Broken Dreams: Another Year Inside Boxing

ISBN-13: 9781682261798 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 268 str.

Thomas Hauser

Spis treści

• Fighters and Fights
• Wilder–Fury II in Perspective
• Top Rank on ESPN and What Comes Next
• Jack Dempsey and the Newsboy: Debunking a Myth
• How High Can the Charlos Climb?
• Fight Notes
• Macho Time
• Carlos Monzon: A Fistful of Murder
• Killed in Brazil
• Teofimo Lopez Stakes His Claim to Stardom
• The Tyson–Jones Exhibition
• Joshua–Pulev and the Heavyweight Mix
• Canelo Álvarez, Callum Smith, and DAZN

  Curiosities

• I Didn’t Watch the Super Bowl This Year
• Russ Anber: The Magician
• Fistic Nuggets

  Issues and Answers

• An Email from a Reader
• Politics, Problems, and Power at the New York State Athletic Commission
• Ivan Redkach and the New York State Athletic Commission
• Paulie Malignaggi, Showtime, and the Dialogue on Race
• Boxing Dishonored: The Backstory on Estrada vs. Adkins
• The Ali–Kopechne Letter
• The Best and the Most
• Should Amateur Records Count in Evaluating Greatness?
• Why Doesn’t Boxing Attract More Young Fans?
• Jarrell Miller and Boxing’s PED Problem
• Fistic Notes
• Sporting Blood
• The Night the Referee Hit Back
• Bundini
• Cassius X
• Gordon Parks X Muhammad Ali
• Literary Notes
• Which Active Fighters Deserve to Be Called Great?
• What If Deontay Wilder Had Accepted DAZN’s $100 Million Offer?
• Underground Fight Clubs and the New York State Athletic Commission
• In Memoriam

  Boxing and the Coronavirus

• From 9/11 to COVID-19
• Boxing Grinds to a Halt: The Past, the Present, and the Future
• UFC’s Coronavirus Gambit
• What Will Fans See When Boxing Comes Back?
• More on UFC and the Coronavirus
• Will Boxing Fans Come Back to the Arenas?
• Some Notes on the Coronavirus
• I Miss the Boxing Scene
• Muhammad Ali and the Coronavirus
• Some Notes to End On