Four Kings - Leonard, Hagler, Hearns, Duran and the Last Great Era of Boxing (Kimball George)(Paperback)

Sports fans and boxing enthusiasts alike will love this compelling study of the resurgence of boxing in the early 1980s - and the four ''greats'' who effected that change. Four Kings captures the contests, fighters and the period with a wonderful perception and vividly conjures up those by-gone smoky and raucous ringside nights in Vegas...''Thrilling, insightful and often humourous'' - The Independent''A flawless and singular account of fights that remain potent and important decades after the final bell'' - Irish Times''A fascinating read'' - ***** Reader review''Very rarely is a non-fiction book so riveting it''s almost impossible to put down but this is one of those books'' - ***** Reader review''Beautifully written and absolutely fascinating'' - ***** Reader review''Outstanding'' - ***** Reader review*****************************************************************************By the late 1970s, boxing had lapsed into a moribund state and interest in it was on the wane. In 1980, however, the sport was resuscitated by a riveting series of bouts involving an improbably dissimilar quartet: Sugar Ray Leonard, Marvellous Marvin Hagler, Thomas Hearns and Roberto Duran.Like Ali and Frazier, Dempsey and Tunney, Robinson and LaMotta, the ''Four Kings of the Ring'' brought out the best in each other, producing unprecedented multi-million-dollar gates along the way. Each of the nine bouts between the four men was memorable in its own way and at least two of them - Leonard-Hearns in 1
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