num_pages: 456
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, 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.
language: English
title: In This Corner . . . !: Forty-two World Champions Tell Their Stories
titlecomplete: In This Corner . . . !: Forty-two World Champions Tell Their Stories
genres: Nonfiction, Martial Arts, Biography, Sports
ratings_count: 88
publisher: Da Capo Press