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I have been informed that David Remnick has a fantastic knowledge of the subject of boxing.

Can anyone tell me more about David Remnick and his awesome background in the subject of boxing?

Not getting any answers about Remnick's fantastic knowledge of boxing.

Still waiting.

I don't know anything about Remnick, but I would still rate his boxing knowledge on a par with Hauser, Sugar, Merchant, Cosell, Pacheco, and Lampley. How is that for an endorsement? The best thing I have found about boxing books is that I don't have to buy them and the best thing I have found about boxing commentators is that I can't hear them when I turn the volume down.

John Galt wrote:I don't know anything about Remnick, but I would still rate his boxing knowledge on a par with Hauser, Sugar, Merchant, Cosell, Pacheco, and Lampley. How is that for an endorsement? The best thing I have found about boxing books is that I don't have to buy them and the best thing I have found about boxing commentators is that I can't hear them when I turn the volume down.

Put Hauser, Sugar, Merchant, Cosell, Pacheco, and Lampley together and you wouldn't have enough knowledge of what boxing is to fill a thimble.

Still waiting.

Somebody here must know who David Remnick is.

david remnick is the greatest of all times

harrygreb wrote:david remnick is the greatest of all times

He wasn't a boxing expert but he was a great writer and researcher. He also won a Pulitzer Prize.

The man doesn't deserve to be trashed. He compared Patterson, Ali, and Liston as personalities or better as African American personalities in a time of turbulrence and how they were viewed. Liston had the personae of a unrepentant thug. Patterson had the personae of a black accomodationist. Floyd Patterson was a sweet man. That might have been his problem in the ring. That's my observation not Remnick's. And Ali was the black nationalist. Those are of course caricatures and I have neither the time nor inclination to review the entire book.

If pugs wrote about other pugs only pugs would read their book.

It's ironic that Jose Torres was a great boxer and prolific writer. He loved Ali. I'll bet Granberry thinks Torres is a crappy writer.

Here's some of Remnick's work. I would like to be able to write like that:


http://www.members.shaw.ca/kkylee/kid_dynamite.pdf

granberry is under the illusion that you have to be an expert on a subject before you can write well about it. this is nonsense. look at me...i know very little about any subject but i write like an angel (and am very well paid for it).
today i shall write about....boxing!

Writers get short change on this board from certain people who know nothing about writing...

Ezzard wrote:Writers get short change on this board from certain people who know nothing about writing...

You should read Remnick's piece about Holyfield-Tyson ll I cited. It's riveting.

ThatOne wrote:

Ezzard wrote:Writers get short change on this board from certain people who know nothing about writing...

You should read Remnick's piece about Holyfield-Tyson ll I cited. It's riveting.

I thought it was an excellent piece of work.

harrygreb wrote:granberry is under the illusion that you have to be an expert on a subject before you can write well about it. this is nonsense. look at me...i know very little about any subject but i write like an angel (and am very well paid for it).
today i shall write about....boxing!

Excellent post.

TheOne presents clueless 'writers' who know zero about boxing in his desperate attempts to sell his Ali.

Cluless David Remnick, who has ZERO background in boxing,

is one of TheOne's big "sources".

LOL

harrygreb wrote:granberry is under the illusion that you have to be an expert on a subject before you can write well about it. this is nonsense. look at me...i know very little about any subject but i write like an angel (and am very well paid for it).
today i shall write about....boxing!

In a court of law to be an "expert witness" all you must demonstrate is that you have more knowledge of the subject you are testifying about than an average layman. That's a bit of oversimplification for the attorneys on this board.

What , pray tell. does a gentlemen or lady have to prove before he or she is competent to write a book about boxing.

absolutely nothing. (you just gotta convince your editor/publisher)

harrygreb wrote:absolutely nothing. (you just gotta convince your editor/publisher)

You nailed it.

NEXT QUESTION:

What does one have to do to post on a "boxing" website?

LOL

granberry wrote:

harrygreb wrote:absolutely nothing. (you just gotta convince your editor/publisher)

You nailed it.

NEXT QUESTION:

What does one have to do to post on a "boxing" website?

LOL

Ah, a big "LOL" today.

Someone's been at the brandy bottle yet again.

David Remnick is a boxing "expert."

WHY?

granberry wrote:David Remnick is a boxing "expert."

WHY?

Dunno, gran. You started the topic and you keep it going so he must have something about him that gets you all excited.

Care to share it with us?

David Remnick is an'expert' on boxing.

Why?

Search me.

Collins2000 wrote:

granberry wrote:David Remnick is a boxing "expert."

WHY?

Dunno, gran. You started the topic and you keep it going so he must have something about him that gets you all excited.

Care to share it with us?

He is a strange and at times demented guy, those who have had pm,s from him will agree. I dread to think what his reply will be

robert.snell1 wrote:

Collins2000 wrote:

granberry wrote:David Remnick is a boxing "expert."

WHY?

Dunno, gran. You started the topic and you keep it going so he must have something about him that gets you all excited.

Care to share it with us?

He is a strange and at times demented guy, those who have had pm,s from him will agree. I dread to think what his reply will be

I'm sure his reply will follow the standard format we have come to know and love, Robert.

robert.snell1 wrote:

Collins2000 wrote:

granberry wrote:David Remnick is a boxing "expert."

WHY?

Dunno, gran. You started the topic and you keep it going so he must have something about him that gets you all excited.

Care to share it with us?

He is a strange and at times demented guy, those who have had pm,s from him will agree. I dread to think what his reply will be

Robert--should I print some of your hysterical pm's to me?

LOL

You have found your level with collins.