Here is a close-up look at the trainers who shaped boxing champions like Joe Louis, Rocky Graziano, Jake LaMotta, and other greats. Colorful and fast paced, this narrative spans the period from 1916, when the renowned trainer Ray Arcel saw Jack Dempsey fight John Johnson to the present day. Photos.
It is Christmas of 2002. Joseph Steiner, a New York television executive, has just lost his job in the economic downturn that followed 9/11. America is about to invade Iraq, and the world is losing sympathy for its only superpower. As for Steiner, his run of good luck and privilege seems to be coming to an end. Steiner and his wife Mary, a severe ...
Vincent Rosen is a schoolteacher with a trust fund who has taken a vastly different path in life than has his father, a wealthy businessmen with many diverse financial interests. When Dad dies, he charges his son with taking care of a boxer he has invested in--Mickey Davis. Vincent agrees, but he doesn't have the knack for management that his ...
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