The world is always ready to be amazed, but the self, that lynx-eyed monitor, sees all the subterfuges, all the cut corners, and is not deceived. —John Banville, The Infinities *** It is perfectly understandable. […]
“I’m not happy, don’t you believe that shit. I’ll fight every day,” he says with a punctuating chuckle. He’s joking, at least partially so. Nate Campbell is certainly happy, his easy conversation carried by the […]
Were Tolstoy following boxing today, he might observe that all unhappy boxers are alike; but that each happy boxer is happy in his own manner. What awaits the men who find but one route beyond […]
“Only now is the child finally divested of all that he had been.”—Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian William Quintana’s story begins before there is a William Quintana, back in San Jose, Costa Rica, when […]
“My third pro fight was on the Riddick Bowe–Andrew Golota undercard at Madison Square Garden. And when I came out and saw all the lights, I thought, ‘This is where you wanna be. But you […]
There were two explosions when Gervonta “Tank” Davis mollywhopped Leo Santa Cruz on Halloween night at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. First, there was the booming sound of a supersonic left uppercut connecting—on target—against […]
Now trained by Robert Lee and Billy Giles, who lived at 140th street off Lennox Avenue, the best antidote to Hector Camacho’s restlessness was to keep him busy. They relied on Harold Weston, matchmaker at […]
The following article by Christian Giudice is a companion piece to his book, Macho Time: The Meteoric Rise and Tragic Fall of Hector Camacho. *** Back in the late 1970s, the Cosmo Theatre on 176 […]
“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 […]
“Phil Mushnick wrote a column when I was going to cover the Hagler versus Hearns fight. I was only five years into my job with ESPN and he said, ‘Your career feels to me like […]