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DON KING EXPOSED – DOCUMENTARY
“Jack Newfield Investigates Boxing Promoter Don King, his criminal past, his success, and his handling of young fighters.”
Journalist / Henry Armstrong
'World's Oldest Boxing Journalist' John Jarrett On The Great Henry Armstrong
“Henry Armstrong might just be the best fighter there ever was. In an era where the ‘GOAT’ moniker is attached to all and sundry, ‘Homicide Hank’ was the real deal. A simultaneous three-weight world champion who boxing writers of the day speculated was made from steel.”
Ex-Manager Reveals All
Mafias Most Wanted Fight Fixer
Patrick Bet-David sits down with pianist and boxing fixer Charles Farrell. In this interview they talked about how he fixed the fights, how he was able to predict the winner of fights, and his connections with the Mafia.
Trainer tells James Tony Story
“Boxing Trainer Tells Interesting Detroit Gym Story about James Toney”
Jessie Robinson spent the days of this youth in the Detroit Boxing scene and give insight to what a Young James "Lights Out" Toney was like
Rocky v Ali Super Fight
The forgotten story of … the Rocky Marciano v Muhammad Ali Super Fight
In 1969 the greatest heavyweights of the 50s and 60s met in a gym to act out the moves of a fight supposedly determined by a computer. Cue ketchup, lawsuits, and a flying toupee.
BRAIN DAMAGE
Boxing is a mess’: the darkness and damage of brain trauma in the ring
“Damage and death have always framed boxing. This harsh truth means that, despite the chaos outside the ring, boxing is shockingly real. It can maim and even kill but, in a strange paradox, boxing also makes most fighters feel more intensely alive than anything else.”
MITCH GREEN
When Mike Tyson Buried Gang Leaders Career
“This story dates back to the year 1986, at the legendary Madison Square Garden arena. A young Iron Mike squared off against the boxer Mitch Green, who was known for being a leader of one of the New York gangs. However, the climax of this tale extended far beyond the boxing ring, leading to a brutal street fight in Harlem.”
Life Of Cus D'Amato
Cus D’Amato – A ‘Legendary Coach Even Amongst Legends’
In 1939, at the age of just 22, Cus and his partner Jack Barrow opened the Empire Sporting Club; the Gramercy boxing gym located at 116 East 14th Street was intended to develop the potential of young fighters. The gym launched the careers of some of the greatest boxing legends of our time.
Beatboxing
Beatboxing: How Hip-Hop Changed The Fight Game – Todd D Snyder
How did the worlds of hip-hop and boxing unite, blending together music, race, sports, and politics? How Hip-Hop Changed the Fight Game.
Freddie Roach's 10 Best Trainers in Boxing History
Freddie Roach and the 10 Best Trainers in Boxing History
“Trainers don’t give up on their boxers, and never let them feel unappreciated and incomplete. Hard work, proper passing of knowledge, dedication, consistency, respect, understanding, attention to detail and authenticity are crucial to a working boxer/trainer relationship.”
F.X. O'TOOLE
“Scribe Of “The Fancy”
F. X. Toole, the pen name of Jerry Boyd, was late to the fight game. He didn’t start training in a boxing gym until he was 46 years old, and while he never fought professionally, he went on to make a living for himself as a trainer and a cut man. Previously he’d worked a myriad of jobs, including a turn as a matador. But like so many others, after he discovered boxing, that became his life, his identity.
Best Boxing Movies Of All Time
The 50 Best Boxing Movies of All Time
Boxing and the cinema have been inseparable from the earliest days of movie-making. The propulsive excitement and fierce elegance of the sport were perfectly suited to the screen, and some of the earliest surviving motion pictures are filmed boxing matches. As the sport grew in popularity throughout the 20th century, so too did the movie genre.
GERVONTA DAVIS L.A TIMES
Gervonta Davis saw things no child should see. Now he’s ‘blessed’ as a champion
Gervonta Davis witnessed drug abuse as a youngster and survived an onslaught of gun violence around his Baltimore neighbourhood that turned hearts dark. Davis was 20 years into that life when he decided to get his neck tattooed, instructing the artist to inscribe a single word over his throat, seven letters that defined him: “Blessed.”
SECRET GYM
How a trainer in California's Coachella Valley built one of the most important boxing gyms in the world
OEL DIAZ Stands on the ring apron while there's chaos all around him. In two rings beside each other, there are two fights going on at the same time. Instructions are yelled in four languages; English, Spanish, Uzbek and Russian. And if all that weren't enough, there's always someone calling his phone.
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