Facing Ali

Experience for the first time what it felt like to face Ali in the ring through accounts of the people that were there up close Muhammed Ali cast a blinding light onto his sport on the tumultuous times he in part initiated on all of those who surrounded him and who surround him still. That includes the fighters brave enough to stand alone across the ring from the greatest heavyweight champion of all time. Alis own story has been told again and again but the stories of those who faced him have by and large been ignored. For each the moments alone with Ali changed their careers changed their lives and affected them for ever. FACING ALI tells the story of fifteen men from around the world from famous names like Joe Frazier Joe Bugner George Foreman and Henry Cooper to lesser lights like Tunney Hunsaker and Jurgen Blin. Each man many for the first time tell their stories in their own words. The resulting book offers a unique perspective on what it was really like to fight Ali and gives new insights into the character of the most famous man on the planet.