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MONTREAL -- Georges St-Pierre is fond of saying that MMA is a sport, but it's not a game. This sentiment has been echoed in combat sports for a century. Joyce Carol Oates wrote something similar about boxing, that there's "nothing fundamentally playf...

Boxing may be a brutally simple-minded task, but there's a romanticism and grace to the sport that has lent itself well to prose. Ernest Hemingway, Norman Mailer, Joyce Carol Oates -- these are writers who could compose shopping lists that would...

Boxing may be a brutally simple-minded task, but there's a romanticism and grace to the sport that has lent itself well to prose. Ernest Hemingway, Norman Mailer, Joyce Carol Oates -- these are writers who could compose shopping lists that would win ...

It's been nine months since the release of Omar Vizquel's autobiography. And the barbs are still flying.