This Bloody Mary Is the Last Thing I Own: A journey to the end of boxing - Hardcover

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The sport of boxing is dying in a last explosion of dollars. Its beleaguered performers are reaching up for a last payday with bravery, one-liners and self-delusion. Fittingly it is in Las Vegas, boxing's capital, in a faded casino bar with only a hooker for company, that Jonathan Rendall, a boxing writer and sometime boxer's agent, reflects on his own exit from the scene. As the boxing world starts to recede, the characters he has lived with, and for, rear sharply into focus one last time: the astonishing Jack Kid Berg, Kid Chocolate, the Havana Dandy, and "Sweet C" McMillan, the World Featherweight Champion. "This Bloody Mary" is the story of an obsession. It is a hilarious, elegiac tour through a weird and fascinating world, an irreverent look at the boxers, high-rollers and lowlife who inhabit the doomed sport sometimes known as "showbusiness with blood".

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