Weight Class: A Fighter's Life-or-Death Battle with an Eating Disorder - Couverture souple

O'Connor, Danny

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798994528303

Editeur : Bite Like A Man LLC, 2026

Synopsis

WEIGHT CLASS is the story of Danny O’Connor, an elite athlete living with a male eating disorder in a sport that demands absolute obedience to the scale. From high school wrestling to the Olympic Games, to a professional boxing career at the highest level, extreme weight-cutting—starvation, dehydration, purging, collapse—was not only tolerated but normalized as preparation. Over time, discipline became self-destruction.

“They had no idea what had happened or what I was battling. All they knew was that some kid from Boston named O’Connor had failed to make weight for a world title fight on national television. From the outside, it could have looked like laziness—like I didn’t care enough or wasn’t disciplined enough. The truth was much darker: for more than two decades, I was fighting an eating disorder that was always a bigger opponent than the man standing across from me in the ring—an opponent that eventually put me in the hospital and nearly cost me my life.”

Told from a male perspective that is rarely acknowledged or documented, this memoir examines how life inside weight regulated sports can intersect with eating disorders when education, awareness, and early intervention are absent. O’Connor traces a twenty-year battle fought largely in silence—hidden from coaches, fans, friends, and even family.

WEIGHT CLASS confronts eating disorders as the widespread, life-threatening illnesses they are and traces the long, necessary work of survival and recovery—of reclaiming a life before it is lost. For any parent, coach, or athlete entering a weight-class sport anywhere in the world, this book stands as a necessary warning. For the millions of men and women still struggling with eating disorders in silence, it stands as a lifeline.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bite Like A Man LLC
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798994528303
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg