Drama in the Bahamas, Dave Hannigan
Drama in the Bahamas, Dave Hannigan
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Drama in the Bahamas
Muhammad Ali's Last Fight

Author: Dave Hannigan

Narrator: JD Jackson

Unabridged: 7 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/09/2016


Synopsis

On December 11, 1981, Muhammad Ali slumped on a chair in the cramped, windowless locker room of a municipal baseball field outside Nassau. A phalanx of sportswriters had pushed and shoved their way into this tiny, breeze-blocked space. In this most unlikely of settings, they had come to record the last moments of the most storied of all boxing careers. They had come to intrude upon the grief.

"It's over," mumbled Ali. "It's over."

The show that had entertained and wowed from Zaire to Dublin, from Hamburg to Manila, finally ended its twenty-one-year run, the last performance not so much off-Broadway, more amateur theater in the boondocks.

In Drama in the Bahamas, Dave Hannigan tells the occasionally poignant, often troubling, yet always entertaining story behind Ali's last bout. Through interviews with many of those involved, he discovers exactly how and why, a few weeks short of his fortieth birthday, a seriously diminished Ali stepped through the ropes one more time to get beaten up by Trevor Berbick.

About Dave Hannigan

Dave Hannigan is a columnist with the Irish Times (Dublin), the Evening Echo (Cork), and the Irish Echo (New York). A professor of history at Suffolk County Community College on Long Island, he resides in Setauket, New York. Drama in the Bahamas is his ninth book.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ben

With very few exceptions (Peyton Manning comes to mind, though thanks to his defense and not his remaining ability), an athlete's final act is almost always a pitiable fall from grace. The athlete refuses to believe that age and wear and tear have made him softer, weaker, and more beatable. And perh......more

Goodreads review by Gary

An excellent chronicle of one of the saddest days in professional sports: Ali can't fight but he can still get beaten up just about better than anyone else. Sadly his ego drove him to prove himself in the ring 5 years past when doctors informed him he had suffered irreversible kidney damage and ther......more

Goodreads review by Joe

There is a common maxim that “all political careers end in failure”, and this adage could be equally applied to professional boxers. Few boxing careers have had an unhappier conclusion than that of Muhammad Ali. “Drama in the Bahamas” is the Irish sportswriter Dave Hannigan’s account of the build-up......more

I think many boxing fans associate Ali's fight with Larry Holmes as his last one. If you saw the fight, you would agree it should have been his last one. However Ali was coaxed and convinced that he had more boxing left in him. This book covers Ali's last fight. It covers his license battles with th......more