And after a while I wasn’t twenty-five, then not even thirty-five, and nothing was quite as good. —F. Scott Fitzgerald With his high-voltage style, his wrecking ball left hook, his roughneck good looks, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
It was over, more or less, at the weigh-in. When Andy Ruiz Jr. scaled 283 pounds the day before his scheduled rematch with Anthony Joshua, he did so resembling a tipsy tourist strolling along a […]
When Josh Taylor and Regis “Rougarou” Prograis signed contracts in 2018 binding them to the World Boxing Super Series, they assured themselves of one thing: danger. The wallflowers, morning glories, and small dreamers of contemporary […]
This piece by Carlos Acevedo, author of Sporting Blood, is a companion to Berserk: The Shocking Life and Death of Edwin Valero, written by Don Stradley (Hamilcar Publications, November 2019). *** 1. “Beneath it all, desire […]
Just two and a half years ago, the PBC pettifogging machine announced a welterweight tournament, of sorts, that promised to bring some elusive clarity to one of the most talent-rich divisions in boxing. It never […]
This is the sixth installment in Carlos Acevedo’s Shoot The Moon series covering the career of Larry Holmes. *** March 31, 1980 “Never being happy isn’t the same as being unhappy. Is it?”— Montgomery McNeil, Fame […]
When Otto Wallin was born, in 1990, professional boxing was still outlawed in Sweden, a country that turned its back on blood sports barely a decade after producing a national hero in Ingemar Johansson. Wallin, […]
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