Requiem For A Heavyweight
In its visual style and heady narrative, Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962) resembles few other films of its genre and
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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
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Drama In The Bahamas
As with the best books on Muhammad Ali, such as Paul Gallender’s Sonny Liston, Mark Kram’s Ghosts of Manila, or
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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
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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 poverty and obscurity
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The Long Count
More than nine decades have passed since the rematch between Gene Tunney and Jack Dempsey took place on a brisk
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Gentleman Jim Speaks
Originally published in 1925, The Roar of the Crowd is an entertaining first-person account of the pugilistic glories of heavyweight
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One Night In Vegas
Part of ESPN’s acclaimed 30 for 30 series, One Night in Vegas offers fans of boxing and Mike Tyson something other than
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The Calling Of Saint Rocky
The series began with The Prizefighter And The Lady, and then it continued with Requiem For A Heavyweight. Now writers
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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The Luminous Cube & The Roaring Darkness
“Boxing is especially valuable, and there are few spectacles as healthy and beautiful as a boxing match.” These are the
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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
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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
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A Fistful Of Murder
Having already written a book about maniacal South American fighter Edwin Valero, Don Stradley doubtless experienced déjà vu when poring
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Requiem Revisited
A little while back writers Andrew Rihn and David Curcio launched a new series here on boxing movies, with these
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A Requiem For Iron Mike
“The only thing we knew was violence in Brownsville, even with people we love.”
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When We Were Kings
With the death earlier this month of filmmaker Leon Gast, many fight fans are fondly recalling his most celebrated creation,
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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
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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
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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
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The Prizefighter And The Lady
Boxing and cinema have always had a warm relationship. In fact, the very first feature film in the history of
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The Boxing Kings
It’s a most intriguing irony that prizefighting–a brutal and exploitative enterprise baptized as “the red light district of sports” by
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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
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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
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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
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The Darker Road Of Raging Bull
“And then I was hitting Pete as hard as I could and Vickie was screaming, and I was beating Vickie
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