On the night of September 16, 1981, the biggest and most anticipated welterweight championship bout in boxing history was contested. In addition to that the participants, WBC champ Sugar Ray Leonard 30-1 (21) and WBA […]
In tandem with the release of Jacobs Beach: The Mob, the Garden & the Golden Age of Boxing, we take a look at the central figure in this noirish look at boxing and its underbelly […]
Never the world’s greatest mixer, I had accommodated myself to long silences at the 2004 International Boxing Hall of Fame dinner in Canastota, New York, even at a dinner table populated with eager pugilistic fans. […]
This is the final installment in Carlos Acevedo’s After The Fall series looking at Floyd Patterson’s late career. “Glass jaw? I’ve been beaten, but only by champs. I’m still around after 17 years. If I […]
This is the third piece in a ten-part series looking at the fighters whose stories make Donald McRae’s Dark Trade the enduring classic that it is. New U.S. edition coming from Hamilcar Publications February 2019. Before […]
This is the second installment in Carlos Acevedo’s After The Fall series looking at Floyd Patterson’s late career. “He could have knocked Patterson out whenever he wanted, but let’s face it, Clay is selfish and […]
This is the first installment in Carlos Acevedo’s After The Fall series looking at Floyd Patterson’s late career. “How could the same thing happen twice? How? That’s all I kept thinking after the knockout… Was […]
Is it any wonder I reject you first? Fame, fame, fame, fame Is it any wonder you are too cool to fool? (fame) Fame, bully for you, chilly for me Got to get a rain […]
Oh, I see myself in a brand new way.—Boston November 10, 1978 There was no comparison between the cut-rate twilights he shared cheap motel rooms with his trainer en route to pick-up fights in […]
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 […]
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