'Damage' Review: The Untold Story of Brain Trauma in Boxing
On Saturday, September 11, Evander Holyfield, who turned 59 in October, was knocked out in the first round by the 44-year old former UFC...
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Gordon Marino
- Sep 3, 2020
- 1 min
‘Bundini’ WSJ Review: The Trickster in His Corner
One of the most popular figures in modern history, Muhammad Ali not only reshaped the self-image of athletes; he helped reshape the...
Gordon Marino
- Mar 5, 2020
- 1 min
‘No Way but to Fight’ Review: Ready to Rumble and Reinvent
It was a half-century ago, but the names still resonate: Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier and George Foreman were the heavyweight-boxing kings...
Gordon Marino
- Jan 10, 2020
- 1 min
‘Why We Fight’ Review: Punch-Drunk Love
Writers have long been stepping into the ring to wrestle a book out of themselves. This one is more than a literary reality show.
Gordon Marino
- May 24, 2019
- 2 min
‘Smokin’ Joe’ WSJ Review: Butterfly Fighter
The 1970s was a golden age in heavyweight boxing, when Muhammad Ali was the king of kings. Despite being despised for his brashness and...
Gordon Marino
- Oct 3, 2018
- 1 min
‘Larry Fink: The Boxing Photographs’ Review: A Ringside View of Humanity
Instead of focusing on boxing’s violence, the longtime chronicler of the sport captures its emotional side.
Gordon Marino
- May 16, 2018
- 1 min
LARB: The Existentialist’s Survival Guide
"Hardly Navel-Gazing"
Gordon Marino
- May 10, 2018
- 1 min
‘The Existentialist’s Survival Guide’ Review: Choose Your Own Adventure
From the WSJ: When it comes to living, there’s no getting out alive. But books can help us survive, so to speak, by passing on what is...
Gordon Marino
- Nov 14, 2013
- 1 min
'Undisputed Truth' by Mike Tyson, WSJ Review
Socrates said that the unexamined life is not worth living. Mike Tyson must agree: Over the past few years, the former heavyweight champ...
Gordon Marino
- Jun 3, 2011
- 1 min
‘At the Fights’ NYT Review: Of Writers and Boxers
Today, championship boxing is lucky to win half a column in the sports pages. There was a time, though, when things were otherwise. In...
Gordon Marino
- Apr 16, 2010
- 1 min
'Tales From the 5th St. Gym' by Fredie Pacheco NYT Review: View From the Corner
Over the years, various gyms have emerged as the Sorbonne of the sweet science. In the 1930s and ’40s, there were Stillman’s and...
Gordon Marino
- Nov 27, 2007
- 1 min
'Something in the Air: American Passion and Defiance in the 1968 Mexico City Olympics' NYT review
The images that make it into our long-term collective memory are few. One that has escaped the maws of oblivion, though, dates from the...
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