The Legend of Mitch Blood Green and Other Boxing Essays

<p class=MsoNormal><span><b>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.</b></span><b>-<i>Midwest Book Review</i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span>Mitch "Blood" Green had
more things going for him to make big money in boxing than nearly any fighter
in history. A six-foot-six 225-pound heavyweight with a chiseled physique and
a traffic-stopping look Green had ironclad street credibility—he was the gang leader
of the Black Spades—and four New York Golden Gloves heavyweight titles.</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span>But his penchant for
mayhem drugs and chaos while keeping him in the news torpedoed his pro boxing
career. 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 an
after-hours boutique in Harlem and then disappeared.</span><span></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span>Until Charles Farrell
found him.</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span>In <i>The Legend of Mitch "Blood" Green and Other Boxing Essays</i> Farrell captures life in the boxing
business from its deepest interior and offers additional portraits of characters
as wide-ranging as Donald Trump Floyd Patterson Bert Cooper Charley Burley Peter
McNeeley and Muhammad Ali. Trenchant fearless and often flat-out funny there has never
been a boxing book like this and there will never be another.</span><span></span></p>