David Remnick on Boxing
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David Remnick, on tour for his latest, Reporting: Writings from the New Yorker, will be in our studio tomorrow night. When we told him we wanted him to talk about boxing, he wrote in an email
Of course we can talk about anything that suits your fancy but I suspect that all women and nearly all men no longer care about boxing or understand why I might; it’s like caring about epic poetry, but low, low, low—a forgotten thing. Wouldn’t there be more interest in politics (Gore, Blair, Katrina, the Middle East) or writing or….God knows what? But you choose.
David Remnick, in an email to Open Source, May 22, 2006
We chose. We want to talk about boxing, and we were relieved at what he wrote us, since we’re interested specifically in the death of boxing. Where is boxing today? Who does care about it, and why? Has pay-per-view changed boxing? Has Tyson? How, like epic poetry, is it becoming a forgotten, unheralded skill?
David Remnick
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Editor, The New Yorker
Author, Reporting: Writings from the New Yorker and King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero
Teddy Atlas
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Boxing Commentator and Trainer
Author, Atlas : From the Streets to the Ring: A Son’s Struggle to Become a Man
Bert Sugar
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Author of over 80 books on boxing history, including Bert Sugar on Boxing and Boxing’s Greatest Fighters
Michael Santarcangelo
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Boxing Blogger & Podcaster, Boxing Scoop
Max Kellerman
Juan “Baby Bull” Diaz
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