Making the Weight: Boxing's Lethal Secret (90 Minutes Shorts Book 2)
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| Rating | : | 4.70 (538 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00CP8ZG90 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 100 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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Fascinating The road to hell, they say, is paved with good intentions. Whyte's Making the Weight is both an enthralling narrative and a timely work of investigative journalism that reveals, through the use of hard data and human stories, how boxing's well-meaning effort to keep f. Top-notch journalism Patrick Egan Barry Whyte packages exhaustive reporting, a deep knowledge of boxing (and sports in general), and deft writing into a powerful story told that will grab any reader who loves long-form sports journalism. The tragedy of Joey Gamache tells you almost everything about wh. Not a boxing fan but I'm not a fan of boxing but I found this article to be a fascinating study of the dangers of dehydration in boxing. This is a serious issue in many sports and this won't be the last we hear of this.
Barry J Whyte examines the dangers of boxing’s 24-hour weigh-in by looking into the far-reaching consequences of a fight between Joey Gamache and Arturo Gatti in February 2000. He shines a light on a controversial system which allows boxers to ‘boil down’ for the weigh-in the day before the fight then pile the weight back on in the time left before stepping into the ring. He exposes the extreme physiological dangers both boxers are subject to under this flawed system.