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The Catastrophist: The Troubled World of Don Jordan
**** “Chaos” is the only suitable word to describe the career of Don Jordan. Fifty years after he first won the welterweight title, Jordan remains a mystery without a solution. Not only did Jordan…Read More
AMERICAN DREAMER: Davey Moore TKO6 Tadashi Mihara
**** “Get the TV on the pretty things,” Moore says, holding two oversize trophies in the ring, smiling, oblivious, like we all are, to what we cannot know about tomorrow. Read more from The Living…Read More
ENFORCER: The Life & Crimes of Gus Dorazio
**** Gus Dorazio, a fearless but limited contender during the late 1930s and early 1940s, made his name by being pole-axed in two rounds during a championship bid against Joe Louis in 1941. Outside of…Read More
A Crown For Cocoa Kid
**** This piece, on 2012 Hall of Fame inductee Herbert Lewis Hardwick–aka The Cocoa Kid–was written by Springs Toledo and appears here as a special tribute to a fighter long unjustly forgotten.…Read More
PERSPECTIVE
**** “There was no sense quitting when I was winning, and to judge from my past performances I had too much pride or bullheadedness to quit when I was losing. It’s on precisely that kind…Read More
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TCS In Undisputed Fight Magazine
**** I have an article on Jack Dempsey published in the latest issue of Undisputed Fight Magazine. Hard…Read More
DARK MIRROR: When Max Baer Met Ben Foord
**** After fraying American purse strings on an outlandish “comeback” tour against an assortment…Read More
Terrors of the Lightweight Brigade: Ad Wolgast and Battling Nelson
**** In one of the most savage fights of the 20th century, mortal enemies Ad Wolgast and Battling Nelson…Read More
NASTY, BRUTISH, SHORT: AL PALZER & THE WHITE HOPES
On May 26, 1911, the first White Hope tournament, a motley assortment of eleven barnyard scrappers and…Read More
DEMPSEY SPEAKS!
**** “Any time somebody gives you a story of how he felt during a fight take it with a grain of…Read More
Like A Horse Kicking: Aurelio Herrera, the First Latino Superstar in Boxing PART II
**** This is the second of two parts on the tumultuous life and career of Aurelio Herrera, the first…Read More
Like A Horse Kicking: Aurelio Herrera, the First Latino Superstar in Boxing
**** This is the first of two parts on the tumultuous life and career of Aurelio Herrera, the first…Read More
PERSPECTIVE
“They say I spend all my time shooting pool, hanging out in bars, dancing all night, and playing…Read More
A Backward Glance: 1931, The Year in Boxing
A week by week look at the boxing world in 1931 by Andrew Fruman. ***** Max Schmeling Stripped of…Read More
“BAD” BENNIE BRISCOE 1943-2010
“I still think about my career a lot. I miss going into the ring. The big money wasn’t…Read More
PERSPECTIVE
***** “I can understand the reason for my failings. When I was a kid I had nothing but a lot…Read More
PERSPECTIVE
“Whenever my car was parked in front of my cafe, the grownups liked to drop in for a drink or…Read More
PERSPECTIVE
“I don’t really like fighting. When I first started I done it to become fit. Now it’s…Read More
PERSPECTIVE
“So in the tenth round I hit him with one of my right hands, but it was on the ear. Tore his ear…Read More
PERSPECTIVE
“I really don’t enjoy boxing. I don’t like to hurt people or animals. This is a…Read More
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