Straight Writes and Jabs: An Inside Look at Another Year in Boxing

Contents

Contents Author’s Note ix Fights and Fighters Sergio Martinez vs. Matthew Macklin: Good Fighters, Good Fight 3 Hopkins-Dawson II:The Champion 10 Pacquiao-Bradley in Perspective 23 Martinez-Chavez: Peaks andValleys 45 Paulie MalignaggiWon’t Go Away 60 Miguel Cotto Grows Old atThirty-Two 69 The End of the Pacquiao Era 72 Archie Moore Revisited 75 Curiosities Lou DiBella on Epix 103 Evander Holyfield on the Night Before Fighting MikeTyson 108 My 86-Year-Old Mother Meets . . .” 110 Boxing Personalities Remember “My Greatest Moment in Another Sport” 113 Fistic Nuggets 120 A Letter from Emanuel Steward 124 Issues and Answers The PED Mess 129 It’s Sixty Seconds Between Rounds, Not Sixty-Seven 154 Bad Judging:A Case Study 158 Klitschko-Chisora: Sucker Slap 161 Chad Dawson’s KO by 164 Fistic Notes 168 Ray Mancini for Real 182 Joe Gans Comes to Life 186 Ray Arcel: Behind the Façade 189 The Rise and Fall of Alexis Arguello 193 The End of College Boxing 197 Literary Notes 200 In Memoriam 212 Remembering Joe Frazier 216 viii THOMAS HAUSER ...