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In This Corner . . . !

Forty-two World Champions Tell Their Stories

Peter Heller author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Hachette Books

Published:22nd Aug '94

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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, José Torres, Carmen Basilio, Joe Louis, Willie Pep, and Archie Moore,on boxers, racketeers, drugs, payoffs, managers. Including two never-before-published interviews with Roberto Durán and Alexis Argüello, this newly expanded and updated edition of In This Corner. . . ! is undoubtedly the best one-volume history of boxing ever written.

ISBN: 9780306806032

Dimensions: 215mm x 142mm x 28mm

Weight: 548g

456 pages