Drama in the Bahamas: Muhammad Ali’s Last Fight Audiobook (Free)

On December 11, 1981, Muhammad Ali slumped on a seat in the cramped, windowless locker area of a municipal football field outside Nassau. A phalanx of sportswriters acquired forced and shoved their way into this tiny, breeze-blocked space. With this most unlikely of settings, they had come to record the last moments of the most storied of all boxing careers. They had come to intrude upon the grief.

‘It’s over,’ mumbled Ali. ‘It’s over.’

The show that had entertained and wowed from Zaire to Dublin, from Hamburg to Manila, finally ended its twenty-one-year run, the last performance not really much off-Broadway, more amateur theater in the boondocks.

In Drama in the Bahamas, Dave Hannigan tells the occasionally poignant, often troubling, however always entertaining tale behind Ali’s last bout. Through interviews with a lot of those included, he discovers exactly how and why, a couple weeks in short supply of his fortieth birthday, a significantly reduced Ali stepped through the ropes one more time to obtain beaten up by Trevor Berbick.