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Summary: Heavyweight Champ of Boxing Interviews
Review: "Bad" Brad gets up close and personal with some real great ones. It will be obvious for the true boxing fan, "Bad" Brad is the "greatest"!
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Summary: "Bad" Brad & boxing
Review: A MUST read for all boxing enthusiasts!! CONGRATS!!
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Summary: TRUE TO HIS WORD
Review: Author "Bad" Brad Berkwitt has put together one of the most amazing books I have ever read. His first release Boxing Interviews of a Lifetime is just that. A book filled of nothing, but positive boxing interviews and for once, the people interviewed are not taken out of context and have been allowed to be heard in their own words. What a delight to see fighter's I grew up on such as Yaqui Lopez, Earnie Shavers,and Murray Sutherland. Also, the oldtimers such as Pete Rademacher and Gene Fullmer who through Brad's interviews, I now have a great insight about. But don't stop there, he also has done something I have never seen before and that is interview celebs such as Joey Bishop (The Rat Pack), Buddy Hackett, Vanessa Del Rio and singer Al Martino who also played Johnny Fontane in The Godfather. What a delight to see these folks talking about their true love for the sport of boxing. These are only a few, but from cover to cover, I have read this book several times, each time finding out a new tidbit of information. For anyone who calls themselves a true boxing fan, this book is a MUST! One other side note about this author, he is so true to his word about taking care of his readers, that he has put his email address in the book to contact him if you would like the book personally signed. I did in fact do that, and of course sent him return postage. He inscribed it to me with a personal note and it now is part of my boxing book collection that I cherish. I have no doubt in the years to come, this first time author will be remembered for this book amongst the many other things I am sure he will do in the boxing world.
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Summary: A Book With Passion and Insight!
Review: Brad Berkwitt brings a humanistic, sensitive feeling to the world of boxing with this wonderful book! As a noted boxing writer and researcher, with over 25 years in the business, I can tell you that this is the FIRST and BEST book that I have read where the author "speaks from the heart!" While most books just provide information about boxing, Brad provides an in-depth assessment to each of the book's many fine interviews. Discussions with many of the best fighters, trainers, and managers provide stimulating questions and answers. Brad Berkwitt is more than just a fine writer, he is a great friend. You will LOVE this book!
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Summary: BOXING INTERVIEWS LIKE NO OTHERS...
Review: I just got done reading "Bad" Brad Berkwitt's new boxing book Boxing Interviews of a Lifetime for the fourth time. Each time I pick up this book, I learn something knew about so many fighters I have loved over the years. Fighters such as Sean O' Grady, Chuck Wepner, Aaron Pryor, Gerry Cooney, Gene Fullmer, Ron Lyle, Roy Jones, JR, Ken Norton, Yaqui Lopez and Vinny Paz which are just some. The other amazing thing this author does is interview celebs such as Jerry Vale, Al Martino, Vanessa Del Rio, Joey Bishop and the late Buddy Hackett. The stories they tell about the sport of boxing which they love are priceless. This Berkwitt fellow has set a standard for all others to follow on how to conduct an interview by getting all the details out of his interviewee.. I not only highly reccomend this book, but I will guarantee you will read it many times over because it's just that informative and entertaining.. Funny thing, the minute I saw his dedication to his late Father in the front and the very moving words he said, I knew this book was going to be Great...
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Summary: BOXING INTERVIEWS LIKE NO OTHERS...
Review: I just got done reading "Bad" Brad Berkwitt's new boxing book Boxing Interviews of a Lifetime for the fourth time. Each time I pick up this book, I learn something knew about so many fighters I have loved over the years. Fighters such as Sean O' Grady, Chuck Wepner, Aaron Pryor, Gerry Cooney, Gene Fullmer, Ron Lyle, Roy Jones, JR, Ken Norton, Yaqui Lopez and Vinny Paz which are just some. The other amazing thing this author does is interview celebs such as Jerry Vale, Al Martino, Vanessa Del Rio, Joey Bishop and the late Buddy Hackett. The stories they tell about the sport of boxing which they love are priceless. This Berkwitt fellow has set a standard for all others to follow on how to conduct an interview by getting all the details out of his interviewee.. I not only highly reccomend this book, but I will guarantee you will read it many times over because it's just that informative and entertaining.. Funny thing, the minute I saw his dedication to his late Father in the front and the very moving words he said, I knew this book was going to be Great...
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Summary: BOXING INTERVIEWS OF A LIFETIME_A BIG HIT!
Review: If he never writes another word, covers another boxing event, or does another great interview, "Bad" Brad (as my good friend Henry "Discombobulating" Jones likes to call him) has made his mark on the boxing landscape. The great news is that he's not done yet! He loves and cares about this stuff too much! He not only has covered the current main personalities in the fight game, but he has additionally "reached back" and caught readers up on some of the great figures of boxing's past. He covers all of the bases and lets the fighters say it "their way". The fans, the fighters and the "boxing insiders" like myself love it this way! Bad Brad -keep up the great work! I know you will, because like I said . . . " he's not done yet! " 10 Count - I'm Out!
Baltimore-Washington's own Fight Doctor (AKA Jerome Spears)
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Summary: Heavyweight Champ of Boxing Interviews!!
Review: It will be obvious to boxing fans that "Bad" Brad knows and cares about boxing!! From a former Heavyweight Champ!!
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Summary: Not "Bad" Brad!
Review: When interviewing, Berkwitt asks much of the same questions to the many different fighters in his book and it was interesting to compare their answers. Yet questions were also asked that related specifically to the particuliar boxer's carreer. This book is a must have for the true boxing fan.
Berkwitt didn't shy away from interviewing female boxers. A sport is a sport and if women lace up the gloves, whether you agree with them doing so or not, you've got to respect them and their opinions.
A small thing ... was George Foreman 44 or 45 when he defeated Michael Moore? On page 36, according to Michael Buffer, he was 44. On page 89, Buffer is quoted as saying that he was 45.
I have a moral objection to the interview of a prostitute / stripper / porn star (AKA: adult movie star). In doing so it legitimizes her profession.
Additionally, I don't think that it was necessary or useful for Berkwitt to include interviews from various singers and comedians in his book.
The interviews were insightful and it was hard to put the book down once I started reading it.
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