Damage av Tris Dixon

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<p><b><i>Damage</i> has been shortlisted for the 2021 William Hill Sports Book of The Year award!<br><br></b><b>¿This is the book that boxing has always needed...It is shattering yet moving, informative yet tender...An essential read for anyone who cares about boxing and its courageous, damaged fighters.¿¿Donald McRae, <i>The Guardian</i></b><br><br><b>¿Anyone who loves boxing¿even the sport''s most die-hard supporters¿must take a longer and more serious look at the issues that Tris Dixon writes about with such nuance and humanity in Damage...¿¿Greg Bishop, Senior Writer, <i>Sports Illustrated</i></b><br><br>It¿s an old story¿a fighter gains fame, drives fast cars, makes piles of cash, and dates beautiful women. Then comes the fall¿booze, drugs, depression, poverty, illness. This dark narrative has been playing out for a hundred years.<br><br>Doctors first identified ¿Punch Drunk Syndrome¿ in 1928. It later became known as ¿Dementia Pugilistica.¿ Today, we call it CTE (chronic traumati