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Jerry Izenberg's new book, ONCE THERE WERE GIANTS, is now on sale PhilBoxing.com Tue, 07 Feb 2017  ?I was there. So was Jerry Izenberg. This is the way it was.? ?Larry Holmes, former heavyweight champion ?I have yet to find someone with as much knowledge of boxing as Jerry Izenberg.? ?Joe Cortez, Hall of Fame referee A celebration and memorial of the greatest era of heavyweight fighters from 1962 to 1997, as witnessed ringside by a sportswriter. Once There Were Giants The Golden Age of Heavyweight Boxing By Jerry Izenberg A new book from legendary sportswriter Jerry Izenberg, as witnessed throughout his illustrious sixty-year career. Of all the memories made in ballparks and arenas from California to New York, there was nothing to rival that magic moment that could grab a heavyweight fight crowd by its collective jugular vein and trigger a tsunami of raw emotion before a single punch had even been thrown. That?s the way it was when the heavyweight giants danced in the boxing ring during the golden eras of the greats. Included are Izenberg?s observations and reflections on legendary fights such as Ali-Frazier III in Manila, Ali-Forman in Zaire, and the championship fights of Mike Tyson, Larry Holmes, Evander Holyfield, and many others. There will never again be a heavyweight cycle like the one that began when Sonny Liston stopped Floyd Patterson and ended when Mike Tyson bit a slice out of Evander Holyfield?s ear; when no ersatz drama, smoke, mirrors, and noise followed a fighter?s entry into the ring; when the crowds knew that these men were not actors on a stage but rather giants in a ring with a single purpose?to fight other giants. Acclaimed sportswriter Jerry Izenberg watched history as it was being made during those legendary days, witnessing fights like the Thrilla in Manila and the Rumble in the Jungle and preserving them in punchy yet tremendous prose. Delivering both his eyewitness accounts and revelatory back stories of this greatest era of heavyweight boxing, Izenberg invites readers to a place of recollection. Once There Were Giants is his memorial to this extraordinary time, the likes of which we shall never see again. About the Author Jerry Izenberg has been a sportswriter and columnist at the Star-Ledger for fifty-four of his sixty-five years in the business. He has been inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame, the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Hall of Fame, and the Sports Hall of Fame of New Jersey, and he is the only sportswriter to be inducted into the New Jersey Literary Hall of Fame. He won the Associated Press?s Red Smith Award for distinguished contributions to sports journalism as well as the Fleischer Award for Boxing Journalism. Izenberg has covered fifty Kentucky Derbies and is one of the two sports columnists to have covered all fifty Super Bowls. He is married with four children and nine grandchildren. He lives in Henderson, Nevada.  |
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