Fighting for Wisdom Inside the Ring

He pursued a boxing career, first in Sacramento and then in Stockton, the setting of the famed boxing novel Fat City, whose down-and-out characters Sharp evokes in his own portrayals of obscure, if not quite so desperate, fighters and trainers. Sharp loved boxing “despite how much work was required,” but Lopez loved it “because of the work.” And though Sharp, modest to a fault, describes the book as “a rise-and-fall story without so much rise in it,” his tale does include a fleeting moment of triumph: sparring one day in the gym, he unleashed a perfect left hook and knocked Yaqui Lopez down.

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