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/
Great read from Floyd, I liked what I saw from him in the first round and beginning of the second against Ali. He wasn't going to win but he looked to have the tools and speed to make it interesting all the way, what a shame.
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
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