I like to read boxing writing, because when it's good it's great and when it's bad its like this phrase, from Johnny Bellino's quarterly Chicago boxing mag, Boxing Shorts:
"The superbly conditioned [Tony] Zale, after being punished by Billy Boy Patterson for 12 rounds, knocked Patterson out so hard in the 13th, that the sweat flew off the loser's head and made a rainbow in the ring lights!"
My favorite boxing simile: toppled him “as if he’d been standing in a bucket.” I love that image.
That’s from a fight review I came across researching bluesman and former Paul Thorn for a concert writeup. Not every flourish in the piece is as good as that one.
Oh, and the fight did not go well for Paul.
http://www.paulthorn.com/bio/boxing/pages/1newspaper_jpg.htm
Hi, Jason.
Algren wrote that “his right was OK but his left wouldn’t fill his coat sleeve.”
Oh, and Jason, the best line in that is about Thorn’s lip, which “ran like a nylon.” Beautiful.