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The Bout

How one Texas boxing match changed history.

Cary Clack Truly*Adventurous Feb 2020 30min Permalink

Crime Sports

Name of the Father

His father was a notorious figure in Providence organized crime. Boxing offered a different path for Jarrod Tillinghast—but it didn’t stop him from slipping into his old ways and robbing drug dealers with his neighborhood friends.

Tim Struby Victory Journal Dec 2017 20min Permalink

Sports

The Woeful Life of Jake LaMotta

A profile of the Raging Bull boxer.

Joe Flaherty Inside Sports Jan 1981 20min Permalink

Sports

The Greatest, At Rest

The planning of Muhammad Ali’s funeral.

Tom Junod ESPN Jun 2017 40min Permalink

Sports

Is Shannon Briggs for real?

Pro boxing, famous for larger-than-life characters, now has one invented or the Instagram age.

Brin-Jonathan Butler The Undefeated Dec 2016 15min Permalink

Politics Sports

Farewell, Champions of Havana

The last vestiges of a sporting powerhouse.

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Brin-Jonathan Butler on the Longform Podcast

Brin-Jonathan Butler Roads and Kingdoms Oct 2016 20min Permalink

Sports

Andre Ward Fights To Avoid A Boxer's Bad Ending

With the biggest bout of his career looming, Andre Ward — who some consider the world’s best boxer — opens up about his family and his faith.

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Brin-Jonathan Butler on the Longform Podcast.

Brin-Jonathan Butler The Undefeated Aug 2016 20min Permalink

Sports

Ali in Havana

When the Champ met Castro.

Gay Talese Esquire Sep 1996 30min Permalink

Sports

Fight

Two men entered the ring for their first professional boxing match. Only one survived.

Dan Barry New York Times Mar 2016 Permalink

Sports

Champion of the Underworld

Bobby Gunn has fought 71 illicit bare-knuckle boxing matches. He’s never lost.

Stayton Bonner Men's Journal Mar 2016 20min Permalink

A Fighter’s Hour of Need

An account of the 60 minutes after a heavyweight fight at Madison Square Garden that left one boxer with permanent brain damage.

Dan Barry New York Times Jan 2016 Permalink

Sports

Welcome to Manny's World

Pacquiao and his entourage.

Pablo Torre ESPN the Magazine May 2015 25min Permalink

Business Crime Sports

The Boxer and the Batterer

An essay on Floyd Mayweather Jr. as both.

Louisa Thomas Grantland Apr 2015 15min Permalink

History Sports

He’s the Last Boxer to Beat Floyd Mayweather Jr., and He So Regrets It

What happend to Serafim Todorov after the 1996 Olympic featherweight semifinals.

Sam Borden New York Times Apr 2015 10min Permalink

Sports

When Muhammad Ali Was a Has-Been

Twelve columns about the boxer’s descent, originally published in the Chicago Daily News and the Chicago Sun-Times.

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Excerpted from Writers’ Fighters and Other Sweet Scientists.

John Schulian Deadspin Mar 2015 55min Permalink

Sports

The Fight: Patterson vs. Liston

“We, the writers—a word I am using in its most primitive sense—arrived in Chicago about 10 days before the baffling, bruising, an unbelievable two minutes and six seconds at Comiskey Park. We will get to all that later.”

James Baldwin Nugget Feb 1963 20min Permalink

Crime Sports

Gold In The Mud

The story of imprisoned boxer James Scott, who contended for the light heavyweight title by staging fights inside Rahway prison.

Brin-Jonathan Butler, Kurt Emhoff SB Nation Mar 2014 40min Permalink

Sports

The Loser

A profile of the boxer Floyd Patterson, after a painful loss to Sonny Liston.

Gay Talese Esquire Mar 1964 35min Permalink

Sports World

Heroes for Sale

A final visit with late boxer Teófilo Stevenson, who could have fought or even been Muhammad Ali had he not stayed in Cuba.

Brin-Jonathan Butler SB Nation Jun 2014 30min Permalink

Sports

'The Fight's Over, Joe'

Joe Frazier vs. Muhammad Ali, 20 years after their final fight.

William Nack Sports Illustrated Sep 1996 25min Permalink

Sports

True to His Words

The story of Rubin “Hurricane” Carter’s exoneration.

William Nack Sports Illustrated Apr 1992 1h10min Permalink

Business Sports

Requiem for a Welterweight

How much time does Manny Pacquiao have left?

Brin-Jonathan Butler SB Nation Nov 2013 25min Permalink

Sports

Brooklyn Brawler

A homegrown boxer sets his sights on the big time.

Brendan O'Connor BKLYNR Nov 2013 15min Permalink

Sports

My Life As a Young Thug

Tyson on his childhood in Brooklyn and the man who changed his life. An excerpt from his upcoming memoir, Undisputed Truth.

Mike Tyson New York Oct 2013 20min Permalink

Sports

The Great Red Hype

On boxer Canelo Alvarez.

Jay Caspian Kang Grantland Sep 2012 Permalink

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