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They just don't make em' like they used to...

American prizefighters, and BOOKS, that is.

What do you have when you peel back the classic 1960's photograph/jacket of this book? A classic 1970's ORANGE hard-cover with a binder about as tough as 'The Rock' himself. And at a hearty 369 pages and 28 chapters -- just like The Rock's right hand a.k.a. "Suzy Q", you whack somebody upside the melon with this bad-boy-of-a-book and they'll know it! ( * Or perhaps they won't. As in: "LIGHTS OUT!")

How good was this book? Good enough to get a claustrophobic paranoid-of-airflight-travel fellow through a 3-hour flight without even knowing it. ( * Of course the 2 Valium and a few Gin & Tonics probably didn't hurt too much either! LOL ) It was also good enough to put another very decent and respectable Marciano read ( Of which I will later review: "The 13th Candle" ) really - for all intents and purposes - to shame. ( I probably shouldn't say it quite like that. But "13th Candle" was kind of like a good TV Movie/soft cover, whereas this one was a bona-fide epic movie, so to speak...)

Seriously folks, if you know of a better Marciano book than Skeehan's 1977 effort "First Son", let me know.

Because I don't think it exists.


Bizzy on Boxing/Amatoboxing
(2007)

*Note - A special thanks to none other than Jim Amato for sending me this one last year. Hurry up and get better Jim...