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She’s
not Arturo Gatti; no Sugar Ray Leonard; not Muhammad Ali.
For
those of you young enough not to know who Marvin Hagler is, then I’d
say she’s a modern day Bernard Hopkins. (One of the smartest boxers
around, 40 years old and should be past his prime, but still on top,
doing some of his best boxing.)
I’m
trying to come up with some other singer/songwriter-to-boxer
analogies, but I’m having a hard time.
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Let
me try this, maybe you could help. Connect an entry in column A with one in
column B. For those who don’t know boxing, I’ll provide my own, biased
synopsis.
Column
A:
Muhammed
Ali – I love Ali today, and miss the old Ali. But I have to admit,
back in the seventies I rooted against the guy and his big fn’g ego. He
was smarter than me; it’s only with hindsite I see his genious.
Arturo
Gatti – maniac in the ring.
Oscar
De La Hoya – great fighter; wants to be an actor/celebrity.
Felix
Trinidad – fast and spectacular.
Ronald
“Winky” Wright – unorthodox left hander.
Sugar
Ray Leonard – showboat; I was a big fan of Leonard back in the day,
but in retrospect, if I was one of those stiffs he used to put on the brink
of knockout and then go into his ‘windmill’ and ‘mug face taunting‘
antics, I’d charge him and bite his fucking ear off.
Joe
Frazier – anger and passion; working-class hero.
George
Foreman – the stoic, invincible Foreman of his youth or the jolly fat
old Foreman of his old age.
Roy
Jones Jr. – used to be the best, pound-for-pound, but now is sadly
fighting past his prime and losing badly.
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Mike
Tyson – absolutely scary when he was in his prime. But never
really learned to box well and was too small to take on the 6’4”
fighters.
Vitali
Klitshchko – he reminds me of a real-life version of the guy
Rocky fought in Rocky IV.
Ray
Mancini – lot of passion; his killing of Duk Koo Kim was very
sad. But Mancini’s career fell apart when his opponent loaded his
gloves with metal and beat the crap out of him several years later. |
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Column
B:
Fiona
Apple – Ray
Mancini; and Sony is the guy with the metal in his gloves; and her
acceptance speech is Duk Koo Kim.
Bruce
Springsteen – my choice: Joe Frazier.
Bob
Dylan –
Elton
John –
Patti
Smith – Joe Frazier
Tori
Amos – Felix Trinidad?
Jim
Morrison –
Kurt
Cobain –
Eddie
Vedder –
Sheryl
Crow – Oscar De la Hoya
U2’s
Bono –
The
Finn Brothers
Eminem
–
I
don’t know, I just can’t get this to work. Maybe the list is bad. Write
in if you come up with something; you can come up with your own fighters or
songwriters.
Like
maybe Alvin Lee (guitarist) is Felix Trinidad.
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