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Twenty and Out is Mickey Duff's autobiography, published in hardback by Collins Willow, an imprint of HarperCollins. The front cover features a close-up photograph of Duff in profile, with a further photograph of him ringside in a dinner suit on the back cover. Printing number line reads 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2. The book is bound in a black dust jacket with white lettering, with Duff's profile photograph repeated on the spine alongside the Collins Willow imprint logo. The jacket shows some surface creasing and light rubbing, particularly along the edges and corners, along with a few faint scuff marks. The text block appears firmly bound, with cream-coloured pages and clear, legible print, as shown in the sample page spread covering the career of Chris Finnegan. No foxing or staining is visible on the pages photographed.
Seller Inventory # B0252
- Title
- Twenty and Out
- Author
- Mickey Duff
- Publisher
- Harpercollins Pub Ltd
- Publication year
- 2000
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0002189267
- ISBN 13
- 9780002189262
During a hugely successful career, the name of Mickey Duff has been synonymous with all the best boxers of the last 50 years – Sonny Liston, Sugar Ray Robinson, Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson to name but a few.
Mickey Duff has been at the top of the fight game since the early Fifties, when as a 15-year-old he cunningly side-stepped the British Boxing Board of Control to acquire himself a promoter’s licence – by law a licence could not be issued to anyone under 16.
Since then his name has been linked, either through promotion or management, with all the world’s best fighters from Liston to Tyson. In Britain he has managed or promoted the likes of Frank Bruno, John Conteh, Lloyd Honeygan, John H. Stracey, and Alan Minter – all of whom became world champions.
In the mid-1970s, along with his partner, Jarvis Astaire, Duff became the supreme force in British boxing – a stranglehold that was to last over 10 years. He talks candidly about that time, and about how he and Astaire formed their exclusive broadcasting alliance with the BBC.
He also tells the true story of Britain’s loveable hero, Frank Bruno, who Duff criticises for walking out on the men who made him; and provides a fascinating account of his relationship with the Kray Twins, both of whom frequented Duff’s East End gym in the late 1950s and early 60s.
Duff also sets the record straight about that infamous left hand from Henry Cooper which floored Cassius Clay in their first fight; reveals how Mike Tyson’s old manager, Jim Jacobs, was so dependent on Duff’s advice that Duff hand-picked the former champion’s first 18 opponents; and speaks of his love of gambling and the money he’s won and lost on fights over the years.
But above all, the book provides an unrivalled insight into the countless changes and developments within the fight game over the past five decades. A must for boxing aficionados everywhere.
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About the Author
Mickey Duff is a boxing manager and promoter who has been associated with all the great champions of the last 50 years.
Bob Mee is a freelance boxing journalist who has been at ringside for all the greatest encounters of the last 20 years. During that time he has written extensively for Boxing News and worked for ITV and Sky. This is his fourth book, following two encylopedic histories of the sport and Bare Fists, the tale of bare-knuckle combat.
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