Putting the Brutality of a Prize Fight on the Met Opera Stage
Terence Blanchard’s “Champion,” about the fighter Emile Griffith, is the rare opera to engage with sports. A boxing consultant helped keep it gritty.
Source: nytimes.com
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Floyd Patterson vs Ingemar Johansson: An Unlikely Trilogy
Steve Hunt tells the story of the great Patterson-Johansson rivalry
Source: boxingnewsonline.net
'I dreamed I had died in that fight.' The nightmarish heat that engulfed Sugar Ray Robinson
It’s almost 70 years since Sugar Ray Robinson succumbed to Joey Maxim and the elements in New York City, writes Steve Bunce
Source: boxingnewsonline.net
What We Really Lose When Highways Destroy Historic Neighborhoods
A few old news reports about Deep Ellum in the late 1960s unintentionally document the huge costs of highway-driven demolition.
Source: dmagazine.com
Sugar Ray Robinson: There will never be another
He is Walker Smith, who boxed under the ring name of Sugar Ray Robinson and lit up the Forties and Fifties with a dazzling array of skill, power, good looks and, when he had to, tremendous courage. Claude Abrams pays homage to him... the greatest fighter of all-time
Source: boxingnewsonline.net
Alternate histories: The moments that changed boxing, and how they could have been different
Jack Hirsch examines the consequences and what ifs of some huge pivotal moments in boxing history
Source: boxingnewsonline.net