In The Red Corner by John Duncan
John Duncan, sports correspondent with the Guardian, needs a change- he leaves his job and moves to Havana, with a deal from Frank Warren to arrange a fight between Mike Tyson and Cuban double Olympic champion Felix Savon, the world's two greatest living heavyweights. However, professional boxing is illegal in Cuba, Castro having banned it in 1961, and Felix Savon had already turned down the $25 million purse offered by Don King to fight Tyson. So John Duncan spent a year negotiating with Cuban bureaucracy in an attempt to pull off the impossible, and arrange a professional fight in the last bastion of Communism, where money does not buy everything.John Duncan's acccount of a year spent in the maelstrom of Havanna's heat and bureacracy is intercut with portraits of Cuba's most famous boxing legends including Teofilo Stevenson, Benny "Kid" Paret, Black Bill, Angel Espinosa and Kid Chocolate. In the Red Corner is a reflection on the noble and often dirty art of boxing, both past and present.| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780224060943 |
| ISBN 10 | 0224060945 |
| Title | In The Red Corner |
| Author | John Duncan |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2001-03-01 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |