The Bout
How one Texas boxing match changed history.
How one Texas boxing match changed history.
Cary Clack Truly*Adventurous Feb 2020 30min Permalink
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
A profile of the Raging Bull boxer.
Joe Flaherty Inside Sports Jan 1981 20min Permalink
The planning of Muhammad Ali’s funeral.
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
The last vestiges of a sporting powerhouse.
Brin-Jonathan Butler Roads and Kingdoms Oct 2016 20min Permalink
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.
Brin-Jonathan Butler The Undefeated Aug 2016 20min Permalink
When the Champ met Castro.
Gay Talese Esquire Sep 1996 30min Permalink
Two men entered the ring for their first professional boxing match. Only one survived.
Dan Barry New York Times Mar 2016 Permalink
Bobby Gunn has fought 71 illicit bare-knuckle boxing matches. He’s never lost.
Stayton Bonner Men's Journal Mar 2016 20min Permalink
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
Pacquiao and his entourage.
Pablo Torre ESPN the Magazine May 2015 25min Permalink
An essay on Floyd Mayweather Jr. as both.
Louisa Thomas Grantland Apr 2015 15min Permalink
What happend to Serafim Todorov after the 1996 Olympic featherweight semifinals.
Sam Borden New York Times Apr 2015 10min Permalink
Twelve columns about the boxer’s descent, originally published in the Chicago Daily News and the Chicago Sun-Times.
John Schulian Deadspin Mar 2015 55min Permalink
“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
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
A profile of the boxer Floyd Patterson, after a painful loss to Sonny Liston.
Gay Talese Esquire Mar 1964 35min Permalink
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
Joe Frazier vs. Muhammad Ali, 20 years after their final fight.
William Nack Sports Illustrated Sep 1996 25min Permalink
The story of Rubin “Hurricane” Carter’s exoneration.
William Nack Sports Illustrated Apr 1992 1h10min Permalink
How much time does Manny Pacquiao have left?
Brin-Jonathan Butler SB Nation Nov 2013 25min Permalink
A homegrown boxer sets his sights on the big time.
Brendan O'Connor BKLYNR Nov 2013 15min Permalink
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
On boxer Canelo Alvarez.
Jay Caspian Kang Grantland Sep 2012 Permalink