The Ghost Of Johnny Tapia

Author : Paul Zanon
Publisher : Hamilcar Publications
ISBN 13 : 1949590178
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ghost of Johnny Tapia written by Paul Zanon and published by Hamilcar Publications. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If I wake up, I know I'm a success. The day I don't wake up, I know I'll be home. I have one foot on this earth and one foot has crossed over. I didn’t just die, I lived.”—Johnny Tapia ...the ghost of Johnny Tapia lives on. “Mi Vida Loca” (My Crazy Life) was Johnny Tapia’s nickname and his reason for being. Haunted by the brutal murder of his beloved mother when he was a child, fighting and drugs gave him the escape he craved—and he did both with gusto. In The Ghost Of Johnny Tapia, Paul Zanon, with the help of Tapia’s widow Teresa, tells the harrowing and unforgettable story of a boxing genius who couldn’t, in the end, defeat his demons. The Ghost of Johnny Tapia is the second in the Hamilcar Noir series. Hamilcar Noir is "Hard-Hitting True Crime" that blends boxing and true crime, featuring riveting stories captured in high-quality prose, with cover art inspired by classic pulp novels. From the Foreword: "Johnny had incredible heart, was such a sweet man, but was also tormented. He had two sides to him. The sweetest, nicest guy, but then the other side which could probably kill you. He was tortured with his addictions, but Johnny was always pure emotion in that ring."—Sammy ‘The Red Rocker’ Hagar, Musician

Author : Johnny Tapia
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1630761109
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mi Vida Loca written by Johnny Tapia and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-10-13 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is only one winner in boxing. Fighting against your opponent and fighting against your own inner demons become one in the same. Those who survive both in and out of the ring are beloved worldwide. Those who do not spiral downward into drugs, prison, and even murder. "[My] life's been pretty tragic," remarks Johnny. "But in the ring, it's been a blessing." Mi Vida Loca is not just a nickname for Johnny, but a legendary tale of a life lived over the edge and back.

Author : Jimmy Tobin
Publisher : Hamilcar Publications
ISBN 13 : 194959033X
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Killed in Brazil? written by Jimmy Tobin and published by Hamilcar Publications. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...Tobin astutely looks at the varying possibilities that would have led to Gatti’s death. Such an approach intelligently and respectfully piques interest in a real-life mystery that has left Gatti’s fans and family in need of both solace and satisfactory answers."—Kirkus Reviews "[Tobin is] an intelligent writer and a thoughtful person, tender even, who writes with authority...I know he’s invited me to a place I’d not have accessed without him."—Bart Barry, 15rounds.com Arturo "Thunder" Gatti hung up his gloves in 2007, closing the book on a boxing career that bordered on the mythical. At long last, he seemed ready to leave the business of blood behind for a long, happy life outside the ring. His retirement was celebrated—boxing’s modern gladiator had earned his freedom. Two years later, he was gone—found dead in a hotel in Brazil under mysterious circumstances. He was only thirty-seven years old. Did he commit suicide? Or was he killed by his new wife? In Killed in Brazil?, Jimmy Tobin recounts the dramatic events surrounding Gatti's tragic demise and shines a light on what may have happened on that fateful night. Killed in Brazil is the fourth in the Hamilcar Noir series. Hamilcar Noir is "Hard-Hitting True Crime" that blends boxing and true crime, featuring riveting stories captured in high-quality prose, with cover art inspired by classic pulp novels.

Author : Don Stradley
Publisher : Hamilcar Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781949590142
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Berserk written by Don Stradley and published by Hamilcar Publications. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with firsthand accounts from the men who trained Valero and the reporters who covered him, as well as insights from psychologists and forensic experts, Berserk is a hell-ride of a book.

Author : Luke Williams
Publisher : Hamilcar Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781949590357
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book President of Pandemonium written by Luke Williams and published by Hamilcar Publications. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ike "The President" Ibeabuchi had the boxing world at his feet in 1997 after vanquishing David Tua in a battle for the ages in Sacramento. The Nigerian heavyweight's subsequent descent into a vortex of mental illness and crime and punishment was as shocking as it was tragic. Was Ibeabuchi a vulnerable man exploited by a ruthless sport and a dysfunctional criminal justice system, or was he guilty-as-charged for his deeds and rightly punished? Somewhere amid a colorful cast of characters including Republican politicians, crooked promoters, and demons hiding in air-conditioning units, lies the uncomfortable truth. In President of Pandemonium, Luke G. Williams vividly recreates Ibeabuchi's life in and out of the ring. Combining exclusive interviews with those who guided his career and observed him closely, as well as firsthand testimony from "The President" himself, this is a story of brilliance destroyed by dark forces, both real and imagined.

Author : Donald McRae
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471135381
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dark Trade written by Donald McRae and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE 1996 WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE. In the early 1990s, Donald McRae set out to discover the truth about the intense and forbidding world of professional boxing. Travelling around the States and Britain, he was welcomed into the inner sanctums of some of the greatest fighters of the period - men such as Mike Tyson, Chris Eubank, Oscar de la Hoya, Frank Bruno, Evander Holyfield and Naseem Hamed among them. They opened up to him, revealing unforgettable personal stories from both inside and outside the ring, and explaining why it is that some are driven to compete in this most brutal of sports, risking their health and even their lives. The result is a classic account of boxing that remains as fresh and entertaining as when it was first published almost 20 years ago. McRae approaches his subjects with wit, compassion and insight, and the result was a book that was a deserved winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year prize.

