The Good Son: The Life Of Ray "boom Boom" Mancini

  • Author: Mark Kriegel
  • Narrator: Holt McCallany
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Duration: 9:19:50
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Synopsis

From the bestselling author of Pistol and Namath, a vivid, revealing, and fast-paced biography of the great 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. In the 1980s, Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini wasn’t merely the lightweight champ. An adoring public considered him a national hero, the real Rocky.

But it all came apart on November 13, 1982, in a brutal battle at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Mancini’s obscure Korean challenger, Duk Koo Kim, went down in 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 carefully crafted image, suddenly transforming boxing’s All-American Boy into a pariah. With the vivid style and deep reporting that have earned him renown as a biographer, Mark Kriegel has written a fast-paced epic. The Good Son is an intimate history, a saga of fathers and fighters, loss and redemption.

Chapters

  • TheGoodSon 21 Ch13a

    Duration: 23min
  • TheGoodSon 22 Ch13b

    Duration: 21min
  • TheGoodSon 23 Ch14a

    Duration: 19min
  • TheGoodSon 24 Ch14b

    Duration: 22min
  • TheGoodSon 25 Ch15a

    Duration: 20min
  • TheGoodSon 26 Ch15a

    Duration: 24min
  • TheGoodSon 27 Ch16a

    Duration: 17min
  • TheGoodSon 28 Ch16b

    Duration: 21min
  • TheGoodSon 29 Epilogue

    Duration: 10min
  • TheGoodSon 30 Close

    Duration: 01min
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