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From the streets of Philadelphia to the fight for manhood and redemption.
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.
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.

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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