Author : Rob Sneddon
Publisher : Down East Books
ISBN 13 : 1608933660
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Phantom Punch written by Rob Sneddon and published by Down East Books. This book was released on 2015-10-04 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two bouts between Cassius Clay and Sonny Liston are widely considered the most anticipated and controversial fights in heavyweight boxing. Cassius Clay won the first bout in Miami Beach in February 1964, when Liston refused to come out for the seventh round. The second fight took place in Lewiston, Maine, fifteen months later in May 1965. Halfway through the first round, Ali countered a left from Liston with a fast right, knocking Liston down. He did not get up. Ali’s right was so fast many spectators never even saw it. It was quickly dubbed the Phantom Punch and rumors began to swirl that Liston had thrown the fight. Many who believed Liston—a brutal fighter who picked up boxing in prison—had also thrown the first fight the year before in Miami were now vindicated. Journalist and sports historian Rob Sneddon takes a fresh look at the infamous Muhammad Ali–Sonny Liston fight of May 25, 1965, which ended in chaos at a high school hockey rink in Lewiston, Maine. Sneddon digs deep into the fight’s background and comes up with fascinating new takes on boxing promotion in the 1960s; on Ali’s rapid rise and Liston’s sudden fall; on how the bout ended up in Lewiston —and, of course, on Ali’s phantom punch. That single lightning-quick blow triggered a complex chain reaction of events that few people understood, either then or now. Even if you’ve seen films of the fight and think you know what happened, this book will change your perspective on boxing’s greatest controversy.

Author : Don Stradley
Publisher : Hamilcar Publications
ISBN 13 : 1949590100
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Berserk written by Don Stradley and published by Hamilcar Publications. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Stradley [has]...a clipped, hard-hitting narrative style that makes no excuses and offers no apologies. Boxing fans interested in this...tragic figure should be captivated. A gritty, absorbing account of a boxer who couldn’t defeat his own inner demons.”—Kirkus Reviews From the pages of Berserk: The Shocking Life and Death of Edwin Valero... "There’s no telling what went on during the next few hours, or where his paranoia took him, but in that room something terrible happened. At 5:30 a.m. Valero appeared in the lobby. As calmly as one might order something from room service, he told the staff that he had just killed his wife." Within the dark pages of Berserk: The Shocking Life and Death of Edwin Valero, author Don Stradley uncovers the gritty details of the undefeated (27-0, 27 KO), troubled, boxer Edwin Valero. Edwin Valero’s life was like a rocket shot into a wall. With a perfect knockout record in twenty-seven fights, the demonic Venezuelan boxer, known as “El Inca” and “El Dinamita,” seemed destined for a clash with all-time great Manny Pacquiao. But the Fates had other ideas. Fueled by cocaine and booze and paranoia, Valero blazed into a mania that derailed his career in the ring and resulted in the brutal death of his young wife Jennifer–and soon afterward, his own. In chilling detail, Don Stradley captures one of the darkest and most sensational boxing stories in recent memory, which, until now, has never been fully told. Filled with firsthand accounts from the men who trained Valero and the reporters who covered him, as well as insights from psychologists and forensic experts, Berserk is a hell-ride of a book. Berserk is the first in the Hamilcar Noir series, from Hamilcar Publications. Hamilcar Noir is "Hard-Hitting True Crime" that blends boxing and true crime, featuring riveting stories captured in high-quality prose, with cover art inspired by classic pulp novels.

Author : Don Stradley
Publisher : Hamilcar Noir
ISBN 13 : 9781949590258
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slaughter in the Streets written by Don Stradley and published by Hamilcar Noir. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Slaughter in the Streets, Don Stradley masterfully unfolds the story of how Boston became "boxing's murder capital." From the early days of Boston's Mafia, to the era of Whitey Bulger, Stradley tells the fascinating stories of men who were drawn to the dual shady worlds of boxing and the mob.

Author : Jimmy Tobin
Publisher : Hamilcar Publications
ISBN 13 : 1949590119
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost in Boxing written by Jimmy Tobin and published by Hamilcar Publications. This book was released on 2020-05-25 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lost in Boxing is a free companion ebook to Donald McRae's classic, award-winning Dark Trade: Lost in Boxing. The essays contained in this ebook were previously published on the Hannibal Boxing website, along with a new introduction by Carlos Acevedo, the author of Sporting Blood: Tales From The Dark Side Of Boxing. The essays in this works are: Introduction by Carlos Acevedo Them Bones: The Night James Toney Won His First World Title, Carlos Acevedo The Edge of Derision: On Prince Naseem Hamed, Oliver Goldstein The Hotstepper: Oscar De La Hoya, Nearing Stardom, Carlos Acevedo Idyllic Masquerading: The Night Chris Eubank Beat Michael Watson, Oliver Goldstein The Savage Within: Mike Tyson on the Rise, Carlos Acevedo Vendetta: Oscar De La Hoya and Fernando Vargas Settle Their Blood Feud, Carlos Acevedo The Future Now: Roy Jones Breaks Through, Oliver Goldstein Earn It: Evander Holyfield and Michael Dokes Go to War, Oliver Goldstein Episodes in the American Berserk: Mike Tyson vs. Razor Ruddock I, Oliver Goldstein This Is the Future: James Toney Batters Vassiliy Jirov for His Third World Title, Jimmy Tobin