Bert Sugar on Boxing The Best Of The Sport's

A colorful tour of the excitement, agony, and thrills of the fight game, from its greatest raconteur.

One of the most recognizable personalities in boxing, BERT RANDOLPH SUGAR is also regarded as one of the sport's outstanding writers and historians. And for good reason: a colorful and irrepressible personality, Sugar and his trademark fedora and cigar is a guaranteed ringside presence. He has served as the editor of The Ring, Boxing Illustrated, and Fight Game magazines, and is the author of over 50 books. Sugar on Boxing brings out his best. Entertaining, insightful, and eminently colorful, it's the next best thing to being at the fights.

Introduction	p. v
Rants and Raves
Statement before the Senate Subcommittee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation	p. 3
After One Hundred Years, Boxing's Critics Continue to Sharpen Old Saws	p. 7
I'd Rather Poke My Eye Out With A Sharp Stick Than Watch Women's Boxing!	p. 11
I Didn't Know Writing Was a Contact Sport	p. 15
Boxers Need a Defense Against the A.M.A.'s Blows	p. 17
On Howard Cosell	p. 23
Boxing: Where Something's Going on All the Time ... Most of It Unsolved	p. 27
Lewis-Tyson: Hell No, I Won't Go	p. 31
Put Boxing's So-Called "Officials" in Charge of the Sahara and It Would Soon Run out of Sand	p. 35
When You're at an Age Where You Go to a Topless Bar and Look at the Menu, then Big George's Win was More than Food for Thought	p. 39
What Gives with All These Comebacks? Enough Already	p. 43
The Fighters
America Finds a Hero: John L. Sullivan	p. 49
Jack Johnson: Black Champion and White Hopes	p. 69
Jack Dempsey--and Boxing's Golden Age	p. 95
The Reign of Joe Louis, the Brown Bomber	p. 105
Tommy Hearns: A Four-Time Champion Stands Foursquare in History	p. 129
Oscar De La Hoya: Bringing Back the Glory of the Welterweights	p. 133
Roy Jones Jr. vs. the Light Heavyweight Greats: Who would Have Won	p. 137
By Unanimous Decision, Prince Naz is the Best Boxer Today, Sound-for-Sound	p. 145
Lennox Lewis: Britain's First Vertical Champion	p. 149
The Fights
Jack Dempsey vs. Louis Firpo, September 14, 1923	p. 155
Rocky Graziano vs. Tony Zale, 1946, '47, and '48	p. 163
Rocky Marciano vs. Jersey Joe Walcott, September 23, 1952	p. 167
Carmen Basilio vs. Sugar Ray Robinson, September 23, 1957	p. 171
Archie Moore vs. Yvon Durelle, December 10, 1958	p. 177
Cassius Clay vs. Sonny Liston, February 25, 1964	p. 185
Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier, March 8, 1971	p. 199
George Foreman vs. Joe Frazier, January 22, 1973	p. 209
Aaron Pryor vs. Alexis Arguello, November 12, 1982	p. 211
Roberto Duran vs. Sugar Ray Leonard I, June 20, 1980	p. 217
Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Roberto Duran II, November 25, 1980	p. 223
Larry Holmes vs. Muhammad Ali, October 2, 1980	p. 233
Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Thomas Hearns, September 16, 1981	p. 237
Mike Tyson vs. Evander Holyfield, June 28, 1997	p. 245
History
The Way Out	p. 253
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