The Mad and the Bad

Boxing Tales of Murder, Madness and Mayhem

Thomas Myler

• Publisher: Pitch Publishing Ltd
• eBook ISBN:
  9781785314223
• Year: 2018

Boxing has always had its wacky warriors and masters of menace. Eight-times married conman Kid McCoy took his own life. The fearless Stanley Ketchel was shot dead by a jealous farm worker. The enigmatic Battling Siki used to parade a lioness down the boulevards of Paris, while the unpredictable Chris Eubank enraged the establishment with his eccentric lifestyle. Mean and moody Sonny Liston died in mysterious circumstances. The brilliant Aaron Pryor fell victim to drugs. Roberto Duran once knocked over a horse in anger, while beer-guzzling Tony Galento threatened to "moider da bums." Here, Thomas Myler brilliantly brings to life all these and many more unforgettable fighters.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Dedication
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1 Eight weddings and two suicide notes
• 2 Nightmare on 41st Street
• 3 Lord of the manor
• 4 Mammy’s boy lived and died by the gun
• 5 The man they loved to hate
• 6 Flight of The Hawk
• 7 Title fight ends on sidewalk
• 8 Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse
• 9 Rocky road from a Brooklyn slum
• 10 Blue collar warrior who wouldn’t be denied
• 11 Champ with a passion for pigeons
• 12 Two Ton, the octopus, the kangaroo and the bear
• Selected bibliography
• Index
• Photos