Four Kings Book

I'm about to give it another spin-through. :good

This isn't the first time I've heard Kimball accused of showing bias in it, but usually it's said that he skews pro-Hagler rather than anti-Duran.

I found it to be quite even-handed. :conf

 

Oh will probably still read it but dont like him being biased towards anybody in the book

 

I thought it was a good read. He used well known facts. The book is going to be most favorable to Ray since he beat everyone of them. Duran lost to all of them, so just on that I am not sure it is biased. Duran won one fight out of 10 superfights, and then he lost the rematch and rubbermatch. Showing too much praise for one win would seemed biased in his favor.

 

Great book. Cant remember it being too biased but been a while since I read it.

 

not enough books are written about boxers and by the boxers. It would be great to see how they felt before fights and if they were honest.

 

i got a chapter to go,great book,is there a video about of the howard cossell wig incident????

 

He isn't.

 

I enjoyed it. No particular bias towards anyone in my opinion.

 

I've read this, hands of stone, SRL's autobiography, and Hitman: The Thomas Hearns story.

Four Kings was very good with the facts and figures that Kimball had clearly researched, it gave a good idea of the aftermath of each fight. I also liked the amateur backstory at the beginning. But ultimately it didn't really go into much detail about the fighters themselves. I thought SRL-Duran 1 & 2 got plenty of coverage in the book, I wouldn't say there was bias against Duran

Hands of Stone was a great read, and really did Duran's story and epic life justice. So much information about Duran's youth and life outside of the ring. All it was missing was narrative with Roberto's own perspective on how he felt about his big fights, and the great fighters he faced.

Sugar Ray Leonard's autobiography was my favourite, it was a really honest and personal account from Ray's own perspective. I loved reading about his preparation, including his thoughts and feelings leading up to his biggest fights. And the chaos of his life outside the ring

Hitman:The Thomas Hearns story was a good read, but it is more a narrative of his career, with newspaper quotes thrown in here and there. Doesn't really say much about the man himself.

I'd love to read a Marvin Hagler autobiography, but a guy like Marvin doesn't seem the type who'd be interested in writing one :-(

All in all I'd recommend all of these books :good

 

4 Kings was a shoddy affair IMHO & they could'nt even get a genuine DURAN image for the cover. This book is an undisputed SRL cocksucking fest. Just look who's on top on the cover SRL whacking a Duran look alike. It oooozed smultz. A one way trip of the beautification of SRL for sainthood.

 

I'm currently reading Four Kings and I couldn't help but notice that the dude supposedly getting whacked by Leonard didn't even look like Duran. Poor indeed.

 

The Four Kings book cover that I got in the US has all 4 fighters standing with their hands raised after a win.

 

Same here. Red jacket; four pics of equal dimensions.