{"product_id":"the-legend-of-mitch-blood-green-and-other-boxing-essays","title":"The Legend of Mitch \"Blood\" Green and Other Boxing Essays","description":"Condition: BRAND NEW\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781949590814\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Trade paperback (US)\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2025\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Hamilcar Publications\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Charles Farrell's many personal encounters, questions, insights, and experiences as an observer of the sport... add a multifaceted richness to [this] essay collection.... Readers will find its vibrant psychological, social, political, and personal revelations are just the ticket for a read that is solid in its facts, unexpected in its focus and connections, and thoroughly delightful in its novel approach to boxing.\"-\u003ci\u003eMidwest Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMitch \"Blood\" Green hadmore things going for him to make big money in boxing than nearly any fighterin history. A six-foot-six, 225-pound heavyweight with a chiseled physique anda traffic-stopping look, Green had ironclad street credibility-he was the gang leaderof the Black Spades-and four New York Golden Gloves heavyweight titles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut his penchant formayhem, drugs, and chaos, while keeping him in the news, torpedoed his pro boxingcareer. He lost a high-profile decision to Mike Tyson at Madison Square Garden,got into a tabloid-grabbing late-night street fight with Tyson at anafter-hours boutique in Harlem, and then disappeared.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUntil Charles Farrellfound him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Legend of Mitch \"Blood\" Green and Other Boxing Essays\u003c\/i\u003e, Farrell captures life in the boxingbusiness from its deepest interior, and offers additional portraits of charactersas wide-ranging as Donald Trump, Floyd Patterson, Bert Cooper, Charley Burley, PeterMcNeeley, and Muhammad Ali. Trenchant, fearless, and often flat-out funny, there has neverbeen a boxing book like this, and there will never be another.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ALLIANCE DIST - SF","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":41498969309317,"sku":"PR402407","price":61.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0213\/3637\/files\/9781949590807.original_TNXPXH1H5I7P.jpg?v=1769252555","url":"https:\/\/smartfoxbooks.co.nz\/products\/the-legend-of-mitch-blood-green-and-other-boxing-essays","provider":"Smartfox Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}