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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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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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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 July 24, 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 the Mike Tyson vs Michael Spinks superfight from back in 1988, the big heavyweight superfight that lasted exactly 91 ...
On June 21, 2019 / By Joshua Isard
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Johnny Tapia: Boxing Saved His Life

HBO’s Tapia begins with an overhead shot of the New Mexico desert. The camera pans across the yellow landscape and settles on a solitary man, walking with his ...
On May 30, 2019 / By Eliott McCormick
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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 April 9, 2019 / By Rafael García
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McIlvanney On Boxing

A.J. Liebling will always be boxing’s literary standard bearer, his masterwork The Sweet Science certain to find appreciative fans through the generations. If there’s a top table of ...
On April 3, 2019 / By Ronnie McCluskey
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Ali: A Life

The latest biography of Muhammad Ali, surely the most written-about boxer in history, is also the longest, and will be among the best-selling and most-read. Jonathan Eig’s Ali: A ...
On March 28, 2019 / By Michael Ezra
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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 22, 2019 / By Marko Sijan
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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 February 27, 2019 / By Rafael García
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The Bittersweet Science

“The more you know about boxing, the more you discover that you never truly know what’s going on,” write editors Carlo Rotella and Michael Ezra in their introduction ...
On January 23, 2019 / By Eliott McCormick
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Yo, Adrian! Here We Go Again!

And so I’ve now seen Creed II, the successful sequel to the surprisingly effective and popular 2015 film, Creed. In this second installment, Adonis Creed, son of deceased ...
On January 10, 2019 / By Sean Crose
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Sonny Liston: 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 December 30, 2018 / By Eliott McCormick
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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 December 27, 2018 / By Eliott McCormick
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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 December 22, 2018 / By Eliott McCormick
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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 60 years, other things ...
On November 26, 2018 / 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 November 17, 2018 / By Joshua Isard
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When We Were Kings

More than two decades ago, one of the finest boxing documentaries ever made was finally released. The Academy Award-winning When We Were Kings details Muhammad Ali’s 1974 fight with ...
On October 24, 2018 / By Eliott McCormick
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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 October 13, 2018 / By Marko Sijan
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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 October 2, 2018 / By Michael Carbert
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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 September 18, 2018 / By Rafael García
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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 August 19, 2018 / By Rafael García
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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 August 12, 2018 / By Rafael García
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A Requiem for Iron Mike

“The only thing we knew was violence in Brownsville, even with people we love.” — Mike Tyson We cannot escape Mike Tyson. Never boxing’s patron saint but no ...
On May 28, 2018 / By Eliott McCormick

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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