“THIS IS BOXING” in neon lights pulsed behind the ring in the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, a backdrop to the impending attrition. That arrangement was reminiscent of a zoo exhibit, where an introduction to […]
“It is my duty to take you to a rehabilitation center,” Rosendo Alvarez told him last week in a video posted to Alvarez’s Facebook page. The contrast in their appearances was telling. Full face, clear […]
“THIS DOOR HAS LED MANY TO PAIN AND FAME” stenciled in yellow and blue block letters on a red door. A greeting, a warning, a bit of promotion. If you wanted pain, wanted the fame […]
“That is what comes of knowing the worst—one is left alone with the worst and it’s like peace.” —Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter *** February 1981. Edith Jeanette, only fourteen years old, abandoned […]
When the bad Moon in your heart sings And your wind-up gears start grinding Your teeth feel you smiling The better, happier you A better, happier you —Giant, Matthew Good Band He was in […]
His story has been set for years. Vernon Forrest was a champion and humanitarian. That is how we remember him; it almost feels mundane to distinguish him so. Isn’t that ridiculous? Consider what passes for […]
The following article by Jimmy Tobin is a companion piece to his book, Killed In Brazil?: The Mysterious Death Of Arturo “Thunder” Gatti. *** Everything changes on Saturday night in Atlantic City. That’s for sure. […]
For always the dreams they are there still. — Horacio Castellanos Moya, Senselessness Play his life out ten times, maybe he’s a musician. If Autryana, then just a baby, didn’t need her daddy, if […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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