Thread: Real Boxers Appearances In Fiction

I'm just reading the series of books by Stieg Larsson, and in the second one "The Girl Who Played With Fire", there is a real boxer called Paolo Roberto who is included, and apparently in the films he plays himself.

I suppose we could include Mike Tyson in The Hangover, but boxers in films has already been done surely.

So I was thinking who else has appeared in fictional writing?

i had no idea that guy was a real person until now

read those books a couple of years ago. they are good but fuck me that guy goes on a bit. Why write something in one page when you can spread it over ten ?!?!

Originally Posted by Mark TKO

i had no idea that guy was a real person until now

read those books a couple of years ago. they are good but fuck me that guy goes on a bit. Why write something in one page when you can spread it over ten ?!?!

Isn't that what being a novelist is all about? Think of a story. Write story. Bugger it's only fifty pages long. Multiply, multiply, multiply. Have a novel sized story!

yes agreed but that guy writes standard length +33.33333%

and they are not even l;arge print


I swear he was making a point in last book by breaking the 600 page barrier - think it was 602 or something like that.

A guy at work summed up one of the books when he said 'is it me or does nothing happen for the first 250 pages' He had a point

I knew he was real cause he refers to losing to Sebastian Lujan who I had heard of so i looked on Boxrec awesome books sham the author died.

Originally Posted by piye

I knew he was real cause he refers to losing to Sebastian Lujan who I had heard of so i looked on Boxrec awesome books sham the author died.

Same with me. If there was no mention of Lujan then I probably wouldn't have even thought to look it up, but it was Lujan I recognised rather than Roberto.

Just finished the trilogy today, and got to say it was really good. I don't have a problem with the length, as I routinely read more fantasy stuff where a thousand page epic is often standard.