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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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  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 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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  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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  Scribe Of “The Fancy”

  Great stories always involve great characters, so it makes sense that so many fiction writers have taken boxers as their subjects. Few sports make such drastic demands on ...

  On January 15, 2018 / By Joshua Isard
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  One Night In Vegas

  It was inevitable that somewhere in ESPN’s acclaimed 30 for 30 series there would be a film on Mike Tyson. But instead of a conventional documentary on Tyson’s life, which ...

  On September 1, 2015 / By Eliott McCormick
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  The Champion of Writers

  “Foreman now nodded, gave an unexpected smile, and proceeded to make his kind remark about a champ at writing.” – Norman Mailer, meeting George Foreman for the first time. ...

  On March 1, 2015 / By Eliott McCormick