The following is an excerpt, from pages 83-85 of chapter 7, “This Isle of Joy,” from Jacobs Beach: The Mob, The Garden & The Golden Age of Boxing, by Kevin Mitchell. Copyright © 2010 Kevin […]
It was not revenge—not exactly—that motivated Jose Stable during his long march toward Emile Griffith and a shot at the welterweight championship of the world. Stable had been friends with ill-starred Benny Paret, the man […]
The following is the foreword for Slaughter in the Streets: When Boston Became Boxing’s Murder Capital, by Don Stradley. The foreword is written by T. J. English, bestselling author of Paddy Whacked, The Westies, and […]
“It’s a bit of both,” Seanie Monaghan says when I ask him if he feels happy or sad to be back in his old Freeport gym, on Long Island, at the end of a year […]
Constantin Bejenaru asked his employer one day for some time off. He had a fight coming up, which meant he needed to hunker down in his Brooklyn training camp for several weeks and not just […]
Former WBC super-middleweight champion Sakio Bika can think of many places he would like to be, and a suburban Sydney shopping center packed with early Christmas bargain hunters escaping the harsh afternoon sun isn’t one […]
It may not have the clout of Freddie Roach’s Wild Card in Los Angeles or the old-world grandeur of Gleason’s just a few miles away, but trainer Andre Rozier is confident that, in time, his […]
There are people not yet sold on Terence Crawford. They must’ve been smiling in the second round on Saturday night, when the first meaningful punch of ESPN’s main event crashed into Crawford’s jaw, smiling when […]
“Whether or not he is a sinner, I do not know. All I know is this: Once I was blind and now I can see.” These lines from the New English Bible accompany the closing […]
At around 3 a.m., on the morning of October 10, Errol Spence Jr. was ejected from his barrel-rolling Ferrari. His body eventually came to rest in the ICU of Methodist Dallas Medical Center, where he […]
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