“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 […]
“THIS DOOR HAS LED MANY TO PAIN AND FAME” stenciled in yellow and blue block letters on a red door. A greeting, a warning, a bit of promotion. If you wanted pain, wanted the fame […]
“You’re going to see fireworks,” said “Dynamite” Daniel Dubois, ahead of his fight with “Juggernaut” Joe Joyce on October 24. Dubois added, “You’re going to see a great technical boxing display from me, with speed […]
“That is what comes of knowing the worst—one is left alone with the worst and it’s like peace.” —Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter *** February 1981. Edith Jeanette, only fourteen years old, abandoned […]
When the bad Moon in your heart sings And your wind-up gears start grinding Your teeth feel you smiling The better, happier you A better, happier you —Giant, Matthew Good Band He was in […]
His story is set now; it has been for years. Vernon Forrest was a champion and humanitarian. That is how we remember him, such that it almost feels mundane to distinguish him as such. And […]
For always the dreams they are there still. — Horacio Castellanos Moya, Senselessness Play his life out ten times, maybe he’s a musician. If Autryana, then just a baby, didn’t need her daddy, if […]
Chechen-born Artur Beterbiev is an anomaly in modern boxing. He boasts an amateur record of 295-5, winning European and world honors along the way, and twice participated in the Olympics. Entering the professional game at […]
This quiz about Drew “Bundini” Brown, Muhammad Ali’s legendary assistant trainer and hype man, was created by Todd D. Snyder author of BUNDINI: Don’t Believe The Hype (August 2020, Hamilcar Publications). *** Test your knowledge: How well […]
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