Boxing Confidential

by Jim Brady

Boxing Confidential

  • ISBN-13: 9781903854068
  • Author(s): Jim Brady
  • Subject: Sports & outdoor recreation
  • Publisher: Milo Books
  • Imprint: Milo Books
  • Publication Date: 01-10-2002
  • Format: p/b

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World boxing is in crisis. After decades of corruption and abuse, governing bodies now successfully collude in kickbacks and payoffs while many of the greatest boxers are left destitute and exploited. Now, in the most hard-hitting probe ever into a top-level sport, acclaimed investigative reporter Jim Brady uses unprecedented access to FBI files, secret wiretaps and confidential documents to piece together for the first time the history of how an entire sport sold its soul. Illustrated with 16 pages of b/w photos.
About the book

World boxing is in crisis. After decades of corruption and abuse, governing bodies now successfully collude in kickbacks and payoffs while many of the greatest boxers are left destitute and exploited. Now, in the most hard-hitting probe ever into a top-level sport, acclaimed investigative reporter Jim Brady uses unprecedented access to FBI files, secret wiretaps and confidential documents to piece together for the first time the history of how an entire sport sold its soul. Illustrated with 16 pages of b/w photos.