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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…
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The Professional – W.C. Heinz

By Scott Wilkerson At a moment when it appears that the entire culture of boxing punditry is clamoring either to defend or to condemn America's last remaining sport, W.C. Heinz's…
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More Tales From Ringside

By Scott Wilerson More Tales From Ringside Tom Donelson and Frank Lotierzo iUniverse 191 pp In his classic novel, Tristram Shandy, Laurence Stern instructs that a man's body and mind…
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Howard Davis Jr.

Status: Former 1976 Olympic gold medalist. Head Boxing Trainer American Top Team. Childhood Heroes: "My first idol was my father (Howard Sr.) Muhammad Ali was definitely an idol. (Ever meet…