Johnson vs. Jeffries / Jack London
Cobb fights it over again / Irvin S. Cobb
Dempsey vs. Carpentier / H. L. Mencken
The orthodox champion / Heywood Broun
My fights with Jack Dempsey / Gene Tunney
Brown bomber / Sherwood Anderson
Pity the poor giant / Paul Gallico
Louis knocks out Schmeling / Bob Considine
High tide in Harlem: Joe Louis as a symbol of freedom / Richard Wright
Brownsville bum / W. C. Heinz
Night for Joe Louis / Red Smith
Down great purple valleys / John Lardner
As it was in the long ago / Frank Graham
Kearns by a knockout ; Ahab and nemesis / A. J. Liebling
Archie / Jimmy Cannon
The fight: Patterson vs. Liston / James Baldwin
Floyd Patterson / Gay Talese
from James Norris and the decline of boxing / Barney Nagler
The champ and the chump / Murray Kempton
Miami notebook: Cassius Clay and Malcolm X / George Plimpton
Beethoven to boxing / Larry Merchant
Amen to Sonny / Joe Flaherty
Muhammad Ali then and now / Dick Schaap
from The fight / Norman Mailer
Pride of the tiger / Robert Lipsyte
"Lawdy, lawdy, he's great" / Mark Kram
Nowhere to run / John Schulian
Roberto Duran's New York state of mind / Vic Ziegel
Sweeter than sugar / Leonard Gardner
The fight (the king is dead) ; from Moving pictures / Budd Schulberg
Then all the joy turned to sorrow / Ralph Wiley
Eight minutes of fury / Pat Putnam
Up the stairs with Cus D'Amato / Pete Hamill
from Paper trails / Pete Dexter
from The black lights / Thomas Hauser
Never say never: Ray Mancini's last fight / Bill Barich
Leonard-Hagler: the fight and its aftermath / George Kimball
Ringworld / Gerald Early
Still hungry after all these years / Richard Hoffer
Donfire of the vanities / Mike Lupica
Rape and the boxing ring / Joyce Carol Oates
My friend, my teacher / Jerry Izenberg
"The fight's over, Joe" / William Nack
The great (almost) white hope / Mark Kriegel
Kid Dynamite blows up: Mike Tyson / David Remnick
The knockout: Lucia Rijker / Katherine Dunn
from Compass points: how I lived / Edward Hoagland
Champion at twilight / Carlo Rotella.