Glove Affair

This book chronicles Randy Gordon’s 40-plus years in professional boxing as a broadcaster, ring announcer, NY State Athletic Commissioner, editor of Ring Magazine, and host of SiriusXM’s "At the Fights." It includes stories featuring Muhammad Ali, Alexis Arguello, and Mike Tyson, and provides a behind-the-scenes look at the politics of the sport.

Randy Gordon has been involved with boxing for over 40 years, as a fighter, writer, reporter, referee, editor-in-chief of The Ring magazine-the biggest and oldest boxing magazine in the world-chairman of the New York State Athletic Commission, and host of SiriusXM's At the Fights. He is the author of Muhammad Ali (2001) and The Ultimate NBA Sticker Book (2002). Gordon was inducted into the New Jersey Boxing Hall of Fame in 2004 and the New York State Boxing Hall of Fame in 2016.

Foreword Tracy Morgan Acknowledgments 1: The Rock and Mr. Boxing 2: Glove Affair 3: El Flaco Explosivo 4: The Ring 5: A Choice to Make 6: Terrible Teddy, Wild Bill, and Unswerving Irving 7: "Murder, Plain and Simple" 8: Handball Jim and Dollar Bill 9: Catskill Thunder 10: Commissioner Gordon 11: It's about Time 12: The Greatest of All Time 13: Truth or Trickeration 14: Two King-Sized White Envelopes 15: The Good Guy Award 16: Gentleman Gerry Epilogue Index About the Author