The Cruelest Sport » MURDER http://thecruelestsport.com A Professional Boxing blog Mon, 20 May 2013 16:35:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 The Catastrophist: The Troubled World of Don Jordan http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/08/15/the-catastrophist-the-troubled-world-of-don-jordan/ http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/08/15/the-catastrophist-the-troubled-world-of-don-jordan/#comments Wed, 15 Aug 2012 21:30:50 +0000 Carlos Acevedo http://dev.mvn.com/thecruelestsport/2009/07/05/the-catastrophist-the-troubled-world-of-don-jordan.html "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 bewilder spectators with his desultory performances, he also mystified trainers, sports writers, police officers, mobsters, and historians, few of whom have bothered to trace a career that reads more like a case study than the narrative of a boxer. Welterweight champion only long enough to make two defenses and accidentally TKO nefarious Frankie Carbo, Jordan left behind a legacy as befuddling as that of Iron Eyes Cody or D.B. Cooper. Like many fighters in the 1950s, Jordan was dogged by ties to mobsters, but it was his own instability that ultimately led to his spectacular crash.

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]]> http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/08/15/the-catastrophist-the-troubled-world-of-don-jordan/feed/ 4 ENFORCER: The Life & Crimes of Gus Dorazio http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/07/02/enforcer-the-life-crimes-of-gus-dorazio/ http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/07/02/enforcer-the-life-crimes-of-gus-dorazio/#comments Mon, 02 Jul 2012 23:19:57 +0000 Carlos Acevedo http://dev.mvn.com/thecruelestsport/2009/08/19/enforcer-the-life-crimes-of-gus-dorazio.html **** 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 the ring, Dorazio was notorious for his scrapes with the law. On the fringes of the underworld for most of [...]

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]]> http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/07/02/enforcer-the-life-crimes-of-gus-dorazio/feed/ 12 TCS 2010 Story of the Year: The Disinherited: Edwin Valero 1981-2010 http://thecruelestsport.com/2010/12/31/tcs-2010-story-of-the-year-the-disinherited-edwin-valero-1981-2010/ http://thecruelestsport.com/2010/12/31/tcs-2010-story-of-the-year-the-disinherited-edwin-valero-1981-2010/#comments Fri, 31 Dec 2010 15:14:29 +0000 Carlos Acevedo http://thecruelestsport.com/?p=2172 1. “Beneath it all, desire of oblivion runs.” Philip Larkin 2. In the ring, Edwin Valero was riveting, and the strange quality that defined his style–an uncommon cruelty–was couched strictly in boxing terms throughout his career. Now we can say it, though we may not want to believe it: Yes, his bloodlust appeared to be [...]

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