The Fighting Life
Ben FowlkesJust straight up writin' stuff. Occasional meandering philosophizing, sometimes dovetailing with my long career covering fight sports. Or not.
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'I don't trust happiness. I never did, I never will.'
Robert Duvall died last week. He was 95, so he had a good long run. As news of his passing spread, I saw people posting all their favorite clips from his movies. It was mostly the ones you’d expect: The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, Lonesome D...
Hypothetical question that's also a personality test: Would you rather be excellent and celebrated and sick of it, or mediocre and ignored and happy with that?
If there’s one things my kids excel at, it’s bizarre hypotheticals. What would you do if you woke up one day and you could taste through your fingers? Would you rather be a bird that can only fly for a few seconds, like a chicken, or a land...
"Why do guys have to sleep at all?"
If you follow me on any of the social medias then you probably saw me plugging my latest boxing history story about “Two Ton” Tony Galento and his improbable heavyweight title shot against Joe Louis in 1939. (It’s a wild story, that fight. ...
Now is the envy of all the dead
Recently I stumbled across this 2014 essay in The New Yorker by Roger Angell, who was 93 when he wrote it. Basically, it’s a personal essay about what it’s like to be very, very old. (Angell died in 2022, at the age of 101.) Included with t...
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Sports writer for Yahoo and Uncrowned. I talk on the Co-Main Event Podcast and I've covered fight sports for The Athletic, USA Today, Sports Illustrated, MMA Fighting, and others. But on here I'm mostly writing about ... other stuff.
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