If you think boxing has become a crazy, convoluted, beautiful mess only in the last 25 years, Hank Schwartz has a story to tell you.
When Don King was only a year or two out of a prison cell and Oscar De La Hoya hadn?t taken his first breath, Brooklyn-born telecommunications executive Schwartz arguably was the biggest mover and shaker in boxing. His company, Video Techniques, handled the nascent technology of satellite transmission of major fights to televisions and closed-circuit theaters around the world and also distributed and promoted the biggest bouts from one of the golden eras of the heavyweight division, 1971-75.
Schwartz tells his incredible story in his new book, ?From the Corners of the Ring to the Corners of the Earth.? There?s very little that?s ordinary about the tales in this book, which sometimes pushes the adage ?truth is stranger than fiction? to the edges of belief.
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