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Something To Prove: Ruben Olivares And The Origins Of Boxers

0 comments by on 8/9/2019

This is an edited extract from former TQBR staffer Alex McClintock’s debut book, “On the Chin,” available now on the Kindle Store and other e-book retailers through Text Publishing. A compilation of the grim origin stories of famous boxers would span many leather-bound volumes and remain nowhere near complete, so I’ll content myself with an […]

Throwback Thursday: Lionel Rose Defends Against Chucho Castillo, Chaos Follows

0 comments by on 8/21/2014

Boxing is easily one of the most unforgiving and predatory sports conceivable. Only a very small percentage of fighters over the course of more than a century have been able to wrest ultimate control of their destinies from promoters, managers, advisers and filthier. For the rest, a career guided by a competent entity whose success […]

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