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Hank Schwartz is the most famous boxing promoter you’ve never heard of. He and his vice-president, Don King, were the promoters of what is still considered the most famous fight in boxing history – the Muhammad Ali-George Foreman “Rumble in the Jungle” fought in Zaire in 1974. His hilarious thrill-a-minute memoir From the Corners of the Ring To the Corners of the Earth: The Adventure Behind the Champions (CIVCOM 2010) KO’ed [...]
“No Good Fight Goes Unwritten”
I met Mike a few days ago on Twitter, and we got to talking. I want to start out by saying his blog is really something special and we’re lucky to have him here.
His blog is being fed into our new Boxing Forum…and keep an eye there, some special things happening [...]
Almost 20 years ago, I found myself walking north up Broad street in Philadelphia.
I was new to the city and still trying to learn my way around.
The side of the street I was on decided it didn’t want a sidewalk part of it anymore, so I jaywalked in a diagonal pattern across Broad street to [...]