What is it that draws great writers to boxing as a subject? Is it an identification with the sport's pure brutal (yet calculated) physicality removed from the need for verbal acuity? A way to demonstrate street cred (a kind of reverse snobbery)? For A.J. Liebling, the "sweet science" (at least when viewed in person) was […] The post In the ring with Shaw and Tunney appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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