Adam Berlin
26 articles · Boxing.com
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Boxing?s Writers and One-Note Journalists
By Adam Berlin
Critic! That was Samuel Beckett?s word of disgust. There?s been a lot of criticism about boxing writers on this site. Part of Samuel Beckett?s disdain for critics was that while the artists…
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Book Review: ?Smokestack Lightning? by Springs Toledo
By Adam Berlin
It?s fitting that Springs Toledo starts Smokestack Lighting, his new book about middleweight great Harry Greb, with a chapter titled This Side of Paradise, a verbatim nod to F. Scott Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald?s…
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Mikey Garcia: Low-stakes Spence, High-stakes Loma
By Adam Berlin
When I think of Mikey Garcia, not while I?m watching one of his fights but the sum of him, the image of his confident face, his balanced body, an aura of peace…
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All Cowards
By Adam Berlin
McGregor was crushed by Mayweather, who still prepares the old-school way, including the oldest-school way of all?he puts in his miles? As the hype-beat of a second fight between Mayweather and McGregor…
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The Slur Test: Please Say Good-Bye, Brandon Rios
By Adam Berlin
I?ve always admired Rios? fuck-it attitude toward etiquette. He doesn?t have to be polite. He doesn?t have to be a role model. He just has to fight? On Saturday night longshot-underdog Brandon…
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A Roman Thumbs Down for Conor McGregor
By Adam Berlin
Perhaps veteran referee Robert Byrd, recognizing that the fight in front of him is a ridiculous mismatch, will stop the bout before it gets too dangerous? We?re a day away. With a…
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How a Man Chooses to Lose: What McGregor Should Do
By Adam Berlin
The long view of history for the Mayweather/McGregor match will quickly fade into the footnote it is, an asterisk next to Mayweather?s name? August is here. And the fight event (not the…
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?Fat City? Revisited
By Adam Berlin
Boxing seems a natural fit for the novel. Truths are revealed, sometimes gracefully, as Hemingway might suggest, and sometimes not so gracefully at all? I met Leonard Gardner at a Boxing Writers…
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Book Review: ?Intimate Warfare: The True Story of the Arturo Gatti and Micky Ward Boxing Trilogy?
By Adam Berlin
Like the protagonists in Greek tragedies, Arturo Gatti and Micky Ward looked into each other?s eyes. Then they looked into the abyss? Intimate Warfare by Dennis Taylor and John J. Raspanti chronicles…
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Street Fight
By Adam Berlin
Street fights, for all their sloppiness and ugliness, are more fascinating than professional fights where rules are imposed on the heart of darkness? October has been a slow month for boxing?a few…
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Book Review: Black Ink
By Adam Berlin
Panama Al Brown, boxing?s first Latino champion, looked like poetry. He was a long, lean bantamweight who moved gracefully and punched forcefully? Jose Corpas begins his biography of Panama Al Brown, titled…
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Too True: Errol Spence
By Adam Berlin
Errol Spence is one of those rare, blessed few whose art possesses that indefinable but substantive weight. The Truth?s art is boxing? Errol Spence Jr. isn?t identified by his ring name, not…
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Book Review: ?Max Baer and the Star of David?
By Adam Berlin
Neugeboren the novelist is more interested in what?s below the biographical facts of wins tallied and punches thrown? Jay Neugeboren has written twenty-one books, which in boxing terms makes him a seasoned…
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From New York: Barkley vs. Olajide/Jacobs vs. Quillin
By Adam Berlin
It was a great fight. And the outcome was fitting. Iran Barkley, really from New York, fought like New York? Tonight at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn two New Yorkers are facing…
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Exposed
By Adam Berlin
It wasn?t age. It wasn?t a bad night. It was Wladimir Klitschko being Wladimir Klitschko. That?s who he is. That?s who he?ll always be? For almost ten years Wladimir Klitschko has held…
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Triple B
By Adam Berlin
Golovkin is an ambitious man. He wants to be a cross-over star. He wants to be the next big name in boxing. But ambition can become a tainted word? Antony: ?Yet Brutus…
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Mayweather-Pacquiao: Corporate Greed
By Adam Berlin
Before Saturday night, a deal was made. With that final bell on Saturday night, the deal was completed. If this was the fight of our century, I?m cashing out? What happened last…
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Non-Superlative: This Year?s Ballot for Boxing?s Hall of Fame
By Adam Berlin
Is this year?s crop of potential Hall-of-Fame inductees very good? They are. Are some of them excellent? Probably. Are they worthy of being remembered? Once a year, members of the Boxing Writers…
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Larry ?The Greatest? Holmes
By Adam Berlin
Boxing has a proud lineage that deserves respect and admiration. But history often elevates prowess. And history often blurs clear sight? There?s boxing and then there?s heavyweight boxing. Heavyweights fight differently, often…
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Choosing His Chariot: Hopkins Takes on Kovalev
By Adam Berlin
Separate emotions from violence and you have the essence of what makes a prize fighter a prize fighter. That?s Bernard Hopkins? Even before last Saturday?s fight between Sergey Kovalev and 15-to-1 underdog…