The 12 Greatest Rounds of Boxing: The Untold Stories [SIGNED]

Pacheco, Ferdie; Moskovitz, Jim

ISBN 10: 189212937X / ISBN 13: 9781892129376

Published by Total Sports, Kingston, NY, 2000

About this Item

First Edition, First Printing. Hard cover 8vo in black cloth w/gold spine titles. Fine and unmarked book in Near Fine lightly soiled unclipped DJ. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR Ferdie Pacheco on 1/2 title page. 200pp inc. Index; well-illustrated throughout. Uncommon signed. 200 p.

Seller Inventory # 046546

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The 12 Greatest Rounds of Boxing: The Untold Stories [SIGNED]
• Publisher: Total Sports, Kingston, NY
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 189212937X
• ISBN 13: 9781892129376
• Binding: Cloth
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Inscribed and SIGNED By Author
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed Books
  • Non-Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

The longtime boxing physician and broadcaster shares his insider insights and observations of a life in boxing, from the 1920s to the present, as he looks at twelve of the most unforgettable rounds in the history of boxing.

Review

In The 12 Greatest Rounds of Boxing: The Untold Stories, Ferdie Pacheco, the famed "Fight Doctor" who manned Muhammad Ali's corner for 15 years, offers the following criteria for picking an even dozen of boxing's greatest rounds: to be included, each must have exhibited some impact beyond boxing or had a significant effect on the sport's rules or a fighter's career, or life or death must have hung in the balance. Given the parameters, the fights, fighters, and rounds he opts for offer no surprises. They include round 1 of Dempsey-Willard, the 7th-round long count of Dempsey-Tunney, Joe Louis's opening-round KO of Max Schmeling, and four of Ali's greatest performances, including his 8th-round emergence against George Foreman and the titanic 14th round of the "Thrilla in Manila" with Joe Frazier.

If Pacheco leans toward the obvious, The 12 Greatest Rounds of Boxing is no rope-a-dope. There's action and insight from the start, with lots of background on fighters, pre-fight hoopla, the fights themselves, and what Pacheco calls "the untold stories," which are really his genial analyses and reflections on events--until he gets to the Ali fights he himself worked. Here, Pacheco brings us close enough to feel the pummeling, smell the sweat, and, through the filter of his recollections, hear the voices of the participants. Witness this exchange between Ali and Frazier at the end of the 7th round of their epic third encounter: "Ali, with his back to the corner," writes Pacheco, "grabbed Joe by the back of the head and pulled him into a clinch. He yelled in Frazier's ear, 'They told me you was washed up, champ.' Joe gritted his teeth, hammered his hardest punch to Ali's kidney and growled, 'They lied to you, champ. They lied!'" It's the kind of exchange--and there are many more like it--that helps The 12 Greatest Rounds easily go the distance. --Jeff Silverman