I have big ideas about the sport of Boxing. I've had a minor obsession, some might even call it a 'soft addiction', to the sport since 1982 when I listened to the racially tinged Larry Holmes-Gerry Cooney fight from Ceaser's Palace in Las Vegas on an old transistor radio at my next door neighbor's. Through the crackle of the radio I could almost feel the 113 degree heat seap into my own pores as I hung onto every word and was transported to ringside in my mind even though I was barely 11 and never saw a fight on television. I was hooked. A life long passion was ignited.
Since then I've become a participant, an outspoken advocate, an enthralled spectator, a furious critic, an unofficial judge, an avid collector and a friend to many of the sport's warriors as well as its myriad of characters such as promoters, writers, trainers, managers. I live and breathe Boxing. It's more than a hobby. It's true passion. That passion for the sport has resulted in me being featured in the new issue of the Ring magazine, on stands now, in the "Famous Fans" Column, and has inspired me to write this blog.
As Senior Editor Michael Rosenthal says of me in the interview, "The Passion is certainly there". Indeed it is.
I have aspirations to cover the sport for many years to come. If Boxing is a dying sport, as has been reported for the better part of the 21st century, then I'll happily die with it. I suspect, though, neither one of us going anywhere any time soon. Consider this my small part to keep it alive and punching.
