Charlie Magri book - could anyone review it?

harrygreb · Post by **harrygreb** » 23 Feb 2008, 10:54

dont go under the green bridge with the trees on top of it though.
the bridge you wanna go under is a clear two minutes walk up grove road.
no worries

john2345 · Post by **john2345** » 25 Feb 2008, 07:02

Read the book over the weekend. Great read...highly recommended. Popped a review on Amazon.

Different topic, but may as well ask the question here as he's mentioned several times in the book....Anyone know what Mark Kaylor is doing these days?

J

MightyWarrior · Post by **MightyWarrior** » 25 Feb 2008, 07:06

Kaylor is training boxers at a gym in California last I heard

john2345 · Post by **john2345** » 25 Feb 2008, 07:08

MightyWarrior wrote:Kaylor is training boxers at a gym in California last I heard

Thanks.... J

dandantheweatherman · Post by **dandantheweatherman** » 25 Feb 2008, 09:49

Funnily enough just finished reading it today. Charlie Magri was fighting just before I got interested in boxing so whilst I knew of him it was nice to read about his career. Thought it was quite interesting and an easy read.

punchers chance · Post by **punchers chance** » 19 Mar 2008, 08:24

Good read – an excellent story to be told – winning the British title 42 days after turning pro. Some achievement that. Is that a record?
Also some entertaining accounts of the fights themselves.

As Charlie’s story is pretty new to me, (I knew he was a world champ but that’s all), one thing that slightly detracted from my enjoyment was that sometimes the chapter titles gave away what the outcome of the fights was going to be.

I thought the latter pages were excellent with the account of life after boxing. It really added a personal touch to the story for me.

By the way James, did Charlie really say ‘in those days you couldn’t check the records of fighters like you can these days on boxrec.com’?

jamesmcdonnell · Post by **jamesmcdonnell** » 19 Mar 2008, 09:10

Of course there is always a fair bit of licence. I did however make Charlie aware of boxrec.com, we printed out Laciar's record for him and Charlie was amazed by just how many fights the guy had.

The last chapters of the book were the ones I was really able to get my teeth into and enjoyed most.