“Boxing is a reflection of our country’s biggest issues,” said film director Bert Marcus in a phone interview about his new boxing documentary, “Champs,” featuring Mike Tyson, Bernard Hopkins, and Evander Holyfield.
The documentary makes clear that one of our country’s biggest issues, related to boxing, is exploitation. The NFL doesn’t take care of its own. Football’s brain-slamming concussions are only now beginning to be grudgingly addressed. But at least there’s some oversight. Boxing’s sometimes lethal concussions are simply taken for granted.
Boxing is a warrior path out of the ghetto.
