A hurting sport : an inside look at another year in boxing

211 Pages·2015·0.682 MB·English

by  Hauser, Thomas

A Hurting Sport
Books By Thomas hauser
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Missing
The Trial of Patrolman Thomas Shea
For Our Children (with Frank Macchiarola)
The Family Legal Companion
Final Warning: The Legacy of Chernobyl (with Dr. Robert Gale)
Arnold Palmer: A Personal Journey
Confronting America’s Moral Crisis (with Frank Macchiarola)
Healing: A Journal of Tolerance and Understanding
With This Ring (with Frank Macchiarola)
Thomas Hauser on Sports
Reflections
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The Black Lights: Inside the World of Professional Boxing
Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times
Muhammad Ali: Memories
Muhammad Ali: In Perspective
Muhammad Ali & Company
A Beautiful Sickness
A Year At The Fights
Brutal Artistry
The View From Ringside
Chaos, Corruption, Courage, and Glory
The Lost Legacy of Muhammad Ali
I Don’t Believe It, But It’s True
Knockout (with Vikki LaMotta)
The Greatest Sport of All
The Boxing Scene
An Unforgiving Sport
Boxing Is . . .
Box: The Face of Boxing
The Legend of Muhammad Ali (with Bart Barry)
Winks and Daggers
And the New . . .
Straight Writes and Jabs
Thomas Hauser on Boxing
A Hurting Sport
FicTion
Ashworth & Palmer
Agatha’s Friends
The Beethoven Conspiracy
Hanneman’s War
The Fantasy
Dear Hannah
The Hawthorne Group
Mark Twain Remembers
Finding The Princess
Waiting For Carver Boyd
The Final Recollections of Charles Dickens
The Baker’s Tale
For children
Martin Bear & Friends
A Hurting Sport
An Inside Look at Another Year in Boxing
Thomas Hauser
The University of Arkansas Press
Fayetteville
2015
Copyright © 2015 by Thomas Hauser
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ISBN: 978-1-55728-683-3
e-ISBN: 978-1-61075-572-6
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2015938419
For Peter Nelson and Ray Stallone

Contents
Fighters and Fights
Behind the Scenes at Pacquiao-Bradley 2 3
Sergio Martinez vs. Miguel Cotto 16
Chris Algieri: An Unlikely Champion 24
Boyd Melson: An Atypical Fighter 29
GGG = WOW 35
New York Notes 39
Jermain Taylor’s “Comeback” 47
Hopkins-Kovalev: A Legacy Fight 51
A Look Back at Hopkins-Kovalev 56
Larry Holmes at Ecco 64
Non-Combatants
Remembering Paul Hoggatt 69
Don Turner: Opinions and Memories 76
John Duddy: Actor 79
Curiosities
“I’m Going Down” 85
David Diamante at Pamplona 89
Tina and Manny Redux 92
HBO’s “Delta Force” 95
Fistic Nuggets 98
Issues and Answers
Floyd Mayweather, Donald Sterling, and TMZ 111
What Is Al Haymon Planning? 116
Instant Video Review and Boxing 126
Fistic Notes 131
The SCP Summer Premier Auction 149
Mayweather and Pacquiao vs. the Modern 135-Pound Greats 153
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100 Days: The New York Times and Boxing 158
Floyd Mayweather and Ray Rice 166
Literary Notes 171
In Memoriam 182
Floyd Mayweather, Showtime, and the Nevada State Athletic
Commission 196
Author’s Note
A Hurting Sport contains the articles about professional boxing that I
authored in 2014. The articles I wrote about the sweet science prior to
that date have been published in Muhammad Ali & Company; A Beautiful
Sickness; A Year at the Fights; The View From Ringside; Chaos, Corruption,
Courage, and Glory; The Lost Legacy of Muhammad Ali; I Don’t Believe It, But
It’s True; The Greatest Sport of All, The Boxing Scene, An Unforgiving Sport;
Boxing Is; Winks and Daggers; And the New; Straight Writes and Jabs; and
Thomas Hauser on Boxing.