Kid Chocolate – New York has fallen in love with Kid Chocolate all over again. New York. He came with the heat in the summer of...
Wladimir Klitschko is the premiere heavyweight of this era. With a six-foot six-inch frame that looks like a replica of Bourdelle’s Hercules the Archer and a...
After Rocky Marciano bludgeoned his way to the heavyweight throne in 1952, trainer Charley Goldman reportedly claimed him as his second heavyweight champion. Twelve years earlier,...
Helen Liston and Sonny, 1964. “When I discover who I am, then I’ll be free.” —Ralph Ellison In the summer of 1962, Charles “Sonny” Liston and...
“Most people aren’t aware of it, but Bruce Lee was very into boxing. Scientific boxing.” —Dan Inosanto Game of Death, Bruce Lee’s unfinished masterwork, gave us...
“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.” —Henry David Thoreau “Redcap” Eddie’s blitz began under...
“The San Francisco fog has never been sufficiently glorified. The fogs… come in, not an enveloping blanket but a luminous drift, conferring a magic patina on...
New York, 1959. He wasn’t sure of his name anymore, this tattered figure wandering Times Square. “Heriberto Harwitz” was as close as he could get. He’d...
In the early nineties, I was one of a ragtag band of boxers who trained at the Boston YMCA on Huntington Avenue. Sparring matches were held...
“JUST WATCH MAH SMOKE,”The Secret Journeys Of Cocoa Kid INTRODUCTION Cocoa Kid was only eighteen years old when he signed to meet Connecticut’s Louis Kaplan, a...