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"When I fight someone, I want to break his will. I want to take his manhood. I want to rip out his heart and show it to him." - Mike Tyson
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May 31
At Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas (PPV), Shane Mosley, Pomona, Calif., vs. Zab Judah, Brooklyn, N.Y., 12, welterweights; Jorge Barrios, Argentina, vs. Rocky Juarez, Houston, 12, junior lightweights.
June 7
At Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, N.J. (HBO), Kelly Pavlik, Youngstown, Ohio, vs. Gary Lockett, Wales, 12, for Pavlik's WBC and WBA middleweight titles; Daniel Ponce De Leon, Mexico, vs. Juan Manuel Lopez, Puerto Rico, 12, for Ponce De Leon's WBO junior featherweight title.
At Mohegan Sun, Uncasville, Conn. (SHO), Vernon Forrest, Atlanta, vs. Sergio Mora, Los Angeles, 12, for Forrest's WBC junior middleweight title; Carlos Quintana, Puerto Rico, vs. Paul Williams, Augusta, Ga., 12, for Quintana's WBO welterweight title.
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Book Reviews |
Ali Book: The Soul of a ButterflyBy Tom Donelson
The Soul Of A Butterflyis not a book about boxing; it is a book about life. Muhammad Ali reflection on his life co-written with his daughter Hana Yasmeen Ali deals with issues that go beyond boxing. Ali details his own journey from the small skinny kid who started boxing to punish […] (Read Full Article)
Boxing is My Sanctuaryby John Howard
Maybe we need to add a new name to the list of boxing writers out there today. Ted Sares can flat out write about boxing.
Prior to the release of his book, Ted, a private investor by trade, has specialized in articles, essays and short stories. His book Boxing Is My Sanctuary is a […] (Read Full Article)
Kindred SpiritsBy Scott Wilkerson
Sound and Fury: Two Powerful Lives, One Fateful Friendship
by Dave Kindred
Free Press
368 pp
$27
If, in the philosophical economy of knowledge, the truest disclosures of the Self are somehow dependent upon those of another, then boxing is the primordial sport of discovery, a mirror reflecting, diffracting our first and final nature. Dave […] (Read Full Article)
Off the Canvasby Tom Donelson
Tony Petrovic is a boxer, an old boxer. Now 80, what he has left is memories of times gone past and “Off the Canvas” is author Rusty Rubin attempt to show the changes of America over the past 70 years through the eyes of Tony Petrovic.
This book is written on two levels. The […] (Read Full Article)
Gloves: A Boxing ChronicleBy Scott Wilkerson
cscottwilkerson@hotmail.com
Book Review: Gloves: A Boxing Chronicle
Robert Anasi
North Point Press 331 pp $24
If the nature of sport is to stage metaphoric representations of the human drama, then it follows that boxing is the sport from which all others derive their symbolic force. Indeed, the image of a singular Hellenic man battling his singular opponent […] (Read Full Article)
Bert Sugar ON BOXINGBy Scoop Malinowski
Bert Randolph Sugar is at it again. One of boxing’s most recognizable personalities has penned his latest book titled “Bert Sugar ON BOXING.”
Here’s what they’re saying about “Bert Sugar ON BOXING.”
“Bert Sugar ON BOXING picks up where A.J. Leibling’s The Sweet Science left off.” -Allen Barra, The Wall Street Journal
“This is Bert […] (Read Full Article)
Operation Clean-Up, by Charles JayBy Ron Widelec
Earlier this year I had the great pleasure to stumble across a fantastic book titled Operation Clean-Up. I had heard about the book a few times, but after hearing an interview with the author Charles Jay, on MaxBoxing.com I decided to take a look at the book.
As it turns out Charles Jay is […] (Read Full Article)
Viewing Boxing From RingsideBy S. L. Compton
Ring Sports Magazine, BoxingInsider.com Writer:
Viewing Boxing From Ringside (Writers Club Press, 146 pages, paperback, $14.95) is a newly published collection of articles and musings by Frank Lotierzo and Tom Donelson. The Genesis of this book can be traced back to the excellent website www.Cyberboxingzone.com.
Cyberboxingzone is a place where scholarly boxing minds […] (Read Full Article)
Cleveland Boxing GreatsThe following was submitted by Jim Amato:
The great city of Cleveland has a rich boxing history and much of that is captured in Jerry Fitch’s book ” Cleveland’s Greatest Fighters Of All Time “.
You don’t have to be from Cleveland or Ohio for that matter to enjoy this book. It is a must read […] (Read Full Article)
Bummy Davis and Murder, Inc.By Mike Greenhill
Book Review —- Bummy Davis and Murder, Inc.: The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Mafia and an Ill-Fated Prizefighter
The history of organized crime in America’s 20th century, and in New York City in particular, has been well chronicled. Movies, books and television have brought the mobster to life, both to […] (Read Full Article)
Cut Time: An Education at the FightsBy Scott Wilkerson
Cut Time: An Education at the Fights
Carlo Rotella
Houghton Mifflin $24
222 pp
In her masterful study, On Boxing, Joyce Carol Oates observes: “One of the paradoxes of boxing is that the viewer inhabits a consciousness so very different from that of the boxer as to suggest a counter-world.” Given this radical formulation, it is indeed […] (Read Full Article)
The Professional - W.C. HeinzBy Scott Wilkerson
At a moment when it appears that the entire culture of boxing punditry is clamoring either to defend or to condemn America’s last remaining sport, W.C. Heinz’s induction into the hall of fame is decisive proof that the fight game will go the distance against any opponent in the media, politics, or indeed […] (Read Full Article)
More Tales From RingsideBy Scott Wilerson
More Tales From Ringside
Tom Donelson and Frank Lotierzo
iUniverse
191 pp
In his classic novel, Tristram Shandy, Laurence Stern instructs that a man’s body and mind are linked like a coat and its lining: rumple the one and you rumple the other. These are indeed wise words and, surely, nowhere more relevant than in the world […] (Read Full Article)
Frank Maloneys “No Baloney”By Curtis McCormick.
“No Baloney”
Most autobiographies emanating from the sport of boxing have been written by fighters. A new book on the marketplace, however, comes from a refreshingly different viewpoint. Frank Maloney, one of the top boxing managers in the world over the last two decades, has penned his life story, entitled ” No Baloney”. This […] (Read Full Article)
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