Boxing is widely considered to be a sordid and brutal sport, but veteran journalist and fiction writer Jim Christy offers a passionate defence of it i(...)

Original Toronto Star caption: Boxing is widely considered to be a sordid and brutal sport; but veteran journalist and fiction writer Jim Christy offers a passionate defence of it in his new book; Flesh And Blood. He points out that fatalities in boxing are lower than in several other sports; such as high school basketball; skiing; and so on. But his real interest in the sport is literary; and his main defence of it is a literary one. He points to the example of 19th century English writers like William Thackeray and William Cobbett. They all wrote about [Incomplete]