Stiff Jab: Stiff Jab's Top Five Boxing Longreads of 2011

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by Gautham Nagesh

1. ”$50 UNDER 11.5 ROUNDS FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR. VS. VICTOR ORTIZ.” by David Hill, McSweeney’s

A beautifully wrought essay that relates Mayweather’s controversial stoppage of Ortiz in September while pondering the nature of fear and the impact of fatherhood. Hill…