RaveThe Guardian (UK)Tris Dixon has written the book that boxing has always needed ... Dixon...confronts the damage done to fighters with unflinching honesty. It is shattering yet tender as Dixon charts the history and science of CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy), a brain condition caused by repeated blows to the head ... Dixon’s book is compassionate in the company of Frankie and Brenda Spinks—whose husband, Leon, shocked a faded Ali in the first of their two fights in 1978 ... I’d say the wives, women like Frankie and Brenda, are the real heroes. Their strength of character is what boxing needs to address the damage.
