Major motion picture in developmentA Biography · 2004
From Beaver Falls to Broadway Joe: the man behind The Guarantee, a wounded star who made the modern NFL.
The Making of Mike Tyson
“This book, which is a masterpiece from an author who long ago entered the pantheon of the true greats, cements Mark Kriegel as the greatest chronicler of fighting and fighters.”
“What makes you a fighter?”
Mark Kriegel has spent more than four decades digging for answers to that question and its corollaries: What transforms mere athletes into icons? What separates the fighter from his facade? And victory from virtue? The answers — culled from his work as a bestselling biographer, newspaper columnist and Emmy Award-winning television analyst (ESPN, NFL Network, Showtime and Zuffa Boxing) — have rendered portraits of ballplayers and boxers as you’ve never seen them before.
In the early 1980s, as America’s steel towns turned to rust, Ray Mancini became just the kind of hero the nation needed — not merely a champion, but to millions of Americans, the real-life Rocky. Then it all came undone in a single afternoon, the day he fought Duk Koo Kim at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.
“If The Good Son is a sports book, it’s the best I’ve ever read.”
From Beaver Falls to Broadway Joe: the man behind The Guarantee, a wounded star who made the modern NFL.
A basketball prodigy created by his father, “Pistol” changed the game — but the price was immense.
Set in Greenwich Village in the 1970s and ’80s, it’s the tale of a mob soldier, his surviving son, and the way he betrayed them both. It’s also a love song to New York.
Interviews, features and fight coverage on the biggest names in combat sports.