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My View from the Corner Angelo Dundee

My View from the Corner By Angelo Dundee

My View from the Corner by Angelo Dundee


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Angelo Dundee has lived half-a-century of boxing history. During that period he trained, mentored, and worked the corner of 15 world champions - including Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Leonard, and George Foreman. This work delivers a , behind-the-scenes look at his involvement in some of boxing's most controversial and historic moments.

My View from the Corner Summary

My View from the Corner by Angelo Dundee

Dundee is one of the greatest innovators in the annals of the sweet science...guiding world champions as diverse in gladiatorial gifts and mind-sets as Carmen Basilio, Willie Pastrano, Luis Rodriguez, Sugar Ray Leonard, George Foreman (in his comeback) and, of course, Muhammad Ali...Bert Randolph Sugar has superbly captured Dundee's unique diction...by the end the reader will know precisely what it is like to listen to the Bill Walsh of boxing hold court on the exotic art of the cornerman.--The New York Times

Angelo Dundee has lived a half-century of boxing history. During that period he trained a record-breaking fifteen world champions and countless top contenders--wiping away their sweat and blood and instilling whatever it took to win.

My View from the Corner is his story in his own words. It is also the story of the legendary ring warriors he has forged into champions, including all-time greats Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Leonard, and George Foreman, as well as champs such as Willie Pastrano and Carmen Basilio.

But you won't just read about prize fighters. Dundee can't tell his tale without including an amazing cast of characters who could only exist in the larger-than-life world of professional boxing. You'll find engrossing stories involving everyone from sportscaster Howard Cosell to artist LeRoy Nieman to mobster Frank Costello. Muhammad Ali also contributes a foreword of his own--delivering his personal insights on Dundee--the man, the friend, and the boxing trainer.

The veteran trainer gives you a ringside seat and the inside scoop into what really happened during such classic sports moments as:

The Ali-Liston rematch, which even today many believe was fixed
The Rumble in the Jungle (Ali vs. Foreman) where Dundee was accused of loosening the ring ropes in order to let Ali perform his now famous rope-a-dope
The second Leonard-Duran fight known for Duran uttering the infamous no mas--Dundee reveals Duran never actually spoke those words
Foreman vs. Moorer where George Foreman made history by becoming the oldest man to win the Heavyweight Championship
Leonard vs. Hagler, which ended with one of the most controversial decisions in boxing history

For the first time, Dundee also candidly discusses his feelings about Ali's conversion to Islam, the mob and its influence on boxing, training Russell Crowe for Cinderella Man (which Dundee also appeared in), the psychology of training fighters, and much more.

My View from the Corner is filled with the depth and insight that can only come from a man who truly loves what he does . . . and is unquestionably the best in the world at it.

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Table of Contents

Foreword by Muhammad Ali

1. Fifty-Plus Years in the Fight Game: How Did I Get Here?

2. My Apprenticeship with Brother Chris

3. Miami Beach and My First Champion

4. Cassius Clay

5. Young Cassius Punches His Ticket to the Top

6. Baiting and Beating the Bear

7. Boxing Becomes Cassius Clay Who Becomes Muhammad Ali

8. A Champion in Training, A Champion in Exile

9. The Fight, March 8, 1971

10. The Road Back

11. The Rumble in the Jungle, October 30, 1974

12. The Thrilla in Manilla, October 1, 1975?

13. Boxing's Greatest Act Leaves the Stage

14. Filling Ali's Size-50 Shoes

15. Duran: No Mas? No Way, No Say

16. Hearns, Retirement--And Then A Marvelous Comeback

17. The 40-Year-Old Champ

18. Memories Are Made of This

Additional information

GOR002156293
9780071477390
007147739X
My View from the Corner by Angelo Dundee
Used - Very Good
Hardback
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
20071116
336
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