Ringside: A Treasury of Boxing Reportage

by Schulberg, Budd

• ISBN13: 9781566637497
• ISBN10: 156663749X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-11-01
• Publisher: Ivan R Dee

Summary

In this bountiful collection of his best boxing stories of the last half-century, Mr. Schulberg takes his fans all the way back to an epic bare-knuckle contest in England two hundred years ago; draws a revealing portrait of Uncle Mike Jacobs, the promotional impresario of boxing in its Golden Age; expertly places Joe Louis and Muhammad Ali in the social history of their times; brings fans up to date in the careers of the great names of recent decades-Tyson, Holyfield, De La Hoya, Hopkins, Chico Corrales; and much more. His writing sparkles with authority and insight. Here is great writing on great fighters, laced with a realistic sense of boxing's wrongs as well as its rights. Publication of Ringside is an event in the world of sports literature.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. xv
Tom Cribb vs. Tom Molineaux: The First International Championship Fight	p. 3
Charles Freeman: The Primo Camera of the Nineteenth Century vs. The Tipton Slasher	p. 17
When Boxing Was a Jewish Sport	p. 28
Good Night, Sweet Princes	p. 33
Confessions of an Ex-Fight Manager	p. 38
Joe Louis and Social History	p. 50
Archie Moore: All-Time Senior Citizen Champ	p. 63
Paynight for Old Archie	p. 63
The Champion of Communications	p. 66
Muhammad Ali	p. 71
King of the World	p. 71
My Very Own Ali Movie	p. 76
Arturo Gatti: The Manly Art of No Defense	p. 86
Oscar De La Hoya: The Two-Hundred-Million-Dollar Man	p. 90
Return to the Mecca	p. 90
The Guessing Game: De La Hoya-Whitaker	p. 93
The Oscar Express Rolls On	p. 96
The Welters are Coming! The Welters are Coming!	p. 103
De La Hoya-Trinidad: A Tale of Two Champions	p. 106
Mosley-de la Hoya: My Hometown	p. 110
Mosley-de la Hoya, Act II	p. 119
The Real Main Event: Arum vs. King	p. 123
Lennox Lewis: The Reluctant Dragon	p. 127
Lewis-Golota: The Bigger they are...	p. 127
The Emperor has no Clothes	p. 132
Lennox Lewis: A Want of Passion	p. 135
Roy Jones, Jr.: The Pensacola Pinwheel	p. 140
Genius at Work	p. 140
Jones vs. Griffin: Pretty Boy Loses Ugly	p. 144
The Mouthpiece Hamlet	p. 147
A for Ability, B for Bored	p. 151
Move Over, Ruby Bob-Here Comes Roy Jones!	p. 154
Evander Holyfield: From the Real Deal to the Sad Deal	p. 160
Holyfield-Bowe: Act III (The Rubber Match)	p. 160
Reenter Evander: A Big Night for Him and Him	p. 163
Evander the Holy! The Once and Future Undisputed King	p. 168
Evander's Homecoming and Going	p. 171
Mike Tyson: From Wonderboy to Has-Been	p. 176
The Softer they Fall	p. 176
Tyson Redux: Act I	p. 180
Requiem for a Heavyweight	p. 184
Lewis Takes Tyson to Finishing School	p. 191
The Little Prince: Good Hit, No Field	p. 197
The Night of the Undisputed	p. 201
The "Heavyweight Championship of the World"-or, Four for the Price of One	p. 207
Ricky Hatton and Kostya Tszyu: The British Are Coming!	p. 213
Requiem for a Middleweight	p. 217
Felix Trinidad	p. 222
Trinidad vs. Mayorga: Brain vs. Brawn	p. 222
Winky Wright vs. Felix Trinidad: The King is Dead! Long Live the King!	p. 226
No. 1 Pound-for-Pound: Pretty Boy Floyd Mayweather, Jr.	p. 231
Weightgate, and on to World War III: Diego Corrales vs. Jose Luis Castillo II	p. 236
Boxing Movies 101	p. 245
Fighters and Writers: At the Boxing Hall of Fame	p. 249
Machiavelli on Eighth Avenue	p. 256
Index	p. 347
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