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By Cliff Rold - Sometimes it’s okay to give in.
Anyone who observes boxing long enough is likely to get a little jaded. Fights and fighters come and go. Classics are spaced out by mediocre to good action along the way. Bad judging, bad refereeing, and prima donna behavior keeping major events on slow burn for years can eat away at enthusiasm.
There are still moments when it’s like when we were kids. That burning feeling of anticipation for Joe Louis appearances described in the Autobiography of Malcolm X, exemplified by Frank Sinatra being so desperate to be at Joe Frazier-Muhammad Ali I that he took pictures for Life Magazine, can’t ever really be extinguished.
When boxing gets it right, it does it better than anything else in sports.
Beyond the ring, one arena where boxing has managed to produce and in some ways help to foster love for the game has been on the silver screen. Whether it’s in seedy old black and whites full of fixes and little guys standing up the mob, little Jackie Cooper (and later Ricky Schroeder) screaming that they ‘want the champ,’ or Amy Adams stealing the show on the porch in the Mickey Ward story, boxing’s greater culture has been undoubtedly influenced by its Hollywood projections. [Click Here To Read More]
Anyone who observes boxing long enough is likely to get a little jaded. Fights and fighters come and go. Classics are spaced out by mediocre to good action along the way. Bad judging, bad refereeing, and prima donna behavior keeping major events on slow burn for years can eat away at enthusiasm.
There are still moments when it’s like when we were kids. That burning feeling of anticipation for Joe Louis appearances described in the Autobiography of Malcolm X, exemplified by Frank Sinatra being so desperate to be at Joe Frazier-Muhammad Ali I that he took pictures for Life Magazine, can’t ever really be extinguished.
When boxing gets it right, it does it better than anything else in sports.
Beyond the ring, one arena where boxing has managed to produce and in some ways help to foster love for the game has been on the silver screen. Whether it’s in seedy old black and whites full of fixes and little guys standing up the mob, little Jackie Cooper (and later Ricky Schroeder) screaming that they ‘want the champ,’ or Amy Adams stealing the show on the porch in the Mickey Ward story, boxing’s greater culture has been undoubtedly influenced by its Hollywood projections. [Click Here To Read More]
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