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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'Shadow Boxers'
Photographs by Jim Lommasson
You probably don't know the boxers in this book.
Few if any have danced under the lights
of Madison Square Garden or Caesars Palace. They are the underdogs,
the journeymen, the
rank and file of the fight game who toil in busted-out boxing gyms far from the
television cameras.
At one time there was a boxing gym in every sizable town in America. Today, they are
found mostly in big cities, tucked away in shabby lofts and
basements in the tough parts of town. Those that survive are the repositories of a
centuries-old tradition of pugilistic knowledge that encompasses not only the physical
mechanics of the sport but a code of respect and discipline that, at its best, transforms
raw aggression into "sweet science." [Read more]
WAIL! THE CYBER BOXING ZONE
JOURNAL
Spiritual Advisor on All Matters Fistic:
Hank
Kaplan
Founder/Co-Publisher/Editor
Wail! & Encyclopedia: Michael DeLisa
Co-Publisher/Editor-in-Chief: Stephen Gordon
Associate Editor/Media Relations:
J.D. Vena
Managing Editor/Copy Chief: Todd Hodgson
Associate Editors: Katherine Dunn,
Lucius Shepard
History & Research: Director of
Research: Tracy Callis CBZ Staff
Historians: Dan Cuoco, Hank Kaplan, Matt Tegen, Kevin Smith, Harry Otty, Barry Deskins, Matt Donnellon,
Joe Grantham Staff Writers: Juan C. Allyon, Chris
Bushnell, DscribeDC, Katherine Dunn, Dan Hanley, Ron Lipton, Eric Jorgensen,
Adam Pollack, J.D. Vena, Lucius Shepard, Dean Vios
Contributing Writers: Matt Boyd, Steve Coughlin, Monte
Cox, Brian Donegan, Enrique Encinosa, Pete Ehrmann, Pedro Fernandez, Eldon
Frost, Dave Iamele, Eric Jorgensen, Joe Koizumi, Dr. Ferdie Pacheco, Tom Smario,
Jim Trunzo, Fabian Weber, Randy Gordon
Web Masters: Dan Klepner, Dean Vios |