Fight Town

Tourists pour into Las Vegas each summer to bask in the hot sun and frolic in the beautiful hotel pools, to indulge in fine dining (and extravagant buffets), to walk up and down the Strip hypnotized by the neon lights, and of course, to win millions of dollars at the crap tables. But Vegas is also known as the boxing capital of the world.  With exuberance and style, sports journalist Tim Dahlberg takes readers on a journey through Fight Town, the other Las Vegas.

Each year Thomas Hauser, of SecondsOut.com, publishes a “top forty” list of what he considers to be the best books on boxing. Included in this year’s list: Fight Town by Tim Dahlberg, which Hauser describes as “well-designed with excellent photographs and offers an informative history of boxing in the city that has become the fight capitol of the world.”

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Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist Kevin Iole has spoken to Tim Dahlberg about the author’s fascination with boxing.  Respected sports writer and author of Fight Town, Dahlberg, comments on the story lines and personalities of boxing champions that make his work worthwhile.

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