The Longest Con: Bernard Hopkins’s Boxing Longevity
Hopkins indeed might be the most peculiarly American fighter of his era: corny in his creativity, self-assured in his own exceptionality, businesslike to the nth degree, ethnocentrically skeptical.
Joel Calahan is the former editor of Chicago Review. He teaches poetry in Tempe, Arizona.
Hopkins indeed might be the most peculiarly American fighter of his era: corny in his creativity, self-assured in his own exceptionality, businesslike to the nth degree, ethnocentrically skeptical.