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An autobiography by the great Wilfred Benitez is out. The name of the book is "The 5th King"

Benitez appears incapable of communicating his story to a ghost writer, or even remembering it, so can't see how this could be a genuine autobiography.

It's written by Ben Doughty, whose previous work doesn't have the best reviews.

If Wilfred wrote it you could sum it up in 3 words "I no train".

Looks like it is a biography, not an autobiography. Might be good.

Ambling Alp II wrote: ↑04 Apr 2022, 20:52 Looks like it is a biography, not an autobiography. Might be good.

Google Ben Doughty. It won’t be good

Maybe he is horrible, I don't know.
Seems like a book on Benitez could be interesting. Won the title at 17. Beat Palomino, fought Leonard, Duran and Hearns. His health problems. Seems like there could be a lot of interesting stuff.

How could it have been an autobiography ?
Did you read Sugar Ray Leonard's 2011 autobiography where he writes of
visiting Wilfred Benitez in Puerto Rico ?

That is pretty much what I thought; it isn't an autobiography. Yes I did Leonard's book and his description of visiting Benitez. Pretty sad.

Ambling Alp II wrote: ↑05 Apr 2022, 15:34 Maybe he is horrible, I don't know.
Seems like a book on Benitez could be interesting. Won the title at 17. Beat Palomino, fought Leonard, Duran and Hearns. His health problems. Seems like there could be a lot of interesting stuff.

Of course. Ben Doughty won’t be the man to bring it to you.

The (self published) author of the book is a utter charlatan, cos-playing a ‘boxing man’ on Facebook.

Google Ben Doughty. Plenty of info / forum threads on the ‘Doyen’.

It is barely more than a pamphlet at 144 pages of well spaced out words and was written on a iPhone 5 with a cracked screen. It reads like he chewed up a thesaurus and spat it out on the pages, desperately trying to make himself sound intelligent but in fact achieving the total opposite.

He couldn’t even spell Alfredo Escalera correctly in the book, yet digs out people on his Facebook page for spelling Hagler wrong in their posts.

Avoid.

Save your money until the Benitez family-backed book comes out in due course.

Save yourself a few quid and simply type ‘Wilfred Benitez’ into Google. You’ll get more information and less drivel.

Benitez's story would be on par with Matthew Saad Muhammad's. Very gruesome reading

milpool wrote: ↑08 Apr 2022, 17:18 Save yourself a few quid and simply type ‘Wilfred Benitez’ into Google. You’ll get more information and less drivel.

Tbf this is likely how Ben ‘wrote’ the book.

milpool wrote: ↑08 Apr 2022, 17:18 Save yourself a few quid and simply type ‘Wilfred Benitez’ into Google. You’ll get more information and less drivel.

or start a Everything you ever wanted to know about "Wilfred Bentitez" thread on this forum.
remember the thread that Il Duce started here about 12 years ago
on Joe Bugner ?
it made Joe Bugner's own autiobiography published just a couple years later
look like it was written by a piker.

Caractacus wrote: ↑09 Apr 2022, 13:10 remember the thread that Il Duce started here about 12 years ago on Joe Bugner ?

You really need to get out more.

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For those that are thinking about buying this 'book', here is an actual excert -

'As the youngest world champion in the annals of pugilism his niche in posterity is unlikely to be usurped but the permanence of that legacy provides scant mitigation for the plain fact that his story has never been told.'

Now if that little paragraph of literary vomit doesn't put you off spending your money, here's another sample...

'As the ringside hacks began to pen their obituaries for the greatest lightweight of the colour TV era, only a man denuded of his faculties by the ingestion of hallucinogenic drugs would have predicted that ‘Manos De Piedra’ would enjoy a more illustrious trajectory thereafter. Having vanquished arguably the greatest constituent of boxing’s fabled ‘Mount Rushmore’, Benitez would never claim another notable scalp. Rather, he would become one.'

Ben 'Doyen' Doughty, the author William Shakespeare could've been.

milpool wrote: ↑11 Apr 2022, 11:13 For those that are thinking about buying this 'book', here is an actual excert -

'As the youngest world champion in the annals of pugilism his niche in posterity is unlikely to be usurped but the permanence of that legacy provides scant mitigation for the plain fact that his story has never been told.'

