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The first thing that impressed me about Fritzy was his collection of boxing maxims, which he deployed continuously and without regard to their relevance: 'Ya don't play boxing', 'Don't hook with a hooker', 'Kill the body and the head'll die', 'Move ya head or the other guy'll move it for ya.' Fritzy was Jake's trainer. I had got his mobile number from Jake, but put off dialling it for two days, afraid my voice would betray me as soft, privileged and generally unsuitable for instruction. When I did finally work up the nerve to call, I half-hoped nobody would pick up. But on the fifth ring, a voice, broad and rasping, answered: 'Fritzy here.' 'G'day,' I said, affecting the same kind of matey, flat-vowelled intonation my dad uses when talking to his mechanic. 'I was calling about getting some boxing lessons for me and a mate?' The sport of boxing provokes love, loathing and sometimes lust with equal intensity. It's a ticket out of poverty, a middle-class fascination and a promoter's goldmine; it can hook people with a primal burst of adrenaline and clinch them tight, or repel them utterly from the first jab. In On the Chin Alex McClintock uses his own unlikely progress through the a

Author

Alex McClintock

Publisher

The Text Publishing Company

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781925774672

Rating

4.6 / 5 (20 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14