RaveThe Wall Street JournalMr. Dixon’s book lands with power and precision. For boxing fans, it’s a wake-up call ... Even for readers who are not aficionados of the sweet science, Damage hits hard ... Mr. Dixon tackles his subject with great compassion ... It is boxing’s unwillingness or inability to address the long-term damage caused by the sport that represents this book’s most damning critique. The sport has had decades to devise systems to mitigate the crisis—Mr. Dixon outlines many in the book—but has remained willfully ignorant.
