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Charles Farrell has spent his professional life moving between music and boxing, with occasional detours. He has managed five world champions, and has played and recorded with many of the musicians he most admires—Evan Parker and Ornette Coleman among them. His first book, (Low)life: A Memoir of Jazz, FIght-Fixing, and the Mob, was published by Hamilcar in 2021. Farrell lives outside of Boston.

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"Charles Farrell's many personal encounters, questions, insights, andexperiences 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 issolid in its facts, unexpected in its focus and connections, and thoroughlydelightful in its novel approach to boxing."-Midwest Book ReviewMitch "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. But 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. Until Charles Farrellfound him. In The Legend of Mitch "Blood" Green and Other Boxing Essays, 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.

Inhalt

The Legend of Mitch “Blood” Green

The Time I Didn’t Have Time For Donald Trump

Floyd Mayweather Jr. Versus Conor McGregor: What Kind of Fuckery Is This? 

Black Code

Dreamland

Way Out in Space

This Was Ali

Rang Tang Ding Dong Rankie Sankie