HEAR THE STORY
REGINA AND BIG CURT’S KIDS
A wedding brings Curtis back to North Philly, where a boy’s wish for a brother became a lifetime of love, pressure, and protection.
PUT MY GRANDSON DOWN
Inside Jessie Mae’s kitchen, one warning became a family legend about love, danger, and the line no one was allowed to cross.
THE LEGEND OF JESSIE MAE
She was fierce, flawed, feared, and unforgettable. Jessie Mae’s love shaped Curtis, even when her wounds left scars.
DIAZ, CENTRAL HIGH
A loud challenge from Central High turned one wrestling match into a public test of pride, reputation, and the name Kingpin.
KINGPIN: A MEMOIR REVIEW
NotebookLM reviews Kingpin: A Memoir and breaks down the voice, structure, emotional force, and power of the story.
About the Book
Kingpin is the true story of Curtis Ingram’s journey from a hard childhood in Philadelphia to becoming one of the city’s top young athletes while carrying burdens far heavier than most people ever saw. Raised in a world shaped by pressure, instability, and survival, he found discipline through sport, strength through struggle, and purpose through refusing to become a product of his environment.
At its heart, Kingpin is a story about family, pain, loyalty, identity, and the long fight to rise above what was meant to break you.
Not the Wins. The Coming Back.
That is what Kingpin is really about. Not the trophies. Not the rankings. Not the headlines. The coming back. The discipline of turning pain into purpose and pressure into power.
About Curtis Ingram
Curtis Ingram is the oldest of ten children, raised in Philadelphia, where he became the number one ranked heavyweight wrestler in the city and an All-City football player at Overbrook High School.
He went on to become a first-generation college student, a dual-sport college athlete, a U.S. Army veteran, a law enforcement officer, and a longtime safety and security professional. Today, he is a husband, father, grandfather, and author of a powerful true story of pain, pressure, survival, discipline, and responsibility.
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