Jose Torres (1)
Autor de Sting Like a Bee : The Muhammad Ali Story
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Sobre El Autor
Boxer and writer José Torres was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico in 1936. He learned to box in the Army and won the light-middleweight silver medal at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. He fought professionally from 1958 to 1969, had a record of 41-3-1, and captured the light-heavyweight crown in March 1965. mostrar más In 1997, he was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame He became a boxing official as well as the chairman of the New York State Athletic Commission from 1984 to 1988. He wrote two books, Sting Like a Bee: The Muhammad Ali Story (1971) and Fire and Fear: The Inside Story of Mike Tyson (1989), and for The New York Post and El Diario La Prensa. He died of a heart attack on January 19, 2009 at the age of 72. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Torres, writing in 1971 says that he looked at Ali as a possible opponent, and that is responsible for a good deal of the book's depth. I don't think you can look at the fight game adequately without having read this book.