{"product_id":"9781925773927","title":"On the Chin","description":"Author: McClintock, Alex\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781925773927\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: The Text Publishing Company\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 06 Aug 2019\u003cbr\u003ePages: 320 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe sporting memoir of an unlikely pugilist's attempt to take on Australia's amateur boxing circuit.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eI never thought of myself as the sort of person would enjoy seeing people hit each other, let alone enjoy hitting people myself. And as for getting hit . . . \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eBut I guess I am that sort of person, a fact that still surprises me if I think about it hard enough. How did that happen?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe sport of boxing provokes love, loathing and sometimes lust with equal intensity. It is practised by boors and aesthetes, thugs and intellectuals. It's a ticket out of poverty, a middle-class fascination and a promoter's goldmine. It can hook people with a primal burst of adrenaline and clinch them tight-or repel them utterly from the first jab.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eOn the Chin: A Boxing Education\u003c\/i\u003e, Alex McClintock uses his own unlikely progress through the amateur ranks as a springboard to explore the history, culture and contradictions of the sweet science-with detours through some of its notable characters, including:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBenny 'The Ghetto Wizard' Leonard, who took great pride in the fact that his hair remained immaculately Brylcreemed throughout his fights; Australian middleweight champion and cafe proprietor Luigi Colluzi, dubbed 'the boxing barista'; The immaculately named Trenton Titsworth, who was once docked two points for kissing his opponent on the neck; And Joe Louis, the great African-American fighter famously described as 'A credit to his race: the human race.'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eInformative, insightful and effortlessly entertaining,\u003ci\u003e On the Chin\u003c\/i\u003e is your essential guide to the art of hitting and getting hit.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48181170471070,"sku":"UBD-9781925773927","price":32.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781925773927.jpg?v=1787399680","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781925773927","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}