March 2016: boxer Chris Eubank Jr stops his opponent Nick Blackwell in round ten of a British title fight. What he saw and heard would transform his view of the sport he loves and force him to question his own complicity. In Dog Rounds, Worsell goes in search of boxers who have killed in the ring.
A boxing book which pulls no punches, as the author describes a match between Chris Eubank Jr and Nick Blackwell in March 2016 which left Blackwell in a coma for seven days. Elliott Worsell is a lifelong boxing fan and journalist, and witnessing this event left him questioning himself and the sport. He researches men who have been killed in the ring, and uncovers a raw and unflinching story of tragedy in boxing.
My kind of book, by my kind of writer