The Legend of Mitch Blood Green and Other Boxing Essays -- Charles Farrell

<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."-<i>Midwest Book Review</i></b></p><br></p>Mitch "Blood" Green had<br>more things going for him to make big money in boxing than nearly any fighter<br>in history. A six-foot-six, 225-pound heavyweight with a chiseled physique and<br>a traffic-stopping look, Green had ironclad street credibility--he was the gang leader<br>of the Black Spades--and four New York Golden Gloves heavyweight titles.</p> <p/>But his penchant for<br>mayhem, drugs, and chaos, while keeping him in the news, torpedoed his pro boxing<br>career. He lost a high-profile decision to Mike Tyson at Madison Square Garden, <br>got into a tabloid-grabbing late-night street fight with Tyson at an<br>after-hours boutique in Harlem, and then disappeared.</p> <p/>Until Charles Farrell<br>found him.</p> <p/>In <i>The Legend of Mitch "Blood" Green and Other Boxing Essays</i>, Farrell captures life in the boxing<br>business from its deepest interior, and offers additional portraits of characters<br>as wide-ranging as Donald Trump, Floyd Patterson, Bert Cooper, Charley Burley, Peter<br>McNeeley, and Muhamm