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Glen Sharp's boxing career was a rise-and-fall story without so much rise in it. A sparring partner for light-heavyweight Hall of Famer Yaqui Lopez, he "retired" with a record of one victory and two defeats. A decade later, having come to understand how and why he failed as a younger fighter, he attempted a comeback.
Told with heart and wit, his memoir is a treatise on boxing as both profession and purpose. Sharp uses economic theory to describe the sweet science as a case study in resource management while recounting his own struggle to win fistic glory and his father's admiration.
List of contents
Table of ContentsPreface
¿1.¿Athletics, My Father and Me-A Love Triangle
¿2.¿The Growing Dream
¿3.¿Capitol Gym
¿4.¿The Golden Gloves
¿5.¿Training at the PAL-Spring 1979
¿6.¿Becoming a Good Student
¿7.¿Discovered by Bobo Olson
¿8.¿Boxing Is Economics Theory Expressed in the Flesh
¿9.¿Throwing a Punch and Hitting a Ball
10.¿George Benton's Shoulder Shell
11.¿Meeting Yaqui López
12.¿Yaqui López, Ernest Hemingway and José Ortega y Gasset
13.¿Boxing as a Martial Art
14.¿Last Sparring Before First Professional Fight
15.¿Locker Room Preparation for First Professional Fight
16.¿An Undefeated Contender
17.¿Back in the Gym
18.¿Losing My Second Fight
19.¿A Broken Nose and a Breaking Dream
20.¿Training with Yaqui at Lake Tahoe
21.¿Sylvester Stallone, Lee Canalito and Vinnie Curto
22.¿Jessie Burnett's Version of the Shoulder Shell
23.¿Learning Why I Was Not a World-Ranked Contender
24.¿Training at Tahoe Again
25.¿Another Loss
26.¿Leaving Boxing
27.¿A Lost Soul Tries to Find Where He Failed
28.¿Boxing, Zen in the Art of Archery and an Introduction to Literature
29.¿Don Conley and the Washington Neighborhood Center
30.¿Marriage and Healing Some of My Gaps
31.¿Becoming a "Smart Slugger"
32.¿Requiem for a Light-Heavyweight: The End of a Dream
Index
About the author
Glen Sharp is an analyst and editor at the California Energy Commission and lives in West Sacramento.
Summary
Glen Sharp's boxing career was a rise-and-fall story without so much rise in it. A sparring partner for heavyweight Hall of Famer Yaqui López, he "retired" with a record of one victory and two defeats. Told with heart and wit, his memoir is a treatise on boxing as both profession and purpose.
