Jack Slack's written work for The Fight Primer, Vice Sports, and other publications.
After years of promising a library tour, we dive in with three of the more unorthodox old boxing texts from my shelves.
Style clashes are the lifeblood of combat sports, and few come more clear cut than that between IBF lightweight champion, Raymond Muratalla, and Olympic gold medalist, Andy Cruz.
We take the chance to revisit the three golden rules of spinning techniques, and a few extras that work as well.
We examine a few of the great Lazarus stories of combat sports and try to put our finger on the factors that made each possible.
"An unwavering juggernaut whose weakness is a love for combat that might move him to break down in tears in the middle of a bout."
The more of Du Plessis I see, the more I become convinced that he is that ideal fighter I have written about for so long: not asking questions but finding answers.
We examine the king of the classical side step and the cross step.