BOXING fans can pick up each book by Tris Dixon with confidence it will be good. Warrior, Dixon’s biography of Mathew Saad Muhammad (Pitch Publishing), continues this tradition.
Maxwell Antonio Loach (the fighter’s original name) was born in 1954 and abandoned at age four on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia. After being found, he was taken to a Catholic orphanage. When asked his name, all he could answer was “Maa, Maa.” So the nuns named him Matthew with Franklin (the roadway where he was found) added as his surname.
Matthew found acceptance on the streets and served time in a juvenile detention facility. Eventually, he turned to boxing, which gave him hope and aspirations. As Dixon notes, he’d had neither before. At 19, he
