- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: Mainstream Publishing; illustrated edition edition (10 Sep 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1840180595
- ISBN-13: 978-1840180596
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.8 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 641,655 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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GMQ Magazine
‘A remarkable book: Francis’ London life is truly fascinating – a world of markets, pubs, gyms, wharves and court appearances.'
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This is an autobiography of boxing trainer, George Francis. Borne in 1928 in the slums of Camden Town, he left school at the age of 11, and immediately started work. His earliest involvement with boxing was as a bare-knuckle street fighter but, after a spell in Wormwood Scrubs, he turned from pavement warfare to amateur boxing. He was a member of a local boxing club and it was here that he decided to switch from boxer to trainer, and soon he took on professional fighters - particularly black fighters. This was to be the start of an amazing career which saw of the best trainers in the world, involved with some of the greatest boxers in the world including Frank Bruno, John Conteh, Cornelius Boza-Edwards and John Mugabe. Francis's story is a remarkable slice of social history, an ebullient record of a colourful man and it offers an inside view of the mystique of the boxing trainer as motivator, conditioner and strategist. Francis survived setbacks and hardships that would have destroyed lesser men but he survived with good humour and exceptional moral strength. This book includes quotes from such well-known figures as Frank Bruno and Don King and the George Francis fitness method - unique to the man who is known as the best conditioner of boxers.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The book conveyes that George Francis was a man from a tough background who was prepaired to turn his hand to anythink that gave him his living. He came into boxing and his experience that he gained taught him how to handle fighters. How to talk stright to then and read them the riot act, if they wanted to be successful. Never a man to mince words, if you didn't tow the line you walked, if you payed heed he took you to the top. He had many raw experiences in his young life, such as being attacked by a homosexual, George turned his hands into closed boxes called fists and dealt a brutal justice to a raping homosexual. His ups and downs were many and he came through. His final shattering blow was the death of precious members of his family. That caused him to take his own life by hanging. A man tested to the limits. His passing was a devastating blow to his family friends and boxing. A grafic read of a stalwart man.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Recommended as an insight to the boxing world , his descriptions about the early days in London were enlightening. A very clever book .
Format:Hardcover
A great book spoiled by an author to lazy to check the boxing facts.
The book itself is great, truly interesting a great insight into the life of the late great George Francis
Didn't check the names of boxers who is Gerald McClaren? I have heard of Gerald McClellan. What weight was Barry McGuigan world title holder ? Featherweight actually.
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The book itself is great, truly interesting a great insight into the life of the late great George Francis
Didn't check the names of boxers who is Gerald McClaren? I have heard of Gerald McClellan. What weight was Barry McGuigan world title holder ? Featherweight actually.
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