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.
In This Corner . . . ! : Forty-two World Champions Tell Their Stories
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Table of Contents
- Introduction by Muhammad Ali 1912-1919 Willie Ritchie, November 28, 1912 Gunboat Smith, January 1, 1914 Pete Herman, January 9, 1917 Jack Dempsey, July 4, 1919 The Twenties Johnny Wilson, May 6, 1920 Mickey Walker, November 1, 1922 Charley Phil Rosenberg, March 20, 1925 Fidel LaBarba, August 22, 1925 Mushy Callahan, September 21, 1926 Tommy Loughran, October 7, 1927 Jackie Fields, March 25, 1929 Battling Battalino, September 23, 1929 The Thirties Jack Sharkey, June 21, 1932 Jimmy McLarnin, May 29, 1933 James J. Braddock, June 13, 1935 Lou Ambers, September 3, 1936 Joe Louis, June 22, 1937 Henry Armstrong, October 29, 1937 Billy Conn, July 13, 1939 The Forties Lew Jenkins, May 10, 1940 Fritzie Zivic, October 4, 1940 Willie Pep, November 20, 1942 Beau Jack, December 18, 1942 Ike Williams, April 18, 1945 Sugar Ray Robinson, December 20, 1946 Rocky Graziano, July 16, 1947 Sandy Saddler, October 29, 1948 Jake LaMotta, June 16, 1949 The Fifties Archie Moore, December 17, 1952 Bobo Olson, October 21, 1953 Carmen Basilio, June 10, 1955 Floyd Patterson, November 30, 1956 Gene Fullmer, January 2, 1957 Don Jordan, December 5, 1958 Carlos Ortiz, June 12, 1959 The Sixties Paul Pender, January 22, 1960 Emile Griffith, April 1, 1961 Willie Pastrano, June 1, 1963 Joey Giardello, December 7, 1963 Jose Torres, March 30, 1965 The Seventies Roberto Duran, June 26, 1972 Alexis Arguello, November 23, 1974
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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.