By Brian D'Ambrosio
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In the Golden Age of boxing, Marvin Camel—a combined blood from the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana—defied all stumbling blocks of race, poverty, and geographical isolation to develop into the 1st local American to win an international boxing title.
Complex and wildly charismatic, Camel mixed great actual expertise with miraculous self-discipline—forged through the edge of his father’s belt—to claw his method to the pinnacle, two times successful international titles within the newly minted cruiserweight department and battling at the comparable playing cards as boxing icons Roberto Duran, Larry Holmes, Sugar Ray Leonard, and Bob Foster.
Camel’s trip used to be an grand instance of gritty choice: punishing runs on Montana’s again roads, relentless education in make-shift gyms, napping in beat-up automobiles ahead of fights in glittering Las Vegas, or even education and struggling with for a global championship overseas, alone.
Always, Camel willingly represented his kingdom and his humans, proudly donning his eagle-feather headdress into the hoop. but with luck got here sacrifice and ache, either actual and private, yet in existence as within the boxing ring, Camel emerged bloody yet unbowed.
With impossible to resist aspect gleaned from years of frank interviews with Camel, his friends and family, his former competitors, and pro boxing insiders, Brian D’Ambrosio’s gripping biography captures the drama, threat, attractiveness, and ugliness of boxing, of Indian lifestyles on reservations, and particularly, of the lifetime of a stereotype-shattering guy who encouraged his humans and boxing lovers far and wide along with his braveness, achievements, and nice warrior heart.
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