Book review: Loser and Still Champion

• Budd Schulberg, Loser and Still Champion: Muhammad Ali(London, 1972)

A short book written in the aftermath of Muhammad Ali’s first professional defeat, in the ‘Fight of the Century’ at Madison Square Garden, the first of his three epics against Joe Frazier.

The context is long lost, but it’s still a book that can be enjoyed by fans of Ali, not to mention fans of Schulberg’s prose.