A Fighter’s Heart: One Man’s Journey Through the World of Fighting
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In 1999, after a series of wildly adventurous jobs around the world, Sam Sheridan establish himself in Australia, loaded with cash and intent on not effective until he’d spent it all. It occurred to him that, lacking distractions, he could finally indulge a long-dormant obsession: fighting. Within a year, he was in Bangkok training with the greatest fighter in muay Thai (Thai kickboxing) history and stepping through the ropes for a professional bout. That one fight wasn’t enough. Sheridan set out to test himself on an epic journey into how and why we fight, facing Olympic boxers, Brazilian jiu-jitsu stars, and Essential Fighting champions. Along the way, Sheridan delivers an insightful look at violence as a career and a spectator sport, a behind-the-pageantry glimpse of athletes at the top of their terrifying game. An extraordinary combination of gonzo television journalism and participatory sports writing, A Fighter’s Heart is a dizzying first-hand account of what it’s like to reach the peak of keenly disciplined personal aggression, to hit—and be hit.
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I was very excited to read the first chapter and was hoping the rest of the book would follow the same path. I was hoping for a book that follows the leader through his fight career, with a detailed look into his training. I soon learned I was incorrect. I get the sense that the leader,while genuinly into fighting, wrote the book to cash in on the recent popularity of fighting sports. First of all the book is way too choppy. It also has too many erect ups with no follow through. *SPOILER* The book really sets you up for his amateur boxing match, then lets you down. It then sets you up for a bare knuckle fight in Burma, then lets you down again. The part on hollywood fighting is appealing but out of place in the book in my opinion. I would pass on this book although the first few chapters are exciting.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
Sam Sheridan take us on a sometimes fascinating journey through the world of professional fighting and claims to examine the drive toward violent interaction. Sorry to say his book suffers from 2 major fleeting comings: lack of editing and lack of sufficient conclusion drawing.
With regards to editing he relates every uninteresting, unimportant detail of each of his explorations. He seems so desperate to have content, to show direct quotation that he includes superfluous conversation detail and environmental notes. He is obviously trying to draw context and mood, illustrate the right scenery of his subjects, which is very valuable but the extremely poor job he does betrays a simple fact- he is not a skilled writer. As he admits in the book he is a fight fan who figured out how to finance a personal interest.
As to conclusions, he has few. Basically we get the overly detailed minutia of his trips and experiences, peppered with discordant observations. These small insights do not flow well and are repeated. He has really one or two insights into the scenery/draw of fighting (both of which he gets from additional people) and continually repeats them lacking explanation or further exploration. The fact is, he was fleeting on content and forced a 300 pager.
The additional issue I had with this book is his sycophantic praise of all things MMA (Mixed Martial Arts- like what you see at a UFC event). It is dull and labored listening to all the excellent things he has to say about it and why it, and it’s participants are better then all additional fighting/fighters. If you are into MMA and want personal validation then maybe this is the book for you. If you want a real exploration of fighting and the psychosis of masculinity, don’t waste the money.
PLOT SPOILER: It’s also worth noting that due to a string of injuries and shady dealings Mr. Sheridan only participated in two fights over the 6 or so years that elapse in the space of the book. In additional words, what does he really know about fighting?
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
MANY MEN CAN FIGHT BUT NOT EVERY MAN HAS HEART OR BOTTLE, SAM SHERIDAN HAS BOTH, A STORY OF A MANS COURAGE IN THE WORLD OF FIGHTING. HES TRAINED AND FOUGHT WITH THE BIG BOYS OF THE SPORT AND HAS DONE MOST OF IT WHILST INJURED. A GOOD STORY ABOUT ONE MANS DETERMINATION TO PUSH HIMSELF WHERE OTHERS WOULDNT.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
as i fan and participant in many martial arts over the years….this book truly touched at the core of it…..some of the book i felt like was paralleling my own experiences especially with the chronic injuries…..i had my shoulder thrown out doing jiu jitsu in rio as well….lots of rib injuries..haha…..all part of the adventure…..i highly recommend this read to anyone interested in the fighting arts….
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I could not place this book down. Sam Sheridan takes you inside the mind of a fighter and one learns that it is more than a vicious sport. I am a martial artist (Karate) and reading Sam’s passages was like taking my thoughts and seeing them in print for the first time.
Anyone involved in the martial arts or wanting to know the mind-set of a martial artist/fighter should read this book.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5