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 […]
This is the second installment in Carlos Acevedo’s Shoot The Moon series covering the career of Larry Holmes. *** Is it any wonder I reject you first? Fame, fame, fame, fame Is it any wonder […]
This is the first installment in Carlos Acevedo’s Shoot The Moon series covering the career of Larry Holmes. *** Oh, I see myself in a brand new way.—Boston November 10, 1978 There was no […]
Photography implies that we know about the world if we accept it as the camera records it. But this is the opposite of understanding, which starts from not accepting the world as it looks. All […]
A comebacking Ingemar Johansson, who had just seen his reign as heavyweight champion halted by Floyd Patterson, hardly inspired his supporters when, in a huff, he ejected one of his livelier sparring partners from the […]
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 […]
Ron Lyle’s biography, Off The Ropes: The Ron Lyle Story, is now available from Hamilcar Publications. This book is a revised edition, with a new foreword by Showtime boxing analyst and International Boxing Hall of Fame […]
This piece, written by Hamilcar Publications’ Publisher, Kyle Sarofeen, served as the catalyst for connecting with author Todd D. Snyder to write BUNDINI: Don’t Believe The Hype (August 2020, Hamilcar Publications). *** Put a headdress and […]
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