Prizefighter : the searing autobiography of Britain's bareknuckle boxing champion
Heggie, Decca2017
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Decca's story is that of a bullied boy with an impossible dream. Of solvent abuse, violence, drug addiction, depression, boxing, bare-knuckle fighting, but - ultimately - redemption. It begins on a council estate in Carlisle where, as the victim of cruel bullies, a young Decca anaesthetized himself from the pain and humiliation by sniffing solvents. In his mid-teens the fear fell away to be replaced by fury, as the bullies soon discovered to their cost. Memories of that frightened boy fuelled a rage that forged a fearsome street-fighter and future champion. This is his story.
Main title:
Author:
Heggie, Decca, author
Imprint:
London : John Blake, 2017.
Collation:
xiv, 257 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781786063908 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
796.83092B HEG
Language:
English
BRN:
2220409