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Journalist and sports historian Rob Sneddon takes a fresh look at the infamous Muhammad AliSonny Liston fight on May 25, 1965, which ended in chaos at a high school hockey rink in Lewiston, Maine. Sneddon digs deep into the fights background and comes up with fascinating new takes on boxing promotion in the 1960s; on Alis rapid rise and Listons sudden fall; on how the bout ended up in Lewistonand, of course, on Alis phantom punch. That single lightning-quick blow triggered a complex chain reaction of events that few people understood, either then or now.

Author

Robert Sneddon

Publisher

Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781608933655

Subjects

Anthropology, Memoir, History