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Boxer and writer José Torres was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico in 1936. He learned to box in the Army and won the light-middleweight silver medal at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. He fought professionally from 1958 to 1969, had a record of 41-3-1, and captured the light-heavyweight crown in March 1965. mehr anzeigen In 1997, he was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame He became a boxing official as well as the chairman of the New York State Athletic Commission from 1984 to 1988. He wrote two books, Sting Like a Bee: The Muhammad Ali Story (1971) and Fire and Fear: The Inside Story of Mike Tyson (1989), and for The New York Post and El Diario La Prensa. He died of a heart attack on January 19, 2009 at the age of 72. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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jose Torres knows the world of boxing. A world light-heavy-weight champion 1967 - 70, he also trained with Cus D'Amato, the trainer of Mike Tyson. Jose got out of the fight game (41wins 29 by knockout) with enough brain left to set up a writing career for magazines, and another biography, that of Mohammed Ali, as well as this one. Though not the KO artist that Tyson was, Jose could see how that could be done. This is a book rich in shared background and a very rewarding read.
This is quite simply the best book about boxing I have ever read, and one of the few I kept when I gave the others away. It concerns the life and times of Cassius Clay/Muhammad Ali from boyhood to the Fight of the Century with Joe Frazier in 1971.
Inbetween, Torres tells the tale of Ali's incredible life during the 1960s: an Olympic gold medal in Rome, winning the world heavyweight title, his conversion to Islam, and being stripped of the title because of his stance on Vietnam.
All well-documented stuff, of course; but the insight that Torres (a former world light-heavyweight champion himself) is able to give to the psychology of boxers - whether they are afraid; the sub-conscious excuses they make for a poor performance, even during a fight; the 'second wind' and the difference between tiredness and discouragement - puts this book head and shoulders above the rest. Torres's analyses of Ali's comeback fights against Jerry Quarry and Oscar Bonavena make the bouts seem as if they are unfolding before your eyes, and his description of the Ali-Frazier contest, the climax of the book, is as fascinating and thrilling as it was when I first read it, nearly forty years ago.
A must.… (mehr)
Inbetween, Torres tells the tale of Ali's incredible life during the 1960s: an Olympic gold medal in Rome, winning the world heavyweight title, his conversion to Islam, and being stripped of the title because of his stance on Vietnam.
All well-documented stuff, of course; but the insight that Torres (a former world light-heavyweight champion himself) is able to give to the psychology of boxers - whether they are afraid; the sub-conscious excuses they make for a poor performance, even during a fight; the 'second wind' and the difference between tiredness and discouragement - puts this book head and shoulders above the rest. Torres's analyses of Ali's comeback fights against Jerry Quarry and Oscar Bonavena make the bouts seem as if they are unfolding before your eyes, and his description of the Ali-Frazier contest, the climax of the book, is as fascinating and thrilling as it was when I first read it, nearly forty years ago.
A must.… (mehr)
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Torres, writing in 1971 says that he looked at Ali as a possible opponent, and that is responsible for a good deal of the book's depth. I don't think you can look at the fight game adequately without having read this book.