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The greatest boxing writer of the day?

Posted: 19 Oct 2005, 05:16
by MightyWarrior
.......Pat Putnam, in case you're wondering. Ocasionaly writes over at the very good sweetscience.com ( David Payne writes there too ).
He's very much in the old school style ( Liebling, Red Smith, Cannon ) and an obvious influence on Mike Katz.

This guy is the real McCoy.

He's been around forever, and his writing is world class, and puts you right there.
Check his articles here, print them out for the train ride home. The recent "Willie Pastrano and the Witch" is terrific :TU:


http://www.thesweetscience.com/boxing-a ... ?author=42

Posted: 19 Oct 2005, 17:38
by Collins2000
Cheers. I just read some of his articles. Good stuff.

Re: The greatest boxing writer of the day?

Posted: 19 Oct 2005, 18:44
by Axe
MightyWarrior wrote:.......Pat Putnam, in case you're wondering. Ocasionaly writes over at the very good sweetscience.com ( David Payne writes there too ).
He's very much in the old school style ( Liebling, Red Smith, Cannon ) and an obvious influence on Mike Katz.

This guy is the real McCoy.

He's been around forever, and his writing is world class, and puts you right there.
Check his articles here, print them out for the train ride home. The recent "Willie Pastrano and the Witch" is terrific :TU:


http://www.thesweetscience.com/boxing-a ... ?author=42
Thanks for the info :TU:

Posted: 21 Oct 2005, 05:14
by DavidPayne
Putnam is amazing. You write stuff and you think, yes I'm proud of that, thats pretty good and then you read Pat's stuff and you just throw the laptop across the room.

He's on an entire different level to virtually everyone else.

Posted: 21 Oct 2005, 06:04
by neil r
Theres no boxing writer even comes close to Hugh McIlvanney

Posted: 21 Oct 2005, 06:07
by DavidPayne
Neil,

Putnam does.

But Hugh Mc is obviously a member of an elite level too.

DP

Posted: 21 Oct 2005, 06:25
by neil r
Nah. Theres McIlvanney... then theres the rest.