
The Bittersweet Science
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Editors Carlo Rotella and Michael Ezra have assembled a roster of fresh voices, ones that expand our understanding of the sport's primal appeal. The contributors to The Bittersweet Science-journalists, fiction writers, fight people, and more-explore the fight world's many aspects, considering boxing as both craft and business, art form and subculture. From manager Charles Farrell's unsentimental defense of fixing fights to former Golden Glover Sarah Deming's complex profile of young Olympian Claressa Shields, this collection takes us right into the ring and makes us feel the stories of the people who are drawn to-or sometimes stuck in-the boxing world. We get close-up profiles of marquee attractions like Bernard Hopkins and Roy Jones Jr., as well as portraits of rising stars and compelling cornermen, along with first-person, hands-on accounts from fighters' points of view. We are schooled in not only how to hit and be hit, but why and when to throw in the towel. We experience the intimate immediacy of ringside as well as the dim back rooms where the essentials come together. And we learn that for every champion there's a regiment of journeymen, dabblers, and anglers for advantage, for every aspiring fighter, a veteran in painful decline.
Collectively, the perspectives in The Bittersweet Science offer a powerful in-depth picture of boxing, bobbing and weaving through the desires, delusions, and dreams of boxers, fans, and the cast of managers, trainers, promoters, and hangers-on who make up life in and around the ring.
Contributors: Robert Anasi, Brin-Jonathan Butler, Donovan Craig, Sarah Deming, Michael Ezra, Charles Farrell, Rafael Garcia, Gordon Marino, Louis Moore, Gary Lee Moser, Hamilton Nolan, Gabe Oppenheim, Carlo Rotella, Sam Sheridan, and Carl Weingarten.
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- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction: Bittersweetness, Carlo Rotella and Michael Ezra
- Good Enough to Get Hurt, Donovan Craig
- Throwing in the Towel, Gordon Marino
- The Real Million Dollar Baby, Sarah Deming
- Why I Fixed Fights, Charles Farrell
- Plaster of Torrance: Unwrapping the Meaning of Antonio Margarito, Rafael Garcia
- Darius, Hamilton Nolan
- Post-Primes and Career Arcs: Navigating Boxing's All-Time Rankings, Michael Ezra
- Bernard Hopkins, Prefight and Postfight, Carlo Rotella
- Toxic Non-Avengers: Boxing's Quarter Century of Acceptable Losses, Gary Lee Moser
- What Boxing Is For, Sam Sheridan
- The Myth of Dempsey-Wills, Carl Weingarten
- My First Stripe, Robert Anasi
- Jimmy Bivins and the Duration Championship, Louis Moore
- The Masters of Stylishness, Gabe Oppenheim
- Roy Jones Jr.'s Long Good-Bye, Brin-Jonathan Butler
- Contributors
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