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Drama in the Bahamas

Muhammad Ali's Last Fight

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On December 11, 1981, Muhammad Ali slumped on a chair in the cramped, windowless locker room of a municipal baseball field outside Nassau. A phalanx of sportswriters had pushed and shoved their way into this tiny, breeze-blocked space. In this most unlikely of settings, they had come to record the last moments of the most storied of all boxing careers. They had come to intrude upon the grief.

"It's over," mumbled Ali. "It's over."

The show that had entertained and wowed from Zaire to Dublin, from Hamburg to Manila, finally ended its 21-year run, the last performance not so much off-Broadway, more amateur theater in the boondocks.

In Drama in the Bahamas, Dave Hannigan tells the occasionally poignant, often troubling, yet always entertaining story behind Ali's last bout. Through interviews with many of those involved, he discovers exactly how and why, a few weeks short of his 40th birthday, a seriously diminished Ali stepped through the ropes one more time to get beaten up by Trevor Berbick.

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The inside track of the exploitation of Ali. We'll researched . The reading of it truly brings the story to life and the man reading it even does subtle voice changes for various characters.

Sad story told majestically.

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Well read and interesting. Shows how badly Ali was exploited, well worth listening to.

Heart Breaking story of the exploitation of Ali.

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Well researched, excellent narration. Narrator does a good job switching voices, pretty good one of an older Ali. If you are interested in pivotal moments in the history of boxing, this is for you. 👍

POIGNANT

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Was sad in many ways, but a good listen. Ali should never have taken the fight but by then I fear it was too late to save his health anyway. Berbick was just a tragic figure too in his own right

Sad book

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