{"product_id":"the-legend-of-mitch-blood-green-and-other-boxing-essays-9781949590807","title":"The Legend of Mitch Blood Green and Other Boxing Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Charles Farrell\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Hamilcar Publications\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Hamilcar Publications\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Boxing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"With his trademark insider acuity, unsentimental compassion, and faultless eye and ear, Charles Farrell gives us an indelible portrait of one of boxing's great characters and a definitive account of what happens when talent runs afoul of the way things work in the world.\"-Carlo Rotella, contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e and author of \u003ci\u003eCut Time: An Education at the Fights\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eMitch 'Blood' Green had\u003cbr\u003emore things going for him to make big money in boxing than nearly any fighter\u003cbr\u003ein history. A six-foot-six, 225-pound heavyweight with a chiseled physique and\u003cbr\u003ea traffic-stopping look, Green had ironclad street credibility--he was the gang leader\u003cbr\u003eof the Black Spades--and four New York Golden Gloves heavyweight titles. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut his penchant for\u003cbr\u003emayhem, drugs, and chaos, while keeping him in the news, torpedoed his pro boxing\u003cbr\u003ecareer. He lost a high-profile decision to Mike Tyson at Madison Square Garden, \u003cbr\u003egot into a tabloid-grabbing late-night street fight with Tyson at an\u003cbr\u003eafter-hours boutique in Harlem, and then disappeared. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUntil Charles Farrell\u003cbr\u003efound him. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Legend of Mitch \"Blood\" Green and Other Boxing Essays\u003c\/i\u003e, Farrell captures life in the boxing\u003cbr\u003ebusiness from its deepest interior, and offers additional portraits of characters\u003cbr\u003eas wide-ranging as Donald Trump, Floyd Patterson, Bert Cooper, Charley Burley, Peter\u003cbr\u003eMcNeeley, and Muhammad Ali. Trenchant, fearless, and often flat-out funny, there has never\u003cbr\u003ebeen a boxing book like this, and there will never be another.","brand":"Hamilcar Publications","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45299893207191,"sku":"9781949590807","price":2843.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781949590807.webp?v=1768582221","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-legend-of-mitch-blood-green-and-other-boxing-essays-9781949590807","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}