Category: Fighting

The sacrosanctity of the ring; the consecration of the mats

I wrote this for Darla. Darla is my friend and she is opening up a fighting gym in a small town in Northern California. She intends to train fighters and those who want to train like fighters.  I am probably wasting my time in writing it for her in that I know she already understands…

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A Wrestler’s Manifesto: Meditations on my life on the mat

“This is a memoir, but please understand that (to any writer with a good imagination) all memoirs are false. A fiction writer’s memory is an especially imperfect provider of detail; we can always imagine a better detail than the one we can remember. The correct detail is rarely, exactly what happened; the most truthful detail…

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