Sugar Ray Leonard
Autor(a) de The Big Fight: My Life In and Out of the Ring
Obras de Sugar Ray Leonard
Associated Works
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome de batismo
- Leonard, Ray Charles
- Data de nascimento
- 1956-05-17
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Rocky Mount, North Carolina, USA
- Locais de residência
- Rocky Mount, North Carolina, USA
Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
Washington, D.C., USA
Palmer Park, Maryland, USA - Ocupação
- boxer
- Premiações
- Olympic Medal (Gold|Boxing: Light Welterweight|1976)
Membros
Resenhas
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Associated Authors
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 2
- Also by
- 1
- Membros
- 71
- Popularidade
- #245,552
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Resenhas
- 4
- ISBNs
- 9
The book starts with a short section on Leonard's early life and then gets straight into the nitty gritty of his boxing life as an amateur. He covers how he got into boxing at an early age and how, once he realised he was good at it, his only aim was to box in the Olympics and try to win the gold medal. He is very honest in that he has no intentions of carrying on boxing past the Olympics and had been aiming to rely on his education to get a normal job. However, a few family issues meant that by going pro he could take care of matters instantly rather that see them suffer. It was at this point that he made a very important decision after taking some advice from Muhammad Ali, not to let anyone own him.
This one decision made it possible for him to largely control who he fought, where they fought and meant that he took the majority of the prize fund instead of losing it all to a manager. There are a few people in his life that he credits with helping him make these decisions, people that in retrospect are the polar opposite of him and his upbringing. He talks with great respect and eloquently about his opponents conveying his emotions at the time of the fight and those he feels in the present day looking back. He also talks about his infractions where his personal life is concerned but I feel that he doesn't reveal everything there is to say. He accepts the responsibility for what happened but you can almost sense a 'but' in the air.
This was an enjoyable book that did what I wanted it to do.… (mais)