THE MASTER SNAPPER
Nov 26, 2020
4 minutes
Steve Bunce
@BigDaddyBunce
Voice of boxing
THERE is a famous black and white picture by the great boxing photographer, Charles Hoff, of Joe Louis and Ezzard Charles exchanging left hooks. The photograph and nearly 40 others are collected in the book, The Fights: Photographs by Charles Hoff. It is one of the most overlooked boxing books in a market swollen by hype, babble and endless self-importance. Hoff worked ringside from 1933 to 1966 for the New York Daily News.
In the picture, which looks posed, Louis is the size of Nikolai Valuev compared to the tiny, light-heavyweight dimensions of Charles. The physical disparity is so obvious
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