The Good Son: The Life of Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini

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From the bestselling writer of Pistol and Namath, a vivid, revealing, and fast-paced biography of the nice boxer Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini.

Frank Sinatra fawned over him. Warren Zevon wrote a tribute song. Sylvester Stallone produced his life story as a movie of the week. Within the 1980s, Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini wasn’t merely the lightweight champ. An adoring public thought to be him a national hero, the true Rocky.

But it all came apart on November 13, 1982, in a brutal battle at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Mancini’s difficult to understand Korean challenger, Duk Koo Kim, went down Within the fourteenth round and never regained consciousness. Three months later, Kim’s despondent mother took her own life. The deaths would haunt Ray and ruin his in moderation crafted image, all at once transforming boxing’s All-American Boy into a pariah. With the vivid style and deep reporting that experience earned him renown as a biographer, Mark Kriegel has written a fast-paced epic. The Just right Son is an intimate history, a saga of fathers and fighters, loss and redemption.

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