Product Description

The Cage is a ring enclosed by a steel box where participants are urged to fight to the death - an illegal sport that attracts some of the world's richest and most powerful people as its shadowy patrons. This is the true story of the star of this deadly sport. In this compelling account of his fight for survival, "X" tells of his twelve-year career in The Cage. Transported to fights like some medieval warlord, he was drugged by opponents against his will and almost murdered by a gang intent on preventing him taking on another fighter, because of his reputation as the most deadly opponent in the world. "X" breaks the sport's strict code of silence to tell, with Wensley Clarkson's help, how he started life on the mean streets, and was led into petty crime then - just months before his 16th birthday - recruited to become the star of this most deadly of sports.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #690202 in Books
• Published on: 2003-03-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 304 pages

About the Author
Wensley Clarkson has been a writer and journalist all his working life. He has had much contact with the criminal underworld having written 35 non-fiction books, and being published in eighteen countries, selling over two million copies.

Customer Reviews

I could not put it down
Once I picked this book up I could not put it down. It’s all about a promising young boxer who has his potential career wrecked in an attack. He then goes on to fight illegally in cages for money. It all happened around the East End and London and coming from this area I found it very interesting. I would recommend this book to anybody who is interested in a good real life storey with a real feeling of hope at the end. I hope I bump in to Carl one day and can shake his hand for giving me a great experience reading about his life. I wouldn’t want to spill his pint though!

Avoid
This book does not give any inside to illigal fights. It only scrapes on the surface of who organises, attends and participates in these activities.
I do not believe that the author himself actually knows anymore than he writes.
Throughout the book the author seems to be preoccupied to gain pitty about his harsh childhood and adolescent. His adulthood is portrait as being a 'nice' thug who only beats up bad people.
I read worst, but nor many.