In the middle of what looks like a very exciting NBA Finals, another storyline re-emerged over the weekend which didn’t make many waves outside of New York. Donnie Walsh, who took over as team president of the New York Knicks …

Part IV—The Knockout Heard Round the World There is all the difference in the world between an upset and an almost-upset. History is loaded with those who nearly pulled the upset, then faded at the crucial moment. People talk about …

Part III—The Perfect Storm The genius of fighters like Rocky Marciano, Carlos Monzon and Marvin Hagler is not only in the ways they found to continually defeat their opponents, but in the ways they continually managed to avoid beating themselves. …

  “Joe Frazier said (to me), ‘You got three strikes against you. One, you’re a southpaw. Two, you’re good. And three, you’re black.’” –Marvin Hagler There is such a thing as being too good in boxing. Unlike other individual or …

For the second time this year, Nike has put out a controversial ad in an effort to save the tainted legacy of one of their prime moneymakers. The first came earlier this year when Tiger Woods, fresh from the fallout …

Part II—Buster and Dynamite While the crowd in Atlantic City was still waiting for Tyson and Spinks to shake the building, an upset was brewing in one of the undercard bouts. Mike Williams, a solid punching up-and-comer from Houston, who …

Part I—The Destruction of Michael Spinks This past February marked the twentieth anniversary of the greatest upset in boxing history. On February 11, 1990, unheralded fringe contender James “Buster” Douglas knocked out Mike Tyson, known at the time as “The …