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Looking to kick someone's teeth in? Just back from the dentist from having YOUR teeth kicked in? Either way, Fight is the book YOU NEED. Whether you're looking to stay out of trouble, you'll be drawin in by the riveting and dramatic visuals, the addictive narrative voice, and the edgy
Robinson-a former bodybuilder, onetime bouncer, and lifelong fight connoisseur-takes readers on a no-holds-barred plunge into what fighitng is all about, and what fights live for: the feel of muscles slippery with sweat; the metallic tang of blood mingling with saliva in the mouth; the sweet, firm thud of taped knuckles impacting flesh. For the love of laying it all on the line-for the love of the fight.
Fight is Eugene S. Robinson's highly opinionated idiosyncratic look at fighting in all its forms and glory,including boxing, wrestling, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and Muay Thai; bar fighting, knife fighting, prison fighting, and hockey fighing. There are interviess wit some of the biggest names inall facets of the fight game, as well as Robinson's lists of the greatest (and worst) movie fight scenes, the most out-of-control sports brawls, and his instructions on how to throw the perfect left hook. Come an take the scene-by-scene tour of the bloody but beautiful underworld that is the art of fighting.
Eugene S. Robinson has written for GQ, The Wire, Grappling, L.A. Weekly, Vice, Hustler, and Decibel, among many others. He has also been editor-in-chief of Code and EQ. He grew up in Brooklyn, New York, where he first understood the surreal joy of a bloody nose obtained through fighting. The 6' 1', 235-pound Robinson has studed boxing, kenpo karate, Muay Thai, wrestling, and Brazilian jiu-jitsu. He is also the vocalist and front man for Oxbow, a raock group cum fight club whose most recent album, The Narcotic Story, was released in 2007. He ives in the San Francisco area.
Contents
Introduction Fighting: Why not?
One What the heall are you looking at?
Two Let's get it on
Three Far East fighting for fun and profit
Four Jailhouse rock
Five There's nothing quite like breaking another man's jaw
Six Curbs, car doors & you
Seven The real sad and weepy part of our story
Eight The only fight sport mentioned in the Bible
Nine I, Spartacus!
Ten So your ear's been bitten by Mike Tyson
Eleven So you've been beaten up...or, what the hell are you looking at? Part 2
Twelve So you're knocked out: Options to consider
Thirteen 'I killed a man'
Fourteen I, soccer hooligan!
Fifteen Holiday on ice, or, what to do when confronted by an angry Canadian with a stick
Sixteen I stoop to conquer
Acknowledgments
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blood-and-sweat attitude in Eugene S. Robinson's homage to the art of asskickery. As Robinson says, ripping off John Milius, 'Crushing your enemies, driving them before you, and hearing the lamentations of their women? It doesn't get any better than this.'Robinson-a former bodybuilder, onetime bouncer, and lifelong fight connoisseur-takes readers on a no-holds-barred plunge into what fighitng is all about, and what fights live for: the feel of muscles slippery with sweat; the metallic tang of blood mingling with saliva in the mouth; the sweet, firm thud of taped knuckles impacting flesh. For the love of laying it all on the line-for the love of the fight.
Fight is Eugene S. Robinson's highly opinionated idiosyncratic look at fighting in all its forms and glory,including boxing, wrestling, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and Muay Thai; bar fighting, knife fighting, prison fighting, and hockey fighing. There are interviess wit some of the biggest names inall facets of the fight game, as well as Robinson's lists of the greatest (and worst) movie fight scenes, the most out-of-control sports brawls, and his instructions on how to throw the perfect left hook. Come an take the scene-by-scene tour of the bloody but beautiful underworld that is the art of fighting.
Eugene S. Robinson has written for GQ, The Wire, Grappling, L.A. Weekly, Vice, Hustler, and Decibel, among many others. He has also been editor-in-chief of Code and EQ. He grew up in Brooklyn, New York, where he first understood the surreal joy of a bloody nose obtained through fighting. The 6' 1', 235-pound Robinson has studed boxing, kenpo karate, Muay Thai, wrestling, and Brazilian jiu-jitsu. He is also the vocalist and front man for Oxbow, a raock group cum fight club whose most recent album, The Narcotic Story, was released in 2007. He ives in the San Francisco area.
Contents
Introduction Fighting: Why not?
One What the heall are you looking at?
Two Let's get it on
Three Far East fighting for fun and profit
Four Jailhouse rock
Five There's nothing quite like breaking another man's jaw
Six Curbs, car doors & you
Seven The real sad and weepy part of our story
Eight The only fight sport mentioned in the Bible
Nine I, Spartacus!
Ten So your ear's been bitten by Mike Tyson
Eleven So you've been beaten up...or, what the hell are you looking at? Part 2
Twelve So you're knocked out: Options to consider
Thirteen 'I killed a man'
Fourteen I, soccer hooligan!
Fifteen Holiday on ice, or, what to do when confronted by an angry Canadian with a stick
Sixteen I stoop to conquer
Acknowledgments
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ISBN
61189227
Publication
Harper An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers