Joe Rein ... at The Sweet Science

Joe Rein trained at Stillman's Gym in New York in the late 1940s and ‘50s. He fought at the University of Miami, for Angelo Dundee's 5th St. Gym, and in the U.S. Army. In the '70s and '80s, he sponsored an amateur team with trainer Tommy Gallagher that won New York Golden Gloves championships. Rein is a 2005 CJ Award winner for the best in boxing journalism, a member of the Boxing Writers Association of America and has an essay in the book "Shadow Boxers," and stories in "Bouncers." He's written for FightNews, Eastside Boxing, Irish Boxing, The Sweet Science and CyberBoxingZone. In 2003, he became the Executive Editor of FightBeat.com. Rein is a TV commercial producer and teaches at UCLA. His web page is: http://home.earthlink.net/~joerein/about.html

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Features by Joe Rein

	[Jul 28, 2009] Vernon Forrest: "I Have This Unquenchable Thirst To Be The Best" Rein Sat Down With Forrest And Talked The Predator/Prey Mindset, Junk Food Addiction, What Makes A Great Trainer, Tons More

	[Jun 3, 2007] "It's The Bottom Line" More and more The Sweet Science is a Victrola in an MP3 age.

	[Feb 2, 2007] Others Might Cry Insanity Norman Mailer doesn't duck, flinch, blink or avoid anything walking to the other side of the arena. Metal and shards and jagged hunks crisscross...

	[Jul 30, 2006] Toney XXL The recent tremor was at a presser for Toney's WBC 12-round heavyweight eliminator on SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING against Samuel "The Nigerian...

	[Jul 10, 2006] Fight Night at Wild Card If the looks on the faces of the fathers, mothers and sons that showed up for an old-fashioned smoker at Freddie Roach's Wild Card Gym is any...

	[Jun 28, 2006] Just Follow the Money Bernard Hopkins should be in the Three-Card-Monty Hall of Fame. Had he planned a heist as smooth as this, he'd never have spent a day at Graterford.

	[May 27, 2006] "Are You Making Any Money?" That's Daniel Ponce De Leon, WBO 122-pound Champion. Mention his name at the Wild Card gym, Who? is the response. ...lots of blank looks and damning...

	[Jan 20, 2006] The Glass is Half Full for Harutyunyan Harutyunyan has dark, wary eyes, a permanent six-o'clock shadow, and a monument to Armenia in the center of his face.

	[Sep 8, 2005] It wasn't so much Charley Burley's color... When great fighters are discussed, invariably Charley Burley's name is thrown into the hopper. Yet few fans have ever seen him.

	[Aug 3, 2005] The Elephant in the Room (Corrales-Castillo Redux) Neither Corrales nor Castillo would have been mistaken for the heroic figures of gristle and bone locked in a battle for the ages above them.

	[Jun 2, 2005] Nobody's Sweeter Than "Sugar" Ray Robinson He was every young boy's hero. When we play fought, we all wanted to be him. He captured the imagination as surely as Superman or Robin Hood.

	[May 19, 2005] The First 36-Minute Blizzard in Vegas Felix Trinidad, in growing desperation -- a glove always in his eyes -- searched frantically for a breach in the wall.

[May 12, 2005]
"What a Tangled Web We Weave"
Fights aren't settled in the gutter when you're the center of a growing financial empire. One's cut to ribbons without blood being spilled. It's done with invective and innuendo - not bricks. More ...

[Apr 30, 2005]
James Toney's Beautiful
James Toney's beautiful - all 233 pounds on his 5'10" frame. Gliding around a ring, he's as much at home as Michael Phelps in the water - Beautiful. It's the way old fight people describe him. More ...

[Apr 20, 2005]
James Toney: Wild Card at Wild Card Gym
Ray Charles' "Busted" on the car radio was perfect. Tax day, April 15. Nobody in boxing had any money. They'd be filing late, anyway. More ...