Weighing in with a balance of the visceral and the cerebral, boxing has attracted writers for millennia. Yet few of the writers drawn to it have truly known the sport – and most have never been in the ring. Moving beyond the typical sentimentality, r...

"Boxing is not just fighting", writes Carlo Rotella".It is also training and living right and preparing to go the distance in the broadest sense of the phrase, a relentless managing of self that anyone who gets truly old must learn". Rotella's "Cut T...