Muhammad Ali: A View from the Corner

by Ferdie Pacheco

Book Overview

A candid memoir of life with Muhammad Ali by a man who had been his personal physician describes Ali's entire career, his membership in the Black Muslims, his controversial suspension and reemergence,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1559721006
• ISBN13: 9781559721004
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Carol Publishing Corporation
• Length: 217 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Muhammad Ali: A View from the corner

If you are looking for a good biography, than you should definetly choose this book over a different.Muhammad Ali: A view from the corner, is a great book, filled with every detail of every fight that was fought by Muhammad Ali. Ferdie Pacheco(Ali's fight doctor and author of this book) fills the book with much suspense during the fights, and goes through every punch that Ali takes and gives. The book, tells all about Ali's personal life too, as far as all four of his wives. It also tells many facts about his family, and his early childhood. Boxing style is one of the topics in this great book, and it also explains his change in religion.If I could give this book 6 stars then I definetly would. If you want to float like a butterfly and sting like a bee then this is the biography that you need.

Fight Doctor Delivers The Cure

This book by Ferdie Pacheco, Muhammad Ali: A View from the Corner is a great read. Pacheco is a physician who hooked up with the Ali Circus early on in the ride and who stayed on as Ali's personal physician and adviser for many years of Ali's colorful boxing career.There are countless books out there on the life of Muhammad Ali and I've read a lot of them, but in my opinion this simple book is one of the best of the lot. Pacheco is currently a color commentator for Showtime Championsip Boxing and he was formerly a boxing commentator for NBC Sports on their telecasts. Pacheco is smart, opinionated, and brutally honest when it comes to his subject - Muhammad Ali. Pacheco let's the reader see how his emotions were torn between staying on as a caregiver for the fighter he obviously loved, or no longer condoning the activities which he felt led to Ali's pitiful health condition today - and eventually resulted in him leaving the Ali camp. Pacheco has great insight to all the behind the scene hijinks of Ali's colorful life and career and it is a very entertaining book that is honestly told by a man who loves his subject but is not afraid to tell the dark and hurtful truth.Pacheco truly is the "Fight Doctor" and if you miss this book you miss a great piece of the entire Muhammad Ali puzzle.

This book is guaranteed to '' shock and amaze you.''

I recently read this book.I have to say it held my attenion the whole way through.Even through the end was very sad to me.Since it was about Ali's ''bloody trail'' of defeat.Mr. Pacheco captured all the details about Ali he saw.He even tells about Ali's circus[group of people that traveled with him.]It is a great way to explore Ali's life.It is an excellent book for all ages to read.As I said in the beginning I do not read much.But I have recently taken an intrest in boxing.It is by this I discovered Ali .I am only 15 and in my opinoin it is a great book for any one who is intrested in Ali or a greatperson