My view from the corner : a life in boxing
Dundee, Angelo2009
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Former boxer Angelo Dundee presents his own take on the boxing world, along with Boxing Hall of Famer Bert Sugar. Dundee delivers a candid, behind-the-scenes look at his involvement in some of boxing's most controversial and historic moments.Boxing's greatest trainer reveals all In My View from the Corner, Dundee delivers a candid, behind-the-scenes look at his involvement in some of boxing's most controversial and historic moments. Pulling no punches and telling it like it really was, Dundee breaks decades of silence to reveal how he had to talk Ali into not quitting during his first fight with champion Sonny Liston; the truth about the "phantom punch" that KO'd Liston in their rematch; what he did and did not do to assure an Ali victory against George Foreman during their "Rumble in the Jungle" in Zaire; how Howard Cosell filed a false report about the Ray Leonard-Roberto Duran fight that will not die to this day; the mob's influence on boxing; his true feelings on Ali's conversion to Islam; and what it was like to train Russell Crowe for his role in Cinderella Man.
Main title:
My view from the corner : a life in boxing / Angelo Dundee with Bert Randolph Sugar.
Imprint:
New York ; London : McGraw-Hill, [2009?]
Collation:
vii, 327 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: 2008.Includes index.
Contents:
Foreword by Muhammad Ali 1. Fifty-Plus Years in the Fight Game: How Did I Get Here? 2. My Apprenticeship with Brother Chris 3. Miami Beach and My First Champion 4. Cassius Clay 5. Young Cassius Punches His Ticket to the Top 6. Baiting and Beating the Bear 7. Boxing Becomes Cassius Clay Who Becomes Muhammad Ali 8. A Champion in Training, A Champion in Exile 9. "The Fight," March 8, 1971 10. The Road Back 11. The Rumble in the Jungle, October 30, 1974 12. The Thrilla in Manilla, October 1, 1975? 13. Boxing's Greatest Act Leaves the Stage 14. Filling Ali's Size-50 Shoes 15. Duran: "No Mas"? No Way, No Say 16. Hearns, Retirement--And Then A "Marvelous" Comeback 17. The 40-Year-Old Champ 18. Memories Are Made of This Afterword by George Foreman
ISBN:
97800716284719780071628471 (pbk)
Dewey class:
796.83B796.83092
Language:
English
BRN:
2096139
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