 rounds of madness. It was also the last Golden Era of British Boxing. While for us these greats of British boxing provided entertainment away from the hooliganism of football, for them it was much more personal. Rivalries exist in every sport, but their loathing was real and in the ring it nearly became deadly. But this is what the swaggering early-90's Britain tuned in for. These three fighters were Britain's alpha-ego. They made the country proud.

No Middle Ground takes us back to the years when these boxers pounded the heavy bags and tells their story as well as that of Britain's love affair with the sport, and how these fight came to define them and us. In tracing the boxers' journeys to centre-stage Sanjeev Shetty reveals the story of the dark side of Thatcher's nation - the blood, the sweat, the dangerous hatred that fuelled these men, and the ultimate price they would pay for their moment in the sun.
ISBN:
9781781313602
9781781313602
Category:
Boxing
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
02-07-2015
Publisher:
Quarto Publishing PLC
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
320
Dimensions (mm):
198x129x23mm
Weight:
0.23kg
Sanjeev Shetty

Sanjeev Shetty is a sports journalist with nearly twenty years’ experience.

He works for the BBC as a producer and reporter on their international services covering their sports news channels.

He is the author of No Middle Ground and Messigraphica. Sanjeev lives in Cheshire, UK with his family

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