This week the latest installment in the “Rocky” movie dynasty launches, with “Creed III”. Conspicuous by his absence will be the seminal character Rocky Balboa. Sylvester...
When Roberto Duran waved his hands in resignation and quit in the rematch with Sugar Ray Leonard 42 years ago, it appeared the rivalry with the...
For Scott Murray, the owner/founder of Bar Sport in his hometown of Cannock, Staffordshire in the English Midlands, boxing and the hospitality industry have always gone...
It’s been a little over five years since Miles Teller played the accomplished, combative, and oh so colorful 5-time world champion Vinny Pazienza in the excellent...
Writer David Phillips has made no secret of his admiration for the film-work of Mat Whitecross, who directed “The Kings,” a four-part documentary series running on Showtime....
At first, director Mat Whitecross may seem like a surprising choice for a project like Showtime’s The Kings. Whitecross admits that he is at best a...
What is a king? How does one become a king? These are simple questions that solicit a degree of complex answers that differ from society to...
“This is a poor boy’s sport.” That’s one of the first lines you hear in voiceover from episode three of the Showtime documentary The Kings,...
“It is easier to build strong children than repair broken men.”—Frederick Douglass Episode two of The Kings places a large amount of its focus on...
The Showtime documentary series The Kings, about the grand era of the 80s when the giants of their sport, boxers Sugar Ray Leonard, Marvin Hagler, Thomas...
1976, Part 17 – May 23, Erie, Pennsylvania (County Field House) – ROBERTO DURAN KO 14 LOU BIZZARRO/Don King Productions There he is, on the ring...
NEW YORK – April 12, 2021 – In boxing, it is said that styles make fights. From 1980 through 1989, it was the style of four...
Deaths of legends, of icons, those can hit harder than when people you actually know die. It’s because you have strong associations with those legends, usually...
It was November of 1979, and Boston sports fans were their typically surly selves. The Red Sox last won a World Series in 1918, and this...
I was surprised when I saw my fine editor’s tweet about the latest fighters chosen for induction into the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Among the...
It was November 25, 1980. I was with Bert Sugar, and, more memorably, Christie Brinkley, in New Orleans, Louisiana, for the rematch between Roberto Duran and...
Pete Ranzany was scheduled to fight Jimmy Heair on a Tuesday, in December, 1978, and Heair arrived in Sacramento the Wednesday before. His luggage had been...
“They take the greats from the past and compare us/ I wonder if they'd ever survive in this era?/ In a time where it's recreation to...
It was a bold time. It birthed the iconic, movie star- like presidency of Ronald Reagan– just as we gave the USSR a stiff middle finger...
