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In This Corner . . . !: Forty-two World Champions Tell Their Stories | 
 enlarge | Author: Peter Heller
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 726648
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Pages: 456
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.4 x 1
ISBN: 0306806037
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.830922
EAN: 9780306806032
ASIN: 0306806037
Publication Date: August 21, 1994
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Product Description
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 Argueello, 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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 Great start but got old quickly October 23, 2008
Peter (Melbourne Australia)
The premise of the book is excellent in that the history of the fighters should be preserved and we do need to document their stories but I think the book could have been written less as it was told, but more in the conventional manner in order to make it easier to read.
The stories started to blend together after a while, as they were a few pages each, all written as the fighter told the author, so the book lost some interest to me as it went along.
Perhaps more space to devoted to the old time fighters like Gunboat Smith and Willie Ritchie.
I might even have done away with the whole section on the fighter who was saying that he was an assassin when he was young. If you know they are telling a fiction story, don't waste your time.
The articles on fighters were a great read though. The author put a lot of work into it and should be commended.
 One of my favorite Boxing books October 4, 2006
Marc Axelrod (Potter, Wi USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
More than 40 world boxing champions tell their stories in this book, and some of them are fascinating. I especially enjoyed the defiant discourse of Roberto Duran, the colorful stories of Archie Moore (especially his conversation about his rivalry with Jimmy Bivins, who hit him so hard with a late punch that his mouth was numb for months), and Carmen Basilio, who steadfastly maintains that Sugar Ray Robinson was overrated.
I liked Emile Griffith's poignant retelling of what transpired before and after his fateful third meeting with Benny "Kid" Paret. It was interesting to listen to James J Braddock talk about his fights with Max Baer and Joe Louis and what his life was like after retirement.
This is a knockout of a book, and all boxing fans should read it at least once.
Rev. Marc Axelrod
One of the best boxing history documents ever put in print February 15, 2004
Cwn_Annwn (Copenhagen, Denmark)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
One of my favorite boxing books ever. Put out in the 1970's, In This Corner is a collection of interviews done by Peter Heller with retired former world champion prizefighters who were champions anywhere from the 1910's to the 1960's. I count a lot of the old time prize fighters among my heroes.
 4 stars for the research employed in the book September 29, 2003
William D. Tompkins (New York, New York USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
i gave this 4 stars for the hard work on the road the author put to gather these interviews from boser--a lot of whom probably we never would not have heard from again if he did not compile these interviews
my criticisms of the book are that a lot of the writing from both the author and subjects are too many run on sentences flowing endlessly making it hard to stay interested
helloloverhowhaveyoubeen January 27, 2000
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a fast reading book, the author knows what he is talking about - thank goodness If you are a boxing fan I truly recommend this.....
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