Mike Ricciardelli
“BOX: The Face of Boxing” by Holger Keifel with Thomas Hauser
Photographer Holger Keiffel has chronicled the living face of boxing in lush black and white portraits which glare off the page, offering a stark...
A League is Born
In what may be the most ambitious move in boxing since an Attorney General told Frankie Carbo that the sport would be better off...
Floyd Mayweather, Charlie Goldman and a Ring Education
We are, in a sense, in between bouts at the moment and I find myself thinking about Charlie Goldman and the rantings of Floyd...
Margarito, Capetillo and the Not So Long Arm of the Law
With all due apologies to T.S. Eliot and Carlos Acevedo, boxing is the cruelest art. But it is also, strictly speaking, a series of...
Billy Conn, Chad Dawson and that Other Part of Valor
It may be unfair to mention Billy Conn and Chad Dawson in the same sentence. But I just read Frank Deford’s masterful rendering of...
Sadam “World Kid” Ali, Next Champion of the World?
The first time I heard the name Sadam Ali it was in fear. And a sort of wide-eyed resignation. I was walking into...
Michael Grant, Stand In, Vs. Tomasz Adamek at Newark’s Prudential Center
A one-time Next Big Thing in professional boxing, Michael Grant has been to the top of the hill, but only to look. His stay...
