*** “Someday we’ll find it, the rainbow connection. The lovers, the dreamers, and me.” Kermit, The Muppets Take Manhattan June 22, 1979 For nearly two years Larry Holmes, “The Easton Assassin,” had listened, bitterly, […]
Perhaps it was the aura of his opponent, a fighter with a preternatural—grotesque even—capacity for violence. Or maybe it was the troubles both professional and personal dogging him. He was the opponent that night, too; […]
Wherever Nigel Benn went in the 1980s, chaos followed. Five years in the military and eighteen months in Northern Ireland had prepared him poorly for post-institutional life. That he was already angry, confused, powerful, and […]
This is the ninth piece in a ten-part series looking at the fighters whose stories make Donald McRae’s Dark Trade the enduring classic that it is. Learn more about the 1st U.S. edition of Dark […]
“The brief, harsh dramas that change the lives of fighters are often enacted in memorably peculiar places,” as Hugh McIlvanney once wrote. So it was for Donald Curry, when a little-known welterweight from South London […]
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, by Kevin Mitchell, from Hamilcar Publications, we take a look at the central figure in this noirish […]
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. Learn more about the 1st U.S. edition of Dark […]
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