From Rings to Ringlets

About the Book

This is the true tale of a cherubic angel, born of Scottish, Welsh, and Turkish decent. Early that morning in the middle of a blinding snow storm, with the temperature hovering near zero, the bedlam began. An antiquated oblong oak table in Grandma Lloyd's kitchen, was scrubbed and sanitized in preparation of my exalted arrival, plus being the first grandchild and a boy, held great momentous value! For better or worse, his story is a result of growing up on the rough side of a rough world. After many fights, both amateur and professional, I met an old friend who was in the beauty business. Attracted by the lure of money, I changed my name, got a manicure and became an International Hairdressing Champion. This is a recounting of the adventures of both worlds and the activities and ventures in between, some legitimate and some...well...! It is a true and fascinating story, as one New York writer once penned, "From Ring to Ringlets".

About the Author

Marcel Haigy, with the perennial desire “to be somebody,” began his quest in Clairton, Pennsylvania in the mid 1940’s. The shabby, dark, dingy boxing gyms on the knavish streets of Blair heights and Hunky Town, beckoned him.

After fifty one professional fights, from Montreal to Havana, Madison Square Garden to Miami Beach, and New Orleans to Detroit, a new and vastly diverse transformation evolved.

When will the time come, to “hang ’em up” ! Obviously not yet, predicated on his recent venture of parachuting from 12,000 feet, on his 80th birthday.