One Ring Circus: Dispatches from the World of Boxing

Katherine Dunn is the author of a boxer. Unlike many literary types who pursue the sport as a metaphor excited, tingling, or slumming with the lower classes, Dunn really understands and appreciates boxing. She has spent decades learning the sport, coaches or fighters themselves. She sees the sweetness that can exist behind the gloves, the contractions of the ring, and the uncertainty of a sport that is rooted in another time. For a writer of his talent to translate a particular sport is a rare experience.
Rating: 5 / 5

It is an anthology of the novelist Katherine Dunn, thoughtful reflections on science writing fresh during the past twenty-five years or more. You will not find articles on Oscar De La Hoya, Manny Pacquiao or a more recent superstars of the sport (with the exception of a penetrating essay on Mike Tyson). With mixed results rather Dunn threw his eyes on the companions who are the foundation of the sport, the great battles of the golden era of the 1980s, the relative failure of women boxers fight had to be regarded as something more than that a sideline and lessons boxers use their years of dedication to their craft.

Dunn’s test to demonstrate his knowledge of sports and a deep respect for its practitioners. What’s more impressive is its independence of thought, as she reflects on events in sports history during the period, she was an observer. For example, the aforementioned article on Tyson provides a useful balance to the traditional view that he is crazy by digging under the surface and offers an explanation (not defend) his conduct in the fight biting “,” when there two times smaller Evander Holyfield ear.

“One Ring Circus” is not in the same league as Ralph Wiley “Serenity” and Carlo Rotella reduce the time “- books that go beyond it, are deeper, more poignant as they explore how the difficulties reshapes character. It’s strength lies in its coverage of actual combat, if it is as good as or better than the work of Thomas Hauser, John and Hugh McIlvanney Schulian, all of which are considered among the best reporters of boxing.

Anyone who loves boxing should read it.
Rating: 4 / 5

These writings on boxing amuse and entertain not only in their coverage of the vagaries of the personality of a particular fighter famous or forgotten, but give a controversial and sometimes violence in the human animal as is evident in the U.S. U.S. and, thus, everywhere. Lots of fun here, even for the fan of the non-athletes.
Rating: 4 / 5