Fight: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Ass-Kicking but Were Afraid You'd Get Your Ass Kicked for Asking

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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.

What Customers Say About Fight: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Ass-Kicking but Were Afraid You'd Get Your Ass Kicked for Asking:

The writing style did not connect with my sense of humor. I had to struggle to finish this book. Overall the book could have more substance and some sort of red line between the different topics. Some parts of it were just boring. In some interviews I got confused a lot about who was talking of what (the interviewee about himself, the author about the interviewee or the author about himself). There are better books about fighting than this one. On the positive side it has some fun references to popular culture and some of the stories were quite interesting.

Great book, very well written, tons of storys and anecdotes that will make you laugh and that will conjur some deep thoughts.If you are into the world of MMA and/or combat sports it is a must read.

Reading this book was kind of like watching a good DVD, I don't know how to make that statement make more sense so I won't try. I enjoyed the book. Its worth a read.

Awesome book. If you like people getting punched in the face, and reading (yeah, it's possible)., you'll like this. Great book, cool pics and fun times.

Think of the internal monologue of Tyler Durden from "Fight Club" if he fought Roy Jones Jr. I was happy I did.This book touches on many of the forms fighting takes, some of which I was interested in and others, I found compelling by virtue of Mr. As a longtime listener of the webcast "Knuckle Up", I'd heard the rantings about this book and, without a Paypal account, figured this is as good a way to support the art. instead of Jared Leto. Robinson's prose. Unique and unflinchingly honest, his writing is coupled with the humility of one who's faced -and lost- to many of the luminaries, legends and reprobates of the fight world. Now make him NOT gay, and you pretty much got this book.I'm confident that if Mr. Robinson wrote about dog shows, he'd find the madness within the reason that people engage in those things too -and I'd find it just as much fun to read- but given this book is about our most basic alpha-male communication tool, I feel there are few writers today that can lend his insight.