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Love, Boxing and Hunter S. Thompson
Check out this long 2012 essay on Love, Boxing, and Hunter S. Thompson by John Kaye over at the Los Angeles Review of Books:...
Floyd Mayweather On Fighting Manny Pacquiao: "He Blew It"
Floyd Mayweather is winding down his fighting career, and according to him, any hypothetical bout between him and Manny Pacquiao will never happen....
The Elements of Style: "I Never Liked Fighting"
My father wasn’t a boxing fan but talked about Sugar Ray Robinson with admiration. Robinson was a brutal and efficient fighter, I was told, “pound-for-pound, the greatest boxer of all-time."...
Boxer Proposes To His Boyfriend On Facebook
Boxer Orlando Cruz proposed to his boyfriend today on Facebook. "The Phenomenon," left, went the DJ Khaled route, and popped José Manuel the question by uploading a video. According to the Latin Times, Cruz, who's Puerto Rican, spoke in Spanish:...
The Cinderella Man
From the cool-ass site—of two cool-ass books—please enjoy Damon Runyon's 1935 column, "The Cinderella Man":...
Sergey Liakhovich Gets KO'd In The First Round, Convulses On Mat
Heavyweight Deontay Wilder had a 28-0 record with 28 knockouts coming into his bout against Sergey Liakhovich. He notched his 29th KO in a little under two minutes in the first round, causing Liakhovich to convulse and fall into the fencing response....
Mind The Gap
From the New York Magazine archives, here’s the late, great Vic Ziegel on Ali-Spinks II:...
Legends Of The Fall
Fight fans as well as movie fans will enjoy this—George Kimball’s wonderful piece about Budd Schulberg’s memorial service back in the fall of 2009....
Everything Plays
And now for something completely different: Vladimir Nabokov on boxing:...
Cardboard Busts
Via Oddity Central, dig these busts of famous people by Scott Fife. ...
Patterson and Talese: A Good Combination
Kip Stratton edited a collection of Grover Lewis' journalism and wrote a book of poetry about Sam Peckinpah. He also wrote a good biography of Floyd Patterson, who we covered here recently. I interviewed Kip last summer and he talked about Patterson and Gay Talese:...
Boxer Watches Knockout, Provides Play-By-Play With Sound Effects
This is great. Curtis Stevens knocked out Saul Roman last night with a devastating left hook in the first round. It was the second time he knocked Roman down. In the post-fight interview, Stevens was asked to discuss the the knockdowns and provided colorful, Michael Winslow-like analysis. ...
Memphis Kid And The Horrible Truth About Prize Fighting
W.C. Heinz was one of the great American journalists. A war correspondent, columnist, features writer, biographer, and novelist, he excelled in every form he tried....
Black And Blue
Not Shaking The Grass features Nicole Howalt's 2012 photo series: Boxers: Before and After the Fight. ...
Boxer Shouts Out “San Diego ... San Antonio, My Bad!”
At least Keith Thurman won the WBA welterweight title with his win over Diego Chaves on Saturday....
Here's The Deadly Fight That Haunted Gay Boxer Emile Griffith
Former welterweight world champion Emile Griffith died this morning, at the age of 75, according to the International Boxing Hall of Fame....
How Muhammad Ali Conquered Fear And Changed the World
More Ali. This one's from Mikal Gilmore, Men's Journal, 2011:...
The Loser: The Most Honest Sports Story Ever Written
Originally published in the March 1964 issue of Esquire. Reprinted here with the author's permission....
Extra! Ali Throws Punch, Hurts Man!
When Muhammad Ali beat Sonny Liston in their May 1965 title-bout rematch in Lewiston, Maine, a legend was born. Or, more accurately, a legendary controversy was born. Ali (who ditched his Cassius Marcellus Clay "slave" name for his Elijah Muhammad-sanctioned Muslim moniker after defeating Liston in ...