Boxing
Boxing: A Manly History of the Sweet Science of Bruising
“Boxing is the sport to which all other sports aspire.”
All sports have the potential of becoming about much more than
athletics, transforming into symbols of a culture’s and country’s mood,
insecurities, conflicts, and hopes. But perhaps no sport lends itself to
this kind of transposition more than boxing. Read more
For the purity of boxing
gives it the nature of a blank canvas; there is no playing field or
special equipment; the rules are few and easy to understand. There is
but two men, facing off with nowhere to go, with only their fists and
their determination to decide their fate. Thus boxing easily becomes a
metaphor for debates over our values: good vs. evil, immigrant vs.
nativist, bravado vs. humility, intellect vs brute strength.
