On Saturday, June 20, a jubilant crowd assembled at Nimisilla Park in Canton, Ohio, for an afternoon of free, open-air amateur boxing. The show was a featured part of Canton’s Juneteenth festival, a family-friendly event that also included barbecue, bounce houses, a bike giveaway, deejayed music, and a live drum corps performance. “Honestly, I didn’t […]
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The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts belong to that category of pop culture ephemera that manages to embody all the excesses of its immediate cultural moment and yet survives the passage of time and taste to find itself a second life as a time capsule, repackaged as “vintage” or “retro.” This particular relic of the weird,
“I was born dead, with a black eye,” the story begins. “But even that early, I must have been too stubborn to quit.” That’s the opening line of the autobiography Toy Bulldog: The Fighting Life and Times of Mickey Walker. If you’re a sucker for a good opening line – like I am – well,
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Imagine being taught how to throw the perfect left hook to the body by “Irish” Micky Ward. For many boxing fans, this would be a dream come true. For members of Box2Burn in Westford, MA, that’s a regular Monday evening. Box2Burn is the brainchild of gym owner Sean Eklund, nephew of Micky Ward, who has
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The city of Brockton, Massachusetts, calls itself the “City of Champions.” It is true few cities can compete with Brockton when it comes to producing fistic greatness. Brockton was the home of Rocky Marciano, known affectionately as the “Brockton Blockbuster.” Marciano dominated the heavyweight division of his day and became known for his bullish ring
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O the joy of the strong-brawn’d fighter, towering in the arena in perfect condition, conscious of power, thirsting to meet his opponent”-Walt Whitman In April 1986, two men entered a ring in Uniondale, NY. A grudge had been simmering for a year, and these two men, clad in robes and wearing boxing gloves, were ready
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