Carlos Acevedo's Grim Portraits of Tommy Morrison & Other Boxers

[thenonpareil]

"For the writer living by his or her wits, identification with the lonely and misunderstood passion of the boxer seems almost inevitable. A long tradition of ambitious boxing journalism, anchored by A. J. Liebling’s The Sweet Science, Norman Mailer’s The Fight, and Donald McRae’s Dark Trade, pushes past the purse wrangles and the disputed decisions to the deeper problems of why some men choose to fight for a living and the forces inside and outside the game that thwart their quixotic dreams. The violence of the ring expresses something elemental in our natures, something that needs intellectual courage and the right language to understand."

https://www.city-journal.org/carlos-ace ... her-boxers

[Caractacus]

is that photo from just after the fight with Lennox Lewis ?
Because I don't remember Morrison ever get busted up like that.

[margaret thatcher]

tommy's son kenzie/james ko'd hasim rahman's son the other night, billed as first fight between sons of former champs

[wrighty]

I'm reading this book now. He's negative about a lot of the fighters including Lennox and Foreman in spots. Morrison didn't have a great resume but he did have some ex champions and fighters who could look after themselves on there. He had an opportunity to write something quite special i thought. He could have interviewed people who knew Morrison, people who were around him when he was a boxer, and when he was on his descent. This reads more like a polemic.

[Caractacus]

I seem to remember in the post-fight interview of the Lewis fight, Tommy Morrison saying that it was the first time he was ever cut
in a boxing match, he never got cut before.