Arguably the greatest boxer never to win a world title, Charles Burley was the most-feared fighter of his generation and one of the most-avoided fighters in the history of boxing. This revised edition has an expanded record for Burley that includes amateur bouts, a Tale-of-the-Tape, venues, and weights for Burley and his opponents.
Cleveland's Jimmy Bivins fought in one of boxing's toughest eras. He beat eight world champions in three different weight divisions, yet was never given a shot for any world title.Author Jerry Fitch tells the real story of his friend of 40 years, Jimmy Bivins, and details his fights with Joe Louis, Ezzard Charles, Archie Moore, Charley Burley and many others.
Born in the Year of the Tiger, Alice almost died at birth. After that start the road went steadily downwards. Author Frances Lynn, herself a survivor of the steaming seventies, pulls no punches in this chronicle of a wayward girl staggering into the drug-infested circles in San Francisco and London on her way to doom and destruction.
