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a companion piece to the author's playful ethiopians, gorillas, and great white hopes (which dealt with racism in boxing), this long-form essay explores the fight game's other inglorious aspect, ring deaths. explored here are four bouts which ended in fatalities: ray 'boom boom' mancini vs. duk koo kim/ ultiminio' sugar' ramos vs. davey moore/ emile griffith vs. benny 'kid' paret/ sugar ray robinson vs. jimmy doyle/ the question posed within is, how participants and spectators alike reconcile the sport's savage and sublime. is there redemption to be found in the shadow of death?

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christopher benedict lives in huntington, new york. he is the author of amongst us all (as part of the phantom writers guild), perfectly rational lunacy: oxymoronic writings, and playful ethiopians, gorillas, and great white hopes: racism in boxing's heavyweight division from jack johnson to gerry cooney. a second essay collection, birth of the uncool, will follow this autumn.

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