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 01 Open

    Duration: 35s
  • TheGoodSon 02 Prologue

    Duration: 11min
  • TheGoodSon 03 Ch1

    Duration: 24min
  • TheGoodSon 04 Ch2a

    Duration: 19min
  • TheGoodSon 05 Ch2b

    Duration: 17min
  • TheGoodSon 06 Ch3a

    Duration: 18min
  • TheGoodSon 07 Ch3b

    Duration: 25min
  • TheGoodSon 08 Ch4

    Duration: 26min
  • TheGoodSon 09 Ch5

    Duration: 24min
  • TheGoodSon 10 Ch6

    Duration: 14min
  • TheGoodSon 11 Ch7a

    Duration: 16min
  • TheGoodSon 12 Ch7b

    Duration: 17min
  • TheGoodSon 13 Ch8a

    Duration: 18min
  • TheGoodSon 14 Ch8b

    Duration: 22min
  • TheGoodSon 15 Ch9

    Duration: 20min
  • TheGoodSon 16 Ch10a

    Duration: 12min
  • TheGoodSon 17 Ch10b

    Duration: 18min
  • TheGoodSon 18 Ch11a

    Duration: 21min
  • TheGoodSon 19 Ch11b

    Duration: 26min
  • TheGoodSon 20 Ch12

    Duration: 21min
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