To me, any excuse is fine to put a young Muhammad Ali on a magazine cover. It's a no-lose situation. For its October issue, celebrating its 50th anniversary, GQ has made Ali one of 10 different collectible cover subjects. Each cover features one of the "50 Most Stylish Men of the Past 50 Years." They include -- stop me when you see a name that doesn't seem to belong -- Ali, JFK, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Tom Brady. I'm not sure how Brady snuck in there. Let's assume it's because he's impregnated Bridget Moynahan. The issue is a gigantic 472 pages -- the masthead doesn't even appear until page 100 --and it's hard to find whatever they wrote about Ali. Fashionwise, the image of Ali that comes to my mind has him in a 1970s print shirt with a big pointy collar, made of some fabric that isn't cotton. But the inside Ali photo, accompanied by a very short essay on him -- ah, here it is on page 971,312 -- has him looking sharp in a 1960s black suit, with a white shirt and skinny black tie.
Moving on: Oscar De La Hoya has responded to some weird photos that emerged on the Internet this week showing his head on a body posing in fishnet stockings. He says the pictures are fake.
In real boxing news, Tim Smith did a nice report in the New York Daily News about a new book about early black boxers. Bernie Fernandez in the Philadelphia Daily News has Bernard Hopkins riffing on fighting overseas. At ESPN.com, Dan Rafael's weekend notebook offers his usual tasty tidbits, on Taylor-Pavlik, Calzaghe-Kessler, The Contender, Zab Judah and more. Also at ESPN.com I have a piece about a boxing statistic I invented called the Tyson Index, which measures the percentage of scheduled rounds that a boxer fights as a crude way to measure the excitement of his fights.
No comments:
Post a Comment