Description
"A great champion reveals himself, shares his experience and passes on the secrets of his success. This is the essence of the "Great Witnesses to Sport" collection, which offers the reader the opportunity to meet the men and women who make up the legends of sport through a question-and-answer session. Who better than former world boxing champion Jean-Marc Mormeck to inaugurate this new editorial adventure? Throughout these pages, the man who propelled French boxing into the world spotlight lifts the veil on his greatest victories, but also on his doubts and wounds.From his early childhood in Guadeloupe to a plunge into the unknown of a neighborhood of Bobigny in the Paris region at the age of 6, from a boxing gym in the suburbs to the light of the biggest rings in the world such as Madison Square Garden, from his collaboration with Don King to his stay in Mandela's South Africa where he was welcomed as a hero, from his historic victories against Virgil Hill to his terrible defeat against Wladimir Klitschko, Jean-Marc Mormeck reveals the different facets of his extraordinary journey.A great testimony, a book of interviews that opens a window on the backstage of one of the most beautiful success stories of French sport.
