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MARVIN HART VS. JACK ROOT (part 2)

By Guy Louis Rocha and Eric N. Moody The Heavyweight Championship Fight That Time Forgot The main problem confronting Egan and Livingston was how to get the rest of the…
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Hart vs Root: Judgment Day (part 3)

By Guy Louis Rocha and Eric N. Moody Judgment day, July 3, arrived like a blast from a steel furnace. The heavyweight contest, established as the main attraction during a…
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Marvis Frazier – The Lost Son

By Jim Ammatto The camera rolls and the highlight clip begins. It shows a young, undefeated but green Marvis Frazier dancing while taunting heavyweight champion Larry Holmes. In the blink…
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The Legacy of Greg Page

By Patricia Page (Wife of Greg Page) How will Greg Page be remembered? Raw natural Heavyweight Champ OR one of those boxers who didn't know when to quit?? Greg Page…
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Do You Remember: Jerry Quarry

By Jim Amato Mike Tyson was the self proclaimed "Baddest Man On The Planet." Even after his decisive loss to Buster Douglas in 1990 and three year exile to prison…
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Tyson’s Place in boxing history

by Tom Donelson How does one place Mike Tyson in perspective as a fighter? There are fighters that most pundits agree on their greatness. Ali and Louis are unanimously considered…
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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…
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Cut Time: An Education at the Fights

By Scott Wilkerson Cut Time: An Education at the Fights Carlo Rotella Houghton Mifflin $24 222 pp In her masterful study, On Boxing, Joyce Carol Oates observes: "One of the…