Colleen Aycock, PhD (Rhetoric, Linguistics, and Literature from the University of Southern California) lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She has written historical biographies for Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol. Her most recent boxing book is The Magnificent Max Baer: The Life of the Heavyweight Champion and Film Star. She is on the editorial board of the International Boxing Research Organization and member the New Mexico Boxing Hall of Fame.
Pop culture will forever remember Tommy Morrison for two things: his unanimous-decision win over George Foreman in 1993 for the WBO Heavyweight Championship, and for his co-starring role with Sylvester Stallone in Rocky V. What writer Acevedo makes certain in this book is that Morrison will also be remembered for his fantastic lies and crazed behavior.
It will take some patience, concentration, and interest to ferret out and connect the pieces of this pugilistic pie, but it is worth the effort.
Jonathan Eig has compiled the most interesting and informative details from the best of the Muhammad Ali biographers, boxing historians, and Ali’s friends and family to give readers a comprehensive look at a complex life both blessed and cursed by the sports world’s toughest profession.
By interviewing so many of the second Ali-Liston fight’s participants and their direct descendants before their information slips away and is lost to us forever, Rob Sneddon has added remarkably to the history of boxing.