JULY 2006
01 Rinsing Off the
Mouthpiece
By GorDoom
02 Poem of the Month
By Tom Smario
03 Pollack's Picks
By Adam Pollack
04 Top Women Worth Watching
and Televising
By Adam Pollack
05 Holman Williams Belongs
in
the Hall of Fame
By Harry Otty
06 Touching Gloves
With...
"Joltin" Jeff Chandler
By Dan Hanley
07 Puppy Garcia Was
Something Special
By Enrique Encinosa
08 Muhammad's Real War
By Cliff Endicott
09 Champagne On Ice
By Ron Lipton
10 "Dick Tiger: The Life and Times
of a Boxing Immortal"
By Adeyinka Makinde
11 Floyd Patterson:
He
Always Got Up
By Ron Lipton
12 Nat Fleischer, "Mr.
Boxing"
By Monte Cox
13 "Ring of Hate"
Book
Review by J.D. Vena
14 "Gilroy Was
Here"
Book Review by Mike Delisa
15 Audio
From the Archives [mp3]
The CBZ presents another classic boxing-themed radio
show. This month we have the Thin Man in "The Passionate Palooka," from July 6,
1948
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Afterwards
It's afterwards
the public never sees.
Buying tickets entitles
you to leave like rubberneckers
passing by an accident.
In the dressing room
and afterwards
men suffer in private
what occured in the ring.
Sometimes they sit there
and cry and sometimes
they just sit there dignified.
I've taken guys
to the hospital right after
a fight and picked them up
weeks later.
Sometimes their body heals
but their heads don't.
Psychological injuries
take longer to
heal
than bones. The only
safe place is the gym
among the brotherhood.
Souls mend here.
Ego is an artist
in his element
dancing and darting
among the shotgun punches.
Once the
bell rings
you're either the hunter
or the hunted.
People sit at ringside
calculating blows landed
and arrange them into catagories
for a
safe and sanitary t.v. audience.
If it gets ugly, change the station.
Remember Benny "Kid"
Paret?
The public was mesmerized
before they were repulsed.
Now it's "ah hell, who cares?"
Broken hearts
and blood stains
in the toilet bowl,
what you don't see
doesn't hurt
you.
--Tom Smario
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