Pain is Truth: On Boxing and Cruelty
**** It is a sanctuary for all brands of racketeers, a Rota Fortuna powered by an immiscible concoction of money and blood. With his typical acuity, John Schulian christened boxing “the cruelest sport,”…Read More
The Ugly American: One Shot at Glory for Florentino Fernández
**** Among the most feared KO punchers of the 1960s, Fernández, billed as The Ox because of his physical strength and KO power, could turn cinderblocks into dust with his left hook, and a kill-or-be-killed…Read More
The Ugly American: Jesus “Chucho” Castillo and the Dreams of Yesterday
**** I have a regular column, “The Ugly American,” featured in Esquina, a new boxing magazine based out of Mexico City. The column runs in Spanish in the print version of Esquina and in English…Read More
Caminos sin ley: Antonio Margarito.
**** Uno podría parafrasear a Conrad y decir: Toda América participó de su educación. Ciertamente lo hizo Estados Unidos, donde nació, en Torrance, California, y donde se convirtió, primero, en…Read More
THE UGLY AMERICAN: Junior & Maravilla
**** I have a regular column, “The Ugly American” featured in ESQUINA, a new boxing magazine based out of Mexico City. The column runs in Spanish in the print version of ESQUINA and in English…Read More
Introducing Esquina
**** A magazine is born. Is it crazy that in this digital world we are launching a printed magazine…Read More
Introduciendo Esquina Boxeo
**** Nace Esquina Boxeo. ¿No es raro que en el maremágnum digital en el que vivimos nos animemos…Read More








