Fighting Library - The Orchid Man
After years of promising a library tour, we dive in with three of the more unorthodox old boxing texts from my shelves.
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Wonderful write up Slacky
My Dear Jack， This is what we all stay up nights hoping for. We want to your take on a second hand account of how a bak mei fighter got dim makked on hong Kong rooftop in 1959 and the origin stories of obscure characters from Tekken 2. We want you to tell us what Jack Dempsey was putting in his cream of wheat each morning during the writing of Championship Fighting. The only reason we tolerate your mainstream punditry is because we sympathize with your all around disappointment with the apex age. We all can gripe about the vitriol the Vince McMahon of Dagestan most recently spammed through one of his fighters accounts, but but I keep putting my five bucks a month into the patreon slot machine in the off chance that we may get a period piece about Don Draeger or some insight into what we can learn from Turkish oil wrestling that will translate well for the local open mat tomorrow. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Sincerely, The Lovely Arianni (of giving you my money)
Luv me grainy black and white fight photos
Maybe you could one day partake in scanning and uploading these files or rather the ones that arent on internet archives
Great stuff, look forward to more like it!
Aha! I knew Slacky's personal collection of books on martial art would rival Bruce Lee's.
This was a nerdy pleasure!
The William Howard Taft of having many full-page photographs!
great piece!
Yeah and Jack's writing is pretty good too
I THINK I GOT MY SWAGGER BACK
This is right up my alley. Love it slacky
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Really enjoyed this thanks 🙏🏻
Great article Slacky would love to see more of these
The history episodes are incredible