Shot At the Brothel : The Spectacular Demise of Oscar “Ringo” Bonavena Paperback / softback

by Patrick Connor

Part of the Hamilcar Noir series

Paperback / softback

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â€œHookers. Murder. Boxing. Author Patrick Connor lays out the promise of all three right there in the title of his first book, â€˜Shot at a Brothelâ€™â€¦delivering on the promiseâ€¦Readers who want to see the Ali era from a less explored angle, with a story that stands on its own, are well served with this read.â€â€”Boxing SceneOscar Bonavena remains a god in Argentina.

Fighting as a heavyweight during the 1970s, the divisionâ€™s greatest era, â€œRingoâ€ battled titans like Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier. To resurrect his career, he moved to Reno, Nevada, and hooked up with a local pimp and gangster, Joe Conforte, who ran the infamous Mustang Ranch with his madam wife, Sally. Bonavena had some of boxingâ€™s best handlers, but none â€“ from famous trainers to rich syndicates to the sportâ€™s top mindsâ€”could tame him. And no one could get Conforte and his whorehouse and ex-con goons out of Reno.

Ultimately, Ringo plunged into a maelstrom of sex and mayhemâ€”and he wouldnâ€™t get out alive. In Shot at a Brothel, Patrick Connor examines in riveting detail Bonavenaâ€™s fast, turbulent life as well as Conforteâ€™s sordid past.

Long overdue, hereâ€™s the real story of how gangsterism, greed, and prostitution destroyed Argentinaâ€™s greatest heavyweight. Shot at a Brothel: The Spectacular Demise of Oscar "Ringo" Bonavena is the sixth in the Hamilcar Noir True Crime series.

Hamilcar Noir is "Hard-Hitting True Crime" that blends boxing and true crime, featuring riveting stories captured in high-quality prose, with cover art inspired by classic pulp novels.