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.
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Terence Blanchard’s “Champion,” about the fighter Emile Griffith, is the rare opera to engage with sports. A boxing consultant helped keep it gritty.
Steve Hunt tells the story of the great Patterson-Johansson rivalry
It’s almost 70 years since Sugar Ray Robinson succumbed to Joey Maxim and the elements in New York City, writes Steve Bunce
A few old news reports about Deep Ellum in the late 1960s unintentionally document the huge costs of highway-driven demolition.
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