Boxing Fiction

[Marchegiano]

Is that a boxing flavored episode from ol' Rod?

Yes'sir it is.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734632/

[QueensburyRules]

Yes, I can imagine your big dust broom gliding ceaselessly and silently across the floor of the college library.

- - Well, here we have proof of U holier than thou dismissal of our critical workers, the janitors without whom would have the world be an infinitely smellier, messier place.

[Marchegiano]

Barring video games. Little Mac, Afro Thunder, that sort, and easy stuff like Balboa, I did think of a few more.



When I was doing my research into ancient boxing I relied heavily on books. Because, get real, I don't get access to papyrus myself. So you kind of require guys with credential enough to get into museums and analyze things they have that are not on display to make any connections. Boxing isn't exactly a major piece for museums but they do house historical docs and such.


I bought The Olympian: A Tale of Ancient Hellas, you know, amongst others

And then found out it's a fiction!







****er, well known, but still cool.






Most excellent but not for soft skinned white folk. Trevor/Jack gonna take some jabs at whitey. This one is definitely a fiction but it is based in reality, which is neat.


Hajime no Ippo - Anime about boxing, all fiction.


Great White Hype - Parody movie, it's pretty good.




Behold! Lord Apollo ends the tyranny of Phorbas, king of the dead. ( Serial killer who attacks Apollo's worshippers of the road to Delphi) Mytho-birth of boxing.

The Greeks thought long dongs were ugly and not good for sexytime. Apollo is hung like a babe because that was what was a good looking peepee back then.

His wraps are gold and when he punches the air bursts into flames and rays of sunlight.


<--- Sometimes thinks of penning a fiction set in the time right after Rome fell, during strong catholic control of Italy, where Apollo looks to define himself in a world where he is defined as Satan. The lead would just be some Italian boy from say the 1300s trying to do good by his fam and church while being told the ancient ways are evil and witnessing the evil done by christians. The struggle with cognitive dissonance a situation like that would cause, and salvation for both the lead and Apollo through acts that define the church, not god or christians, as evil. Apollo accepts he is just an aspect of Satan but doesn't care and aids the young hero in fighting demons and the like to free his people from corrupted priests even though is causes Apollo to cease to exist. Like Dante's Inferno or Orpheus, but, different and more Pagan-y.



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Cecil the Stone Age Scrapper


That's all I can think of for now.

[Rockin'1]

I had found this book, years ago, called A Treasury of Boxing Stories. Tons of short stories that were good including a longer story (but a shorter version?) of a famous type story from back before my time. I think that the story was called The Harder They Fall. Great book full of boxing fiction!

[DeeMoney]

I remember reading Robert Lipsyte's, "The Contender" when I was in middle school and enjoying it. But that was decades ago, and I don't know how it holds up through the lens of an adult's eyes.

[billeau2]

The movie REquiem for a heavyweight... Great film.

Oscar Wilde wrote a story about an idiot Savant who ws a violin Virtuosa and boxing prize fighter elite... But he has to choose because his hands will not whether boxing if he hopes to play the violin. I forgot the name of the story.

[The Old LefHook]

I had found this book, years ago, called A Treasury of Boxing Stories. Tons of short stories that were good including a longer story (but a shorter version?) of a famous type story from back before my time. I think that the story was called The Harder They Fall. Great book full of boxing fiction!

I found the book, but of course they want money for it. I have never made a single purchase off the internet, and never will. No way for them to get me.

[Rockin'1]

I found the book, but of course they want money for it. I have never made a single purchase off the internet, and never will. No way for them to get me.

It'd be worth the risk to me having read it. I mean if they ship you the wrong thing or it's in horrendous condition than just send it back.

But if you read it too you would agree that it's worth the risk, as a boxing fan...............Rockin'

[The Old LefHook]

I forgot where I was.

[QueensburyRules]

- - It was a dark and sultry summer Miami night lit up by enough electricity to power a 3rd world Banana Republic for a month.

I entered the ring to mixed cheers and jeers for a quick shadowboxing flurry underneath my traditional Bath Robe to await King Roy's entrance in a bedazzling blue and black sequined robe to flash about the ring to thunderous cheers. He was Ring #1 P4P that no fighter could solve, but I never intended to box with a boxer.

No sir, this a Red Meat affair for me, all or nothing, so the bell rings as we come out when the screaming starts.

"The Gonzolo Gang is storming the front entrance" as automatic scattered ******* starts breaking out. Roy and I looked at each other in telepathic agreement. In a nanosecond, the auditorium was completely empty leaving us as sole targets in the middle of the Ring.

"Roy, I know an exit to the back we can make if we're quick," and so I sprint up the stadium stairs with Roy behind me. The door is an industrial steel clad weighing 200 lbs poorly fitted, but I finally manage to jerk it open for Roy to dart in as I follow, but the gang sees us to saturate the space with their assault rifles, but too late as we escape to the back entrance.

That was enough drama to awaken me from my heavy dream state, a short and sweet real account of my dream fight with Roy.