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Fight: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Ass-Kicking but Were Afraid You'd Get Your Ass Kicked for Asking |  | Author: Eugene S. Robinson
Publisher: Harper
Category: Book
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Rating:  24 reviews
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Media: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.3
Dimensions (in): 10.5 x 8.6 x 0.8
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.81
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Product Description
Crushing your enemies, driving them before you, and hearing the lamentations of their women? It doesn't get any better than this." –Eugene Robinson, ripping off John Milius That's the sentiment that surges just below the surface of Eugene Robinson's Fight – an engrossing, intimate look into the all–absorbing world of fighting. Robinson – a former body–builder, one–time bouncer, and lifelong fight connoisseur – takes readers on a no–holds–barred 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 times––this is the book he could have written. When Robinson and his fellow fighters mix it up, they live completely for the moment: absorbed in the feel of muscles slippery with sweat; the metallic tang of blood mingling with saliva in the mouth; the sweet, firm thud of taped knuckles impacting flesh. They fight because it feels good. They fight because they want to win. And even if they get their asses kicked, they fight because they love fighting. Fight is part encyclopedia, part panegyric to fighting in all its forms and glory. Robinson's narrative – told in his trademark tough–guy, stream–of–consciousness noir voice – punctuates this explanatory compendium of the fighting world. From wrestling, jiu–jitsu, boxing and muay thai to bar fighting, hand–to–hand combat, prison fighting and hockey fights, from the greatest movie fight scenes to how to throw the perfect left hook, Fight is a scene–by–scene tour of the bloody but beautiful underworld that is the art of fighting. With his aficionado's enthusiasm and fast–paced, addictive voice, Robinson's Fight combines compelling text with beautiful photographs to create an illustrated book as edgy and interesting as it is gorgeous.
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 I laughed, I cried, I even wet myself a little bit. May 20, 2010
Roy J. Oakes
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
In the spirit of full disclosure, I'm an Oxbow fan and an MMA fan so I knew going in that this was gonna be my kind of book. Look, if you don't like to read about fighting, read something else. If you like intelligent commentary on a subject that is an intrinsic part of our humanity, written by an author who is also a participant in what he's writing about, read this book. Myths are dispelled, humor is dispensed and information is delivered and it's a damn good read. After finishing the book, I downloaded the audio book, which I also recommend as a companion to the actual book. The "one finger punch" story is worth the download.
 If you like pictures and hate reading, this is the perfect book May 10, 2010
Ronald D. Bruner Jr.
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Ok, the writer is obviously a fight fan, not really a fighter per se. This guy tries WAAAAAAAAAY too hard to be like dennis Miller by subjecting obscure hipster lingo and catchphrases. It is almost impossible to figure out what he is talking about, but the pictures are great, the mini-paragraphs and polls are ok, but I would recommend buying this book used instead of paying the $35 cover price. I found my copy on Ebay for $4.99 Buy It Now plus $3.95 s/h. Not a good book, but not a horrible book.
Punching For Liberty May 6, 2010
S (Orbital Isolation)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Maybe not everything you wanted to know, it certainly gives enough information to get you into trouble. This is hardly an instructional text, though, more a punch-drunk wander through the various forms of fistic violence (and in a brilliant twist, a few pages dedicated to the shockingly scary stabbing arts.) Prison fights, punching on ice, primal urge expressed as multi-million dollar sporting spectacle - all are stumbled past with a reassuring "I just fell, I'll be ok."
The book is also lavishly regaled with pictures, which makes it an excellent adornment to decorative spaces. Perfect for dinner guests to thumb through to see the ghastly behaviours of poor people, just before you serve martini's and throw each others keys into a bowl.
Words from one who knows April 14, 2010
John M. Ratigan
Books about any non-fiction topic can be written by anyone with a publisher and access to Google. What gains a book quality, clout and "street-cred" is when a non-fiction topic is written about by someone directly and daily in the know. Someone who has experienced what he is writing about. Someone who knows the people he is writing about. Someone who can demonstrate the actions he is writing about.
Eugene Robinson has created the new template for the non-fiction approach.
He writes about fighting because he has fought. He writes about real fighters because he knows real fighters. He writes about how to fight because he ought to know how to fight by now...and does.
Add in a journalist's finesse, a mastery of language and enough humor to maintain even the most anti-fighter's interest and you've got a winner of the Golden Gloves award for books.
Buy it.
 I wouldn't reccommend February 18, 2010
Bradlee (ohio)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I enjoy reading in general, and lately I've been doing alot of reading on fighting and training. I thought this book would be a good combination of humor and information but I really found it uninteresting. The authors writing style just never made a connection with me. There were a couple of chapters that I liked and this is the only reason I gave it two stars instead of one. I found Forrest Griffins book much more entertaining and worthwhile.
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