Boxing Is . . .

About

Boxing columnist Bart Barry wrote that Thomas Hauser’s annual collections “form an essential part of boxing’s official record and are the chronicles of this era most likely to endure.” Boxing Is . . . continues that tradition, bringing readers into Manny Pacquiao’s dressing room in the moments before last year’s biggest fight, exposing the inner workings of HBO Sports, looking back at the incomparable Sugar Ray Robinson, and much more.

Author

Thomas Hauser is the author of thirty-nine books. His first work, Missing, was made into an Academy Award–winning film. He later authored Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times, the definitive biography of the most famous fighter ever. In 2004, the Boxing Writers Association of America honored Hauser with the Nat Fleischer Award for Career Excellence in Boxing Journalism.

Praise

“Hauser writes about professional boxing in a way that no one has ever done before.”
—Playboy

“Incomparable and indispensable.”
—New York Times

“Many journalists have written fine boxing pieces, but none has written as extensively or as memorably as Hauser. . . . Hauser remains the current champ of boxing literature.”
—Booklist

Contents

Round 1: Fights and Fighters
Sugar Ray Robinson Revisited
February 21, 2009: Top Rank Goes It Alone
Will Rosinsky: A Fighter with Options
Danny Jacobs: “The Golden Child”
Manny Pacquiao: A Fighter for the Ages
A Note on Klitschko-Chagaev
The Lesson of Ortiz-Maidana
Juanma’s Desperate Hour
Yuri Foreman: A Spiritual Journey
Rediscovering Joe Frazier through Dave Wolf’s Eyes
Boxing Gives Thanks for Manny Pacquiao

Round 2: Curiosities
A Fight Fan’s First Fight
Great Moments in Sports
Fistic Nuggets
Jessica Goes to the Fights
Tina Meets Manny

Round 3: Issues and Answers
Memorandum for Ross Greenburg: HBO 2009
The Truth About John Duddy
Fistic Notes
Texas Is Shameless
Notes from the Literary Front
Fighter of the Decade
The New York Times and Boxing
HBO and Boxing: At a Crossroads

Round 4: Non-Combatants
A Diamante in the Rough
Seth Abraham: Then and Now
Ricardo Jimenez
Arthur Curry: His Life and Legacy