Four Kings: Leonard, Hagler, Hearns, Duran and the Last Great Era of Boxing
George Kimball, "Four Kings: Leonard, Hagler, Hearns, Duran and the Last Great Era of Boxing"
Publisher: McBooks Press | ISBN: 1590132386 | 2009 | EPUB/MOBI | 352 pages | 2 MB/1 MB
"Sugar" Ray Leonard, "Marvelous" Marvin Hagler, Thomas "Hit Man" Hearns, and Roberto Duran all formed the pantheon of boxing greats during the late 1970s and early 1980s—before the pay-per-view model, when prize fights were telecast on network television and still captured the nation's attention. Championship bouts during this era were replete with revenge and fury, often pitting one of these storied fighters against another. From training camps to locker rooms, veteran sports journalist George Kimball was there to cover every body shot, uppercut, and TKO. Inside stories, including recent interviews of each of the boxers, are full of drama, sacrifice, fear, and pain, resulting in a fast-paced, blow-by-blow account of four extraordinary adversaries and a remarkable boxing epoch.