“That’s him,” you tell your friend, “the tank with the military haircut, the gap between his front teeth, a touch of the unhinged in his gaze.” Tapping the screen, you make the pixels swirl with […]
He was one of the earliest Sugar Ray knockoffs, but unlike other first-wave Robinson devotees—Johnny Saxton, Freddie Dawson, and Johnny Bratton, for example—George Costner actually had the audacity to dub himself “Sugar.” Costner, a welterweight […]
Ever since Brooklyn button man Bugsy Siegel opened the Flamingo Hotel in 1946, Las Vegas has been the pit stop for casual, catchall amorality in the United States. But not even Sin City seems willing […]
Putting music to boxing is nothing new. A good example I came across recently was Steve Coleman, a respected jazz saxophonist who did a record in part by watching fights on mute, mapping fighters’ movements […]
My Wall Street friend and I drove up to Hartford from Westport in my green Town Car with the white landau roof. My neighbor called it a pimpmobile. A couple of hours later, we’d see […]
My date said she could see Danny “Bhoy” O’Connor’s eyes roll back into his head when Gabriel Bracero knocked him cold forty-four seconds into round one. I was in the beer line inside the Lowell […]
Browse Hannibal Boxing’s technical analysis articles >> *** Lee Wylie, contributor to the excellent Montreal-based blog “The Fight City,” gained exposure when Jim Lampley praised him during an HBO broadcast, citing his analysis of Chocalito […]