“I picked up chess through the process of elimination, saying I can’t move here or there. That made me understand the legitimate moves, and then once you learn the moves, you start putting them together. […]
This is the seventh installment in Carlos Acevedo’s Shoot The Moon series covering the career of Larry Holmes. *** July 7, 1980 For the good old American life: For the money, for the glory, and for […]
The following is the foreword for The Ghost of Johnny Tapia, by Paul Zanon. The foreword is written by Sammy Hagar, one of Jonny’s friends and once had the honor of working Johnny’s corner vs. Marco […]
“Workin’, drivin’ trucks.” That’s how one of the greatest punchers of the past twenty-five years provides for his family now. And he couldn’t be happier. Randall Bailey doesn’t miss boxing. “You have no idea what […]
“Nobody thought I’d become world champion. In fact, nobody thought I’d beat Crawford Ashley, Ole Klemetsen or many of the other guys I beat. In a fight, I was never afraid of losing because nobody […]
It was hard to see anyone lasting twenty-four rounds with Deontay Wilder. Disparage his technique, those comical spasms of aggression carried on the ungainly stilts of a newborn giraffe; mock his mask fetish and affinity […]
After more than a year of infomercials, mismatches, network cloak-and-dagger, promotional shell games, and the kind of 24-7 hype that makes “Hell is other people” (Sartre) a cyberspace specialty, the rematch between Deontay Wilder and […]
“Winning the world title? It never really sets in at the moment you achieve something like that, but I want to put it into perspective. I remember saying to people, ‘When I have my first […]
Boxing’s end-of-year award season came and went without Jean Pascal receiving his due. No surprise there. Pascal isn’t one of the world’s best fighters, nor did he beat one in 2019. He also lacks the […]
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