About the book
In 1999, after a run of adventurous jobs around the world, Sam Sheridan was in Australia with cash saved and no plan to work until it was spent, so he turned to a long-dormant obsession with fighting. Within a year he was training in Bangkok with the greatest fighter in muay Thai history and taking a professional bout. One fight was not enough, and he went on to test himself against Brazilian jiu-jitsu stars, Olympic boxers and champions of mixed martial arts. Mixing participatory sports writing with gonzo journalism, Sheridan examines violence both as a career and as a spectator sport, and what it feels like to hit and be hit.
Andrew Huberman said in a podcast conversation that it was a book he had read years earlier and enjoyed, and Ryan Holiday named it, with A Fighter's Mind, among the best books he read in 2014, urging readers not to be put off by the subject.
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Ryan Holiday (Founder/Brass Check)
I read both of Sam Sheridan’s books A Fighter’s Heart and A Fighter’s Mind this year and they are both spectacular. Don’t be put off by the subject matter. They are good.
But years ago I read a book that I really enjoyed, which is Sam Sheridan's book "A Fighter's Heart."
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