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This Boxing Game Book Review

YOU don’t have to be an avid boxing fan to enjoy this book.

In fact, I highly recommend anyone who isn’t in love with the sport to pick it up: by the end, not only will you have a new-found respect for those who put on the the gloves, you will find yourself scouring YouTube for old fights of the men mentioned in it.

For someone with only a passing interest in boxing, mostly down to John Wight’s columns in the Star, I was gripped from start to finish by his words.

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