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Entries tagged with "Norman+Mailer":

• Gonzo Goes to the Fights – July 8th, 2019

  Rolling Stone publisher Jan Wenner called it “the biggest, fucked-up journalistic adventure in the history of journalism...”
  
  

• Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story – February 23rd, 2019

  “Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story” from 2015 documents the rise and fall of former welterweight and middleweight champion Emile Griffith. Born on February 3, 1938, he was the first fighter from the Virgin Islands to become world champion. He turned pro in 1958 and was a natural from the start.…
  
  

• Boxing Fans Unite! Aristotle…Einstein…And You! (Part 4 of 7) – March 26th, 2018

  Here are the next twenty luminaries who go against the grain and unabashedly embrace boxing—America’s most popularly despised sport…
  
  

• Boxing Fans Unite! Aristotle…Einstein…And You! (Part 2 of 7) – February 2nd, 2018

  Why are so many gifted artists, talented entertainers, and brilliant scholars attracted to such a primal-scream sport?
  
  

• A Roman Thumbs Down for Conor McGregor – August 25th, 2017

  Perhaps veteran referee Robert Byrd, recognizing that the fight in front of him is a ridiculous mismatch, will stop the bout before it gets too dangerous…
  
  

• How a Man Chooses to Lose: What McGregor Should Do – August 1st, 2017

  The long view of history for the Mayweather/McGregor match will quickly fade into the footnote it is, an asterisk next to Mayweather’s name…
  
  

• Bufano’s Gym—A Small Factory Where Men’s Muscles Were Made – June 23rd, 2017

  From the 1950s through the 1990s, Bufano’s was a boxing hotbed, a big name in boxing circles. Now, it’s so small it fits only inside my head…
  
  

• Discussing Haye, Hendrix, Hacks, HBO, Herzog and Hitting 30 with Elliot Worsell – January 11th, 2017

  “David hated the boxing business and all who claimed to be a part of it. He had no time for promoters, managers or trainers. He saw himself as different...”
  
  

• Roger Donoghue: Everybody Knew – January 9th, 2016

  Schulberg once asked Donoghue, "Could you have been a champion?" Well, Donoghue answered, "I could have been a contender…"
  
  

• Klitschko / Fury: Skill and Power vs. Zig-Zags and The Almighty – November 23rd, 2015

  Klitschko is a fine architect, calmly deconstructing faces, subtly carving through the resolve of the man opposite…
  
  

• When We Were Kings – April 29th, 2015

  When We Were Kings is the superb documentary by Leon Gast on the Rumble in the Jungle, the 1974 heavyweight championship fight between heavyweight champion George Foreman and the underdog Muhammad Ali in Zaire. The film won an Oscar for Best Documentary in 1997 and feels as fresh today as it did on first…
  
  

• Peek into the Soul of a Boxing Writer—Part One – March 9th, 2015

  I love to read and my interests are catholic to a fault. I prefer that which is literary, whether it qualifies as literature or not…
  
  

• Heavyweight Scholars at War – July 13th, 2014

  Faulkner smirked at Hemingway, said his syntax was infantile though better than anyone else’s save that of the Oxford sage…
  
  

• Tyson Fury: The Great White Hope? – March 25th, 2014

  Something still rankles in trying to rate him as a great fighter. It seems too early. There is an inchoate aura around him…
  
  

• Peek Into the Soul of a Prizefighter—Part Six – February 23rd, 2014

  "I read this book a couple of times and I'm still in doubt about Jesus Christ,” said LaMotta. “But Jesus did a lot of wonderful things…”
  
  

• Mailer and Torn Need to Rehearse – February 16th, 2014

  
  
  

• Norman Mailer vs. Rip Torn – February 15th, 2014

  Mailer even stabbed his second wife, Adele Morales, with a penknife, first in the back and then in the chest, after a drunken party…
  
  

• Boxing’s Five Greatest Moments: 1970-1979 – November 26th, 2013

  It was an ending only Muhammad Ali could have given us and the greatest jewel in the shining crown of the greatest heavyweight of all time...
  
  

• Cus D'Amato Tribute – September 25th, 2013

  Constantine "Cus" D'Amato was one of the last in a long line of old school trainers. Born in the Bronx in 1908, after abandoning dreams of entering the priesthood, he embraced the dream of boxing. A small time operator working out of the Gramercy Gym, Cus knew his stuff and shared that knowledge with…
  
  

• Weigh-In from London: Ali’s Life in Pictures – September 5th, 2012

  If journalists, writers and political figures tapped into Ali’s enormous energy, it was only natural that photographers and artists would do the same...
  
  

• Shumenov: Hard Mind to Hard Rock – May 28th, 2012

  Beibut Shumenov won a major world title, the WBA Light Heavyweight Championship, in only his tenth professional fight…
  
  

• George Bellows' Stag at Sharkey’s – January 16th, 2012

  "I am not interested in the morality of prize fighting. But let me say that the atmosphere around the fighters is a lot more immoral than the fighters themselves…"
  
  

• Emile Griffith: The Natural – January 11th, 2012

  The death of Benny Kid Paret was a great tragedy, not only for those involved but for boxing as well...
  
  

• George Plimpton Awarded the Liebling – January 5th, 2012

  Prima donnas are great in grand opera, but not so grand when it comes to a great sport like boxing…
  
  

• Cotto-Margarito: A New York State of Mind – November 28th, 2011

  Two can play rough. There is nothing simple to these two different warriors. Not a simple life, this boxing...
  
  

• Write on the Money – May 18th, 2011

  “With each punch, the glove did something different, as if the fist and wrist within the glove were also speaking...”