Browsing Tag Norman Mailer

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  Fight City Reviews 1

  When We Were Kings

  With the death earlier this month of filmmaker Leon Gast, many fight fans are fondly recalling his most celebrated creation, a much-loved documentary which somehow seems as fresh ...

  On March 30, 2021 / By Eliott McCormick
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  Fight City Reviews 4

  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, 2021 / By Marko Sijan
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  Top 12 Reasons Why Muhammad Ali Is The Greatest

  Today is the anniversary of the birth of the amazing athlete who changed boxing forever and, as we must each year, we take time to celebrate his life ...

  On January 17, 2021 / By Michael Carbert
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  Fight City Reviews 2

  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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  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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  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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  Fight City Reviews 2

  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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  Fight City Reviews 3

  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