Jerry Boyd

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F.X. Toole is the

Oscar-winning movie Million Dollar Baby

in 2004. F.X. Toole's posthumous novel Pound for Pound was released in 2006 to rave reviews. Cutman, a one-hour dramatic series set in the world of boxing, drawn from short stories by F.X. Toole, is in development by AMC Television.

Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner is dedicated to Dub Huntley, the man who introduced Boyd to boxing, and many of the characters and events related in the book are from Dub Huntley's life and experience. Huntley trained Boyd to box when Boyd was in his 40s and the two became friends during that time. Huntley was the trainer for world champions

Maggie Fitzgerald in Million Dollar Baby

. Boyd was born and raised in Long Beach, California, and died in Torrance, CA of a heart attack at age 71.

References

^ Richard Sandomir (August 22, 2000). "A Trainer Turned Writer Rolls With the Punches". The New York Times. Retrieved July 22, 2023.

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