“Evander Holyfield once said, ‘You make your reputation in the amateurs. Period.’ There I was, this A-list elite amateur boxer, everybody looking at me with all these expectations in my professional debut against Jerry Jones […]
The following is an excerpt, from pages 83-85 of chapter 7, “This Isle of Joy,” from Jacobs Beach: The Mob, The Garden & The Golden Age of Boxing, by Kevin Mitchell. Copyright © 2010 Kevin […]
It was not revenge—not exactly—that motivated Jose Stable during his long march toward Emile Griffith and a shot at the welterweight championship of the world. Stable had been friends with ill-starred Benny Paret, the man […]
The following is the foreword for Slaughter in the Streets: When Boston Became Boxing’s Murder Capital, by Don Stradley. The foreword is written by T. J. English, bestselling author of Paddy Whacked, The Westies, and […]
“It’s a bit of both,” Seanie Monaghan says when I ask him if he feels happy or sad to be back in his old Freeport gym, on Long Island, at the end of a year […]
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