Boxing fans have become used to the sight of women throwing leather in the ring. The sports chronicles though have still been largely kept by men. The exceptional Joyce Carol Oates offered On Boxing ...
NEW ORLEANS — The good, the bad, and the catastrophic would best describe the journey that WBC junior welterweight champion Regis Prograis has endured on his road to finding success in boxing. From ...
The world champion boxer—winner of 29 bouts, collector of 24 knockouts and sufferer of only one defeat, delivered by another elite champion—understands his world. But despite all the baked-in machismo ...
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Like I dare say most people in this business, Marty Corwin, the boxing TV producer who worked for two dons of industry, Don King and “The Bobfather” Bob Arum, for 43 years, didn’t mean to go into ...
Let’s get this straight: Women’s boxing is not a trend. It’s not a footnote or a feel-good novelty. It’s a fight-for-every-inch sport that’s lost its mojo a bit over the past 18 months—and The Promise ...
IN the late 1970s, the world boxing scene had lapsed into a moribund state, with Muhammad Ali close to his final retirement, and interest in the sport on the wane. Then in 1980, as though by magic, ...
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