Browsing Tag George Plimpton

  • Boxiana 3

    Oct. 26, 1970: Ali vs Quarry I

    Following his successful defense of the heavyweight championship against Zora Folley in March of 1967, Muhammad Ali’s career soon came to a grinding halt. The following month he ...

    On October 26, 2019 / By
  • Fight City Reviews 1

    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
  • Fight City Reviews 2

    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
  • Fight City Reviews 0

    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
  • Fight City Reviews 2

    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
  • Columns 2

    The Making of Machiavelli

    “The Rumble in the Jungle” was devised by a killer and paid for by a crook. You could reverse these tags and they would still be true. In ...

    On October 29, 2014 / By
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