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McIlvanney On Boxing

A.J. Liebling will always be boxing’s literary standard bearer, his masterwork The Sweet Science and other books certain to find appreciative fans through the generations. If there’s a ...
On September 4, 2020 / By Ronnie McCluskey
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Sun Kil Moon: “Salvador Sanchez”

In Salvador Sanchez, singer-songwriter Mark Kozelek walks amongst men who died much too soon. Such deaths are tragic by definition, but in the case of the men depicted ...
On August 12, 2020 / By Rafael García
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Fist of the Reich

Max Schmeling was the first German-born world heavyweight champion and the only boxer to defeat Joe Louis in “The Brown Bomber’s” prime. A sporting hero to the German people, he risked ...
On July 19, 2020 / By Eliott McCormick
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Reading The Fights

At first glance, Reading the Fights is a compendium of insightful essays which alternate between examining the responses boxing evokes and bringing to life stories of its past, thus providing ...
On June 14, 2020 / By Rafael García
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The Mysterious Champion

Few champions have ever inspired as much public ambivalence, mistrust, and scorn as Sonny Liston. The frequently violent events of a life spent underneath the bright lights of ...
On May 9, 2020 / By Eliott McCormick
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Off The Ropes: The Ron Lyle Story

I loved it. I loved it. I loved luring a guy into throwing a punch, then landing my own right hand and hurting him and dropping him. I ...
On April 28, 2020 / By Rafael García
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The Sweet Science

One of the obvious realizations upon re-reading A.J. Liebling’s The Sweet Science is that while much has changed in the sport over the last sixty years, some things ...
On April 12, 2020 / By Rafael García
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Berserk: The Tragic Tale Of Edwin Valero

The story of Edwin Valero is one boxing fans know because of his famously all-action, go-for-broke style—he won all 27 of his pro bouts by knockout—and because of ...
On April 4, 2020 / By Joshua Isard
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The Nightmares Of Emile Griffith

Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story explores the ramifications of one of the most infamous moments in the history of professional boxing. On March 24, 1962, at ...
On March 24, 2020 / By Marko Sijan
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The Luminous Cube And The Roaring Darkness

“Boxing is especially valuable, and there are few spectacles as healthy and beautiful as a boxing match.” These are the words of a 26-year-old Vladimir Nabokov, taken from ...
On March 15, 2020 / By Eliott McCormick
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Shadow Box

Even if it had nothing else going for it—something very far from the truth— Shadow Box by George Plimpton will forever remain a bastion of boxing literature because of the ...
On March 9, 2020 / By Rafael García
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The Gods Of War

One of the best parts about being a boxing fan is the vitality of the sport’s history and the spirited debates and discussions that arise from it. The ...
On February 27, 2020 / By Joshua Isard
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The Edge of Fat City

Like humanity, the world of boxing consists largely of losers. Perhaps the most self-defeating kind of loser is one who fails to take responsibility for his failures, instead ...
On February 6, 2020 / By Marko Sijan
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In Sunshine Or In Shadow

The generational sectarian violence in Ireland, or “The Troubles” as they are often called, is something I have always known about, but never understood. I live in Philadelphia ...
On January 30, 2020 / By Joshua Isard
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Cut Time

In Cut Time: An Education at the Fights, Carlo Rotella expounds deeply on a thesis boxing fans have heard before; namely, that the fight game serves as a ...
On January 11, 2020 / By Rafael García
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The Blood Feud

HBO’s 2008 film Thrilla In Manila is a sports documentary with an agenda; not necessarily a bad thing, but when a bias obscures and twists the truth, as happens here, ...
On December 28, 2019 / By Michael Carbert
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A Requiem for Iron Mike

“The only thing we knew was violence in Brownsville, even with people we love.” — ...
On December 13, 2019 / By Eliott McCormick
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Gravity

In recent years women’s boxing has taken huge strides forward, its participants commanding more attention than ever before. Tokyo 2020 will the third Olympic Games to feature a ...
On November 27, 2019 / By Joshua Isard
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Requiem For A Heavyweight

In its visual style and heady narrative, Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962) resembles few other films of its genre and ranks among the greatest boxing movies of all ...
On November 20, 2019 / By Marko Sijan
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The Boxing Kings

It’s one of life’s most interesting ironies that prizefighting–a brutal, often exploitative, enterprise baptized as “the red light district of sports” by the late Jimmy Cannon–is the most ...
On November 14, 2019 / By Rafael García
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The Story Of The Cincinnati Cobra

Like anyone who identifies as something of a boxing diehard, I’m familiar with the name Ezzard Charles. However, if pressed I could not tell you much more than ...
On October 10, 2019 / By Ronnie McCluskey
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Golden Gloves

In grainy black and white, half-naked boys and young men form a line in a Montreal gymnasium. They’re lean and fit, registration cards tucked into snug white briefs ...
On October 2, 2019 / By Marko Sijan
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The Long Count

Nine decades have passed since the rematch between Gene Tunney and Jack Dempsey took place on a brisk September evening at Chicago’s Soldier Field in 1927, and in ...
On September 22, 2019 / By Patrick Connor
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Interview With Todd Snyder

An amateur boxer prowling the stands in desperation, looking for a last-second opponent. Silver Gloves competitions filled with anxious fighting novices. “Tough Man” contests brimming with fighters long ...
On September 20, 2019 / By Rafael García
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Facing Ali

Casualties of a cruel sport. Broken spokes on boxing’s eternal wheel. Archetypes for the noble poor. Or, to cast such reductive generalizing aside, perhaps just men who made a choice. Facing Ali, ...
On August 24, 2019 / By Eliott McCormick
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Gentleman Jim Speaks

The Roar of the Crowd: The True Tale of the Rise and Fall of a Champion Originally published in 1925, The Roar of the Crowd is an entertaining ...
On August 13, 2019 / By Rafael García
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Punching From The Shadows

In labeling Punching from the Shadows a memoir, Glen Sharp might be selling short his autobiographical work. More than a memoir, Sharp presents in his book a thorough ...
On August 12, 2019 / By Rafael García
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Ray Mancini: The Good Son

The 1980s remain perhaps the most successful decade in boxing’s history, a rare time when the sport was highly popular and widely accepted as mainstream entertainment. Champions such ...
On July 29, 2019 / By Rafael García
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I Fight For A Living

One of boxing’s most enduring tropes is that of the prizefighter who punches his way out of the depths of poverty and obscurity and into a life of ...
On June 30, 2019 / By Rafael García
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Dark Trade

My earliest memory of boxing is a poster for Mike Tyson vs Michael Spinks from back in 1988, the big heavyweight superfight that lasted exactly 91 seconds. The poster ...
On June 21, 2019 / By Joshua Isard

The Fight City

Montreal is The Fight City. Known in years past as "Sin City" and "Babylon on the St. Lawrence", it saw more than its share of ring legends over the decades. A metropolis where hundreds of young warriors train and battle each day in its many gyms, it is where Archie Moore, Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran and Bernard Hopkins all found greatness. It is a city of fights and fighters, of hockey and heroes, of broken dreams and immortal glory, a city unlike any other. Montreal is The Fight City.

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