Copyright © 2009 by Katherine Dunn

All Rights Reserved
No part of this book may be reproduced in book form, except for excerpts used in
book reviews, without the prior written consent of the author and publisher.

These articles have appeared in slightly different form in the following
publications: “The Unhappy Warrior,” “Buckaroo Boxing,” “Vice and Virtue of
Boxing,” “Beauty and the Beast,” “Minker’s Mettle,” “Debut: Minsker Turns Pro,”
“The Big Risk,” “The Fight: Hagler-Hearns,” “Who is this Arguello?,” “Sugar
Blues: Leonard-Hagler,” in the Willamette Week. “Just as Fierce” in Mother Jones;
“Golden Girls” in Vogue; “The Knockout” in Women’s Sport and Fitness;
“Defending Tyson” in PDXS; “One Ring Circus: Ali-Frazier IV” in Sports Illustrated/Women;”
Fight or Die: Johnny Tapia” in Playboy; “Cuts” (formerly “Cut Men”) in
Stop Smiling Magazine; “Fists of Fury: Francisco Roche” in The Rocket Newspaper;
“The Rumble in the Rectory” in cyberboxingzone.com.

The following pieces appeared originally in the book, SHADOW BOXERS (Stone
Creek Publishing, 2005) and appear courtesy of the publisher: “School of Hard
Knocks,” “Hand Wraps,” and “Imagine A Square.”

Cover and text design by Tim Burns
Cover and Interior Photos: Jim Lommasson
Author Photo: Carole Delogu

ISBN-13: 978-0-98013940-2-6
This is a First Edition Printed in the United States
Schaffner Press, Inc.: POB 41567, Tucson, AZ 85717

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Dunn, Katherine, 1945-
  One ring circus : dispatches from the world of boxing / Katherine Dunn.
     p. cm.

ISBN 978-0-9801394-2-6

1. Boxing–Anecdotes. I. Title.

GV1135.D86 2009

796.83–dc22

2008047522