In This Corner . . . !: Forty-two World Champions Tell Their Stories

In This Corner . . . !: Forty-two World Champions Tell Their Stories

by PeterHeller (Editor)

Synopsis

Here is Jake LaMotta discussing his career as a hoodlum Floyd Patterson on growing up in the ghetto Gunboat Smith on the Jack Johnson era Jack Dempsey on the Willard fight and the Tunney long count Rocky Graziano on showbiz and dozens of others,including Sugar Ray Robinson, Willie Pastrano, Jose Torres, Carmen Basilio, Joe Louis, Willie Pep, and Archie Moore,on boxers, racketeers, drugs, payoffs, managers. Including two never-before-published interviews with Roberto Duran and Alexis Arguello, this newly expanded and updated edition of In This Corner. . . ! is undoubtedly the best one-volume history of boxing ever written.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 462
Edition: 2
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 01 Aug 1994

ISBN 10: 0306806037
ISBN 13: 9780306806032

Author Bio
Peter Heller is the author of Bad Intentions: The Mike Tyson Story. A sports producer for ABC News, he lives in Putnam Valley, New York and Boca Raton, Florida.