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Entries tagged with "Lou+Ambers":

• Why Old Gold Beats New Glitter – September 20th, 2011

  Keeping the faith in what we have today becomes ever tougher when so many of boxing’s wounds are cynically and greedily self-inflicted...
  
  

• Unforgettable Greatness: Tony Canzoneri – January 19th, 2012

  "Sure it was worth it," said Canzoneri, "every drop of blood and every stitch of it. I wouldn’t have it any other way...”
  
  

• The Journey of the African-American Boxer – February 8th, 2012

  Decades before baseball admitted Jackie Robinson into its lily white ranks, boxing was making strides to give African-American fighters a fair shake. But then as now, racial overtones influenced who fought who. Icons like John L. Sullivan and Jack Dempsey, even Jack Johnson, drew the color line when it came to fighting their black brothers. Part of it was cultural. Part of it was habit. Part of it was fear of losing to the better man...
  
  

• School's In: Fritzie Zivic Will See You Now – May 1st, 2012

  “He was a great teacher," said Billy Conn. "[Fighting Zivic] was like going to college for five years, just boxing him ten rounds..."