Damage has been shortlisted for the 2021 William Hill Sports Book of The Year award!
-This is the book that boxing has always needed...It is shattering yet moving, informative yet tender...An essential read for anyone who cares about boxing and its courageous, damaged fighters.--Donald McRae, The Guardian
-Anyone who loves boxing-even the sport''s most die-hard supporters-must take a longer and more serious look at the issues that Tris Dixon writes about with such nuance and humanity in Damage...--Greg Bishop, Senior Writer, Sports Illustrated
It-s an old story-a fighter gains fame, drives fast cars, makes piles of cash, and dates beautiful women. Then comes the fall-booze, drugs, depression, poverty, illness. This dark narrative has been playing out for a hundred years.
Doctors first identified -Punch Drunk Syndrome- in 1928. It later became known as -Dementia Pugilistica.- Today, we call it CTE (chronic traumati
