First edition hardback A Hurting Business, a deeply moving and raw memoir written by the Glaswegian author Thomas Healy The narrative provides a ringside seat to monumental, brutal historical fights featuring legends like Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, Sonny Liston, George Foreman, and Mike Tyson Alongside the ring accounts, Healy candidly explores his own internal and external struggles outside the ropes. Raised in a Glasgow slum, his personal landscape was shaped by street violence, severe alcoholism, and the complex journey of coming to terms with his own sexuality in a hypermasculine culture