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Booklist Review

These volumes, both focusing on the current boxing scene in general and heavyweight champion Mike Tyson in particular, offer equal parts ring savvy and insider accounts of the fighters, trainers, and managers. Berger, in particular, does a special job of humanizing Tyson, who emerges, in fact, as a very complex man.

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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. 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)