Now if that little paragraph of literary vomit doesn't put you off spending your money, here's another sample...

'As the ringside hacks began to pen their obituaries for the greatest lightweight of the colour TV era, only a man denuded of his faculties by the ingestion of hallucinogenic drugs would have predicted that ‘Manos De Piedra’ would enjoy a more illustrious trajectory thereafter. Having vanquished arguably the greatest constituent of boxing’s fabled ‘Mount Rushmore’, Benitez would never claim another notable scalp. Rather, he would become one.'

Ben 'Doyen' Doughty, the author William Shakespeare could've been.

FFS. Dim guy thinks using the thesaurus every other word will make him sound smarter. In actual fact it makes him sound stupider.

Embarrassing.

There’s a thread 100s of pages long on a forum dedicated to just him. Some of it is a little unfair but his writing is unnecessarily complicated for the subject matter. I’ve read one of hjs books. It’s actually worse than the meldrick Taylor book which is written by a man with brain damage.

milpool wrote: ↑11 Apr 2022, 11:13 For those that are thinking about buying this 'book', here is an actual excert -

'As the youngest world champion in the annals of pugilism his niche in posterity is unlikely to be usurped but the permanence of that legacy provides scant mitigation for the plain fact that his story has never been told.'

Now if that little paragraph of literary vomit doesn't put you off spending your money, here's another sample...

'As the ringside hacks began to pen their obituaries for the greatest lightweight of the colour TV era, only a man denuded of his faculties by the ingestion of hallucinogenic drugs would have predicted that ‘Manos De Piedra’ would enjoy a more illustrious trajectory thereafter. Having vanquished arguably the greatest constituent of boxing’s fabled ‘Mount Rushmore’, Benitez would never claim another notable scalp. Rather, he would become one.'

Ben 'Doyen' Doughty, the author William Shakespeare could've been.

jesus christ

i can only imagine how brilliant he felt putting that trash together

This is the author (NSFW language for the first second or so):

calmdown wrote: ↑12 Apr 2022, 07:38 This is the author (NSFW language for the first second or so):

Considering the Doyen is such a wordsmith, shouldn’t he have said something like, “be away with you Gary, you dishonourable tomfool”.

milpool wrote: ↑11 Apr 2022, 11:13 For those that are thinking about buying this 'book', here is an actual excert -

'As the youngest world champion in the annals of pugilism his niche in posterity is unlikely to be usurped but the permanence of that legacy provides scant mitigation for the plain fact that his story has never been told.'

Now if that little paragraph of literary vomit doesn't put you off spending your money, here's another sample...

'As the ringside hacks began to pen their obituaries for the greatest lightweight of the colour TV era, only a man denuded of his faculties by the ingestion of hallucinogenic drugs would have predicted that ‘Manos De Piedra’ would enjoy a more illustrious trajectory thereafter. Having vanquished arguably the greatest constituent of boxing’s fabled ‘Mount Rushmore’, Benitez would never claim another notable scalp. Rather, he would become one.'

Ben 'Doyen' Doughty, the author William Shakespeare could've been.

It reads like he's transcribing Ron McIntosh commentary.

he takes it even beyond big ron

milpool wrote: ↑11 Apr 2022, 11:13 For those that are thinking about buying this 'book', here is an actual excert -

'As the youngest world champion in the annals of pugilism his niche in posterity is unlikely to be usurped but the permanence of that legacy provides scant mitigation for the plain fact that his story has never been told.'

Now if that little paragraph of literary vomit doesn't put you off spending your money, here's another sample...

'As the ringside hacks began to pen their obituaries for the greatest lightweight of the colour TV era, only a man denuded of his faculties by the ingestion of hallucinogenic drugs would have predicted that ‘Manos De Piedra’ would enjoy a more illustrious trajectory thereafter. Having vanquished arguably the greatest constituent of boxing’s fabled ‘Mount Rushmore’, Benitez would never claim another notable scalp. Rather, he would become one.'

Ben 'Doyen' Doughty, the author William Shakespeare could've been.

Sounds like the writings of a 7th grader with 2 joints and a thesaurus.