Eugene S. Robinson, "Fight: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Ass-Kicking but Were Afraid You'd Get Your Ass Kicked for Asking" 
English | ISBN: 0061189227 | 2007 | 224 pages

Eugene Robinson's Fight ΓÇô an engrossing, intimate look into the allΓÇôabsorbing world of fighting. Robinson ΓÇô a former bodyΓÇôbuilder, oneΓÇôtime bouncer, and lifelong fight connoisseur ΓÇô takes readers on a noΓÇôholdsΓÇôbarred plunge into what fighting is all about, and what fighters live for. If George Plimpton had muscles and had been choked out one too many timesΓÇôΓÇôthis is the book he could have written.

Fight is part encyclopedia, part panegyric to fighting in all its forms and glory. Robinson's narrative ΓÇô told in his trademark toughΓÇôguy, streamΓÇôofΓÇôconsciousness noir voice ΓÇô punctuates this explanatory compendium of the fighting world. From wrestling, jiuΓÇôjitsu, boxing and muay thai to bar fighting, handΓÇôtoΓÇôhand combat, prison fighting and hockey fights, from the greatest movie fight scenes to how to throw the perfect left hook, Fight is a sceneΓÇôbyΓÇôscene tour of the bloody but beautiful underworld that is the art of fighting.

With his aficionado's enthusiasm and fastΓÇôpaced, addictive voice, Robinson's Fight combines compelling text with beautiful photographs to create an illustrated book as edgy and interesting as it is gorgeous.