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Book Review: Sorcery At Caesars

Sorcery At Caesars: Sugar Ray's Marvelous Fight Inkwater Press 233pp Boxing, perhaps more than any other sport, is fundamentally dramaturgical, an intersection of conflicting epics. And every fighter becomes, thus,…
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Ali Book: The Soul of a Butterfly

By Tom Donelson The Soul Of A Butterflyis not a book about boxing; it is a book about life. Muhammad Ali reflection on his life co-written with his daughter Hana…
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Boxing is My Sanctuary

by John Howard Maybe we need to add a new name to the list of boxing writers out there today. Ted Sares can flat out write about boxing. Prior to…
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Kindred Spirits

By Scott Wilkerson Sound and Fury: Two Powerful Lives, One Fateful Friendship by Dave Kindred Free Press 368 pp $27 If, in the philosophical economy of knowledge, the truest disclosures…
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Off the Canvas

by  Tom Donelson Tony Petrovic is a boxer, an old boxer. Now 80, what he has left is memories of times gone past and “Off the Canvas” is author Rusty…
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Viewing Boxing From Ringside

By S. L. Compton Ring Sports Magazine, BoxingInsider.com Writer: Viewing Boxing From Ringside (Writers Club Press, 146 pages, paperback, $14.95) is a newly published collection of articles and musings by…
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Cleveland Boxing Greats

The following was submitted by Jim Amato: The great city of Cleveland has a rich boxing history and much of that is captured in Jerry Fitch's book " Cleveland's Greatest…
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Bummy Davis and Murder, Inc.

By Mike Greenhill Book Review ---- Bummy Davis and Murder, Inc.: The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Mafia and an Ill-Fated Prizefighter The history of organized crime in America's…