A must read for all boxing fans.' -- SADDOBOXING.COM 'A fine tribute to a great, great fighter.' -- DUBLIN EVENING HERALD 'The Hit Man unleashed.' -- THE RING 'An engrossing book on a thrilling fighter.' -- BOXING MONTHLY
From Mexican Joe Rivers to Oscar De La Hoya, the true stories of their sensational ring wars are told while keeping alive the spirit and legacy of Mexican American boxing from the greater Los Angeles area.
With numerous period photographs and a foreword from Walcott's grandson, this work provides an intimate look at one of the grittiest, most determined boxers of the 20th century.
The likes of poet Vachel Lindsay and novelist Theodore Dreiser lionized him—Dreiser called him 'a sort of prize fighting J. P. Morgan'—and Ernest Thompson Seton, founder of the Boy Scouts, noted approvingly that he never met a lad who ...