Peter Wood
43 articles · Boxing.com
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The Shocking Truth About Malcolm ?Flash? Gordon
By Peter Wood
Eliot Scher, an avid train enthusiast, is the proud owner of an impressive model train collection. His basement is a treasure trove of Pullmans, sleepers, locomotives, trestles, and train yards. Chugging trains…
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Why Did I Fight?
By Peter Wood
I was, by nature, a gentle kid?just like my real father, a genteel songwriter. But I had a real good punch, quick reflexes, a granite chin, and a screwy mind? Why did…
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Boxing Fans Unite! Aristotle?Einstein?And You! (Part 7 of 7)
By Peter Wood
Yes?there is something about boxing that captures the essence of being human. Boxing is brutal?graceful?painful?magnificent?terrible?triumphant? ?There?s a primal aspect to boxing that I think is hard to deny,? says author Willy Vlautin.…
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Boxing Fans Unite! Aristotle?Einstein?And You! (Part 6 of 7)
By Peter Wood
President Reagan appropriated Jack Dempsey?s iconic phrase when he spoke to his wife as he was lying in a hospital bed: ?Honey, I forgot to duck?? Boxing is ugly, stupid, and violent?but…
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Boxing Fans Unite! Aristotle?Einstein?And You! (Part 5 of 7)
By Peter Wood
These intelligent and insightful people?like you?are willing to see past boxing?s blemishes and warts to glean beauty, determination, and courage? Here is your next batch of boxing fans?luminaries who will surprise you.…
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Boxing Fans Unite! Aristotle?Einstein?And You! (Part 4 of 6)
By Peter Wood
Here are the next twenty luminaries who go against the grain and unabashedly embrace boxing?America?s most popularly despised sport? ?Boxing.com is the most sophisticated, intelligent, and mature boxing website out there today.…
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My Thoughts at Ringside
By Peter Wood
Boxing is about suffering, enduring pain, and subjecting oneself to possible humiliation in order to seek, in the end, something like a state of grace? NEW YORK, New York?It is fight night…
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Boxing Fans Unite! Aristotle?Einstein?And You! (Part 3 of 6)
By Peter Wood
?When I was growing up, Norman Mailer?s boxing writing gave me the license to follow the sport: he made boxing an intellectually acceptable vice?? The older I get the more ambivalent I…
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Boxing Fans Unite! Aristotle?Einstein?And You! (Part 2 of 6)
By Peter Wood
Why are so many gifted artists, talented entertainers, and brilliant scholars attracted to such a primal-scream sport? Boxing is a primal-scream sport?so why are so many gifted artists, talented entertainers, and brilliant…
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Boxing Fans Unite! Aristotle?Einstein?And You! (Part 1 of 5)
By Peter Wood
Listed here?the first of a five-part series?are names of well-known luminaries from all walks of life who are boxing fans. Some names might surprise you? Aristotle admired prizefighters. Albert Einstein enjoyed prizefighting.…
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My Most Vivid Memory of the New Bobby Gleason?s Boxing Gym at 130 Water Street (Part 4 of 4)
By Peter Wood
I am no longer under boxing?s spell. I?m not sure I even like the damn sport anymore. But boxing has crawled deep inside me and has stayed there? (This article concludes my…
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My Most Vivid Memory of the Original Bobby Gleason?s Boxing Gym
By Peter Wood
I?ll miss boxing because the ring was the birthplace of my confidence; the launching pad of my identity. With boxing gloves I never stuttered? (Most people have heard of the legendary Gleason?s…
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Bufano?s Gym?A Small Factory Where Men?s Muscles Were Made
By Peter Wood
From the 1950s through the 1990s, Bufano?s was a boxing hotbed, a big name in boxing circles. Now, it?s so small it fits only inside my head? Bufano?s Boxing Gym doesn?t exist…
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The Boxer Who Changed My Life
By Peter Wood
Some people we meet in life change us so profoundly that we are never the same afterwards?that?s what happened to me the night I met Larry Giello? I met Larry in Madison…
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Twenty Rules for Retiring From Boxing?Graciously
By Peter Wood
Boxing and childhood are intertwined. Show me an ex-boxer and I?ll show you an unhappy childhood? Retirement is a time of happiness, a chance to finally do what one loves?but for boxers…
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?Rest in Peace, Coach?
By Peter Wood
?Before a man can become a good boxer he must believe in himself. There?s no skill without confidence and no confidence without skill?? The big man wiped the tears from his eyes…
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Max Baer and Barney Ross ? Jewish Heroes of Boxing
By Peter Wood
While recounting the exploits of these two men, the pages of ?Jewish Heroes of Boxing? are replete with fascinating cameo appearances? Jewish boxers? Somehow, Jews as boxers sounds like a contradiction in…
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Desperately Seeking Oscar
By Peter Wood
Boxers have an aura of nobility and menace that titillated my soul. I?ve seen presidents, media moguls, and Hollywood stars, kowtow to champion fighters? When I found out I was a prisoner…
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?Sugar Ray? is Back in Harlem!
By Peter Wood
Boxers are men who turn their psychological problems into a paycheck. And Robinson was pretty good at receiving paychecks? Sugar Ray Robinson?s boxing fan base is alive and kicking. They turned out,…
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The Seductive Id of Boxing?
By Peter Wood
Norman Mailer once called the rarest athlete in sports ?The Big Toe of God.? Certainly a lofty honorific ? sublime and sacred? In 1949, when Joe Louis reigned, there were only eight…