Boxing Archives

Gay Talese best selling author insight into a boxer's mind.
http://thestacks.deadspin.com/the-loser-the-most-honest-sports-story-ever-written-772260237
Floyd Patterson on Cassis Clay
http://www.esquire.com/sports/a45515/muhammad-ali-in-defense-of-cassius-clay/

 

Billy Miske
http://www.si.com/vault/1999/12/27/271859/twas-the-fight-before-christmas
Jack Johnson
http://www.si.com/vault/1959/06/22/607143/jack-and-the-game
Joe Louis
http://www.si.com/vault/1990/05/14/106781476/two-champions-and-enemies
http://www.si.com/vault/1966/02/14/608110/charity-yes-mercy-no

 

Wilfred Benitez
http://www.si.com/vault/1976/07/12/615384/papa-benitez-knows-best
Roberto Duran
http://www.si.com/vault/1980/06/16/106775196/from-hard-punches-a-life-of-ease
Julio Cesar Chavez
http://www.si.com/vault/1993/02/22/...vez-fights-to-keep-his-extended-family-secure

 

Lloyd Honeyghan
http://www.si.com/vault/1987/05/04/...-and-unlike-many-another-british-fighter-able
Iran Barkley
http://www.si.com/vault/1988/06/20/...as-hearns-iran-barkley-is-an-underdog-no-more
http://www.si.com/vault/1992/03/30/...hearns-to-win-the-wba-light-heavyweight-crown
http://www.si.com/vault/1993/02/22/...hing-iran-barkley-a-thing-or-two-about-boxing

 

Emanuel Steward
http://www.si.com/vault/1997/09/15/...reated-a-mecca-for-fighters-in-need-of-repair
Antonio Margarito
http://www.si.com/vault/2008/10/06/105740416/anyone-want-to-fight-this-man
Angel Garcia
http://www.si.com/vault/2013/09/09/106367108/a-fathers-faith
Al Haymon
http://www.si.com/vault/2014/12/22/106690278/the-man-with-the-plan

 

Rocky Marciano
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1955/10/08/ahab-and-nemesis
http://www.john-summers.net/marciano.html

 

Thanks dempsey1234 and mcvey for positive feedback from two purists.
Floyd Patterson
http://classic.esquire.com/editors-notes/floyd-patterson-the-anguish-of-a-champion/
http://classic.esquire.com/editors-notes/why-gay-talese-called-floyd-patterson-a-writers-dream/
Article on sad effects of too many punches Sport Illustrated Vault
http://www.si.com/vault/1983/04/11/619344/too-many-punches-too-little-concern
Article on what affects boxing has on brain with Terry Norris used as case study.
http://www.theverge.com/2014/3/26/5447466/fighting-dirty-behind-boxings-brain-damage-crisis

 

10 most stylish fighters GQ
http://www.gq.com/story/most-stylish-fighters-of-all-time

 

Long article on Archie Moore well worth reading with in depth analysis on Mongoose which appeared Nov 1961.
http://thestacks.deadspin.com/how-archie-moore-fought-forever-and-became-boxings-folk-1679521162
Bernard Hopkins
http://deadspin.com/the-end-of-bernard-hopkins-1790395466
What's its like to be journeyman boxer
http://www.fhm.com/posts/paid-to-lose-is-being-a-journeyman-boxer-the-****test-job-in-sport-96120

 

Bernard Hopkins
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/02/...boxings-oldest-and-most-cunning-champion.html
Larry Holmes
http://www.si.com/vault/1982/06/07/628011/a-classic-confrontation
http://www.si.com/vault/1982/06/21/624332/the-class-of-his-class
http://www.si.com/vault/1983/05/30/619385/holmes-really-had-a-spoonful

 

Real coach who inspired the character Cutty from the hit TV series The Wire .
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/02/...e&_r=1&referer=https://t.co/cPNzasIDxK&refere