February 2006
Rinsing Off the Mouthpiece
By GorDoom
Poem of the Month
By Tom Smario
The 2005 CBZ Year-End Awards
By J.D. Vena
Women to Watch For in 2006
By Adam
Pollack
INTERVIEWS:
Lou DiBella: No Joe Palooka
By Dave Iamaele
Lamon Brewster, Unplugged
By Juan C.
Ayllon
Touching Gloves with...
Clyde Gray
By Dan
Hanley
PROFILES:
Iron Mike Tyson: Myth or Monster?
By
Jim Trunzo
Jess Sandoval: The Coach Says,
"Bundle Up"
By
Katherine Dunn
The Legend of the Cuban Baron,
Ramon Castillo
By Enrique Encinsoa
Paul Thorn
By Pete Ehrman
Battling Nelson: Always Battered,
Seldom Beaten
By Tracy Callis
Kid Chocolate,
the Cuban Bon Bon
By Monte Cox
BOOK REVIEWS AND EXCERPTS:
Shadow Boxers
Photographs by Jim
Lommasson
The Iceman Diaries
by John Scully
The Boxing Bookshelf
by Dave Iamele
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The Hawk
Incredible!
You can say that again.
Einstein couldn't have invented him.
Perpetual motion is impossible,
but Aaron Pryor who was no scientist
didn't know that.
Crazy, yes. Scary? A little bit.
He could do a back flip at the
wrong end of a straight right,
roll over, land on his feet and
throw a few hundred punches before
coming up for air.
He missed half of them, but oh
God, the ones he landed. Remember
Arguello? Remember Blackmore?
The great Columbian Antonio Cervantes
became an old man the night he lost
his title to Pryor.
Right then I said to myself, "Smario,
this guy is incredible." I won five
straight games of pool against my
friend, Thomsen, at the Oak Grove
Tavern while I watched the fight
on television. It didn't matter
that Pryor won, I would have whipped
Thomsen anyway.
--Tom Smario
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