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Topic: Boxing

Sydney Sweeney as Christy Martin in "Christy" (Courtesy of Black Bear/Eddy Chen)

Sydney Sweeney's only fighting herself

Coleman Spilde
Brian Tyree Henry (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Henry talks "Fire Inside" and "Atlanta"

D. Watkins
Jake Paul defeats Mike Tyson on November 15, 2024. (Tayfun Coskun/Getty Images)

Paul bests Tyson in unanimous decision

Alex Galbraith
Mike Tyson and Jake Paul speak onstage at the press conference in promotion for the upcoming Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson boxing match at The Apollo Theater on May 13, 2024 in New York City. (Sarah Stier/Getty Images for Netflix)

Paul vs Tyson, a new race clash payday

Rann Miller
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Imane Khelif of Team Algeria and Angela Carini of Team Italy exchange punches during the Women's 66kg preliminary round match on day six of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at North Paris Arena on August 01, 2024 in Paris, France. (Richard Pelham/Getty Images)

Culture war ignites in women's boxing

Nardos Haile
Actor Khris Davis (center) and images from the film "Big George Foreman" (Photo Illustration by Salon / Getty Images / SONY PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT INC. / Alan Markfield)

Playing George Foreman felt impossible

D. Watkins
Jonathan Majors and Michael B. Jordan in "Creed III" (MGM)

Creed III hits hardest outside the ring

D. Watkins
Donald Trump and Joe Biden (Photo illustration by Salon/The White House/Joe Biden Official Campaign)

Trump wants to box Biden: "He'd go down"

David Edwards - Raw Story
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Former US President Donald Trump (ANDY JACOBSOHN/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump's 9/11 plans: Hosting boxing match

Kylie Cheung
"What’s My Name: Muhammad Ali" (Rights of Publicity and Persona Rights: Muhammad Ali Enterprises LLC Photo by Ken Regan © 2019 Muhammad Ali Enterprises LLC)

Telling Muhammad Ali's story in full

Rachel Leah
Ricky Simon punches Rani Yahya during their Bantamweight bout during UFC234 on February 10, 2019 in Melbourne, Australia. (Getty/Quinn Rooney)

Facing 40 and stepping into the MMA ring

Matthew Rozsa
(Getty/LeoPatrizi)

Boxing and the Age of Denial

D. Watkins
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"Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man" by Thomas Page McBee (AmosMac/Scribner)

What makes a man a man?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Billy Moore (Getty/Anne-Christine Poujoulat)

My first Muay Thai fight in Thailand

Billy Moore
Floyd Mayweather Jr. fights Conor McGregor in a super welterweight boxing match. (AP/Isaac Brekken)

Mayweather's win was his alone

D. Watkins
Conor McGregor (Getty/Vaughn Ridley)

McGregor's racist double down

Gabriel Bell
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Floyd Mayweather Jr.; Conor McGregor (AP/Jae C. Hong)

McGregor tries on race baiting

Gabriel Bell
Muhammad Ali (AP)

Muhammad Ali is home

Erin Keane
Ali, the Greatest of All Time, 1976. (Dan Dry/The Speed Art Museum, gift of David Power)

“Champ, can I come in?”

Ashlie D. Stevens
Muhammad Ali, at a Veterans Administration office in Louisville, Ky. to appeal his 1A draft classification, March 17, 1966. (AP)

Ali's hometown heartbreak

Dana McMahan
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Cover detail of "Blood Brothers" (Basic Books)

"Can't afford to let me live"

Randy Roberts, Johnny Smith
Manny Pacquiao, Floyd Mayweather Jr. (Credit: AP Photo/John Locher) (AP)

Scott Eric Kaufman
(Reuters/Andrew Couldridge)

He's no "roll model"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Jake Gyllenhaal in "Southpaw" (The Weinstein Company)

The Great White Hope of 2015

Andrew O'Hehir
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