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NEARLY A DECADE IN THE MAKING: THE RETURN OF AMIR “HARDCORE” MANSOUR
WILMINGTON, DELAWARE—On Friday night August 27th, a big night of boxing is planned at the beautiful Dover Downs in Dover, Delaware and the night will be a long time coming for one fighter in particular. It…Read More
MAC FOSTER: 1942-2010
“I got in it for the money, but I saw that there were more things involved. There are two ways to get respectability, the right way and the wrong way, and I’d like to be known for doing…Read More
PERSPECTIVE
“I got home to Cincinnati and the friends who used to hang around all the time played it cool. They dropped in once in a while, but mostly it was to make a touch. The people in the street still…Read More
PERSPECTIVE
“I sold coal. I sold ice. I sold wood. I got fifteen bucks a week in a chicken market cleaning chickens….On the good days I ate. On the bad days I told my stomach to forget it. And…Read More
The Big Nothing! In Search of Another Victim For Vitali Klitschko
(Welcome to another edition of The Big Nothing!, news from the heavyweight wasteland.) Now that David Haye has mysteriously gone mum on the subject of the Klitschko brothers, it looks like Vitali Klitschko…Read More
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PERSPECTIVE
“They said I was a bum. A wild, untamed kid who came swinging out of the Wild West to fight…Read More
PERSPECTIVE
“The blood was all over him and I could see it. But do you know, when you see blood on another’s…Read More
The BIG NOTHING! News on the Heavyweight Wasteland
(This will be the first in a regular series of columns on The Cruelest Sport focusing on the chaotic…Read More
VITALI KLITSCHKO-CHRIS ARREOLA PREVIEW
Exciting Chris Arreola looks to make history when he faces Vitali Klitschko on Saturday night at the Staples…Read More
NO EXIT: The Short Life & Strange Career of Eddie Machen
**** Perhaps he crossed the path of a black cat once too often, or was given to recklessly overturning…Read More
A SECOND LIFE: THE CAREER OF PAT VALENTINO
Pat Valentino, former heavyweight contender of the 1940s, was famous both for his savagery in the ring…Read More
MISUNDERESTIMATED! Eddie Chambers W12 Alexander Dimitrenko
The Tale of the Tape was thrown by the wayside when undersized Eddie Chambers scored a lopsided 12-round…Read More
EDDIE CHAMBERS-ALEXANDER DIMITRENKO PREVIEW
On July 4th, Eddie Chambers and Alexander Dimitrenko face off at the Color Line Arena in Hamburg,…Read More
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