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- A Hurting Sport: An Inside Look at Another Year in Boxing
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: University of Arkansas Press
summary
A Hurting Sport marks the tenth annual volume of Thomas Hauser’s boxing articles to be published by the University of Arkansas Press. Every year, readers, sportswriters, and critics alike look forward to these collections. In 2014, Booklist observed, “This annual series detailing the year in boxing should be a highlight, not only for fans of the sport but also for those who appreciate journalistic acumen and stylish prose.”
Other sportswriters have called Hauser “the dean of fightwriters” (TheSweetScience.com) and “our craft’s most celebrated practitioner” (15Rounds.com). His readers call him one of the last real champions in boxing and one of the very best who has ever written about this sport.
A Hurting Sport continues this tradition of excellence with a behind-the-scenes recounting of 2014’s biggest fights, a look at Floyd Mayweather’s conduct in and out of the ring, analysis of fight impresario Al Haymon’s burgeoning empire, and much more.
Other sportswriters have called Hauser “the dean of fightwriters” (TheSweetScience.com) and “our craft’s most celebrated practitioner” (15Rounds.com). His readers call him one of the last real champions in boxing and one of the very best who has ever written about this sport.
A Hurting Sport continues this tradition of excellence with a behind-the-scenes recounting of 2014’s biggest fights, a look at Floyd Mayweather’s conduct in and out of the ring, analysis of fight impresario Al Haymon’s burgeoning empire, and much more.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. i-vi
- Author’s Note
- pp. ix-x
- Fighters and Fights
- Sergio Martinez vs. Miguel Cotto
- pp. 16-23
- Chris Algieri: An Unlikely Champion
- pp. 24-28
- Boyd Melson: An Atypical Fighter
- pp. 29-34
- New York Notes
- pp. 39-46
- Jermain Taylor’s “Comeback”
- pp. 47-50
- Hopkins-Kovalev: A Legacy Fight
- pp. 51-55
- A Look Back At Hopkins-Kovalev
- pp. 56-63
- Larry Holmes at Ecco
- pp. 64-66
- Non-Combatants
- Remembering Paul Hoggatt
- pp. 69-75
- Don Turner: Opinions and Memories
- pp. 76-78
- John Duddy: Actor
- pp. 79-82
- Curiosities
- “I’m Going Down”
- pp. 84-88
- David Diamante at Pamplona
- pp. 89-91
- Tina and Manny Redux
- pp. 92-94
- HBO’s “Delta Force”
- pp. 95-97
- Fistic Nuggets
- pp. 98-108
- Issues and Answers
- Floyd Mayweather, Donald Sterling, and TMZ
- pp. 111-115
- What Is Al Haymon Planning?
- pp. 116-125
- Instant Video Review and Boxing
- pp. 126-130
- Fistic Notes
- pp. 131-148
- The SCP Summer Premier Auction
- pp. 149-152
- 100 Days: The New York Times and Boxing
- pp. 158-165
- Floyd Mayweather and Ray Rice
- pp. 166-170
- Literary Notes
- pp. 171-181
- In Memoriam
- pp. 182-195
Additional Information
ISBN
9781610755726
Related ISBN(s)
9781557286833
MARC Record
OCLC
916446417
Pages
209
Launched on MUSE
2015-08-28
Language
English
Open Access
No