About the book: 1974 / The twentieth book in the series “Sport and Personality” is about boxing. The educational functions of boxing as a tough and uncompromising sport, the formation of the character of a teenager, the problem of early maturation through a super-masculine sport - boxing, issues of moral and physical self-affirmation, the applied value of boxing - in such directions, Algirdas Šotsikas, an outstanding heavyweight boxer, develops the main idea of ​​his book. Honored Master of Sports of the USSR, Honored Coach of the USSR. As if by chance, Šotsikas’s phrase dropped in one of the chapters: “Boxing teaches a man by passport to become a man in fact” could become an excellent and accurate epigraph to his book, which he called “The Fourth Round».