Rounds de sombra: El boxeo en la crónica deportiva de tablada, garibay y monsiváis

The Mexican boxing tradition has generated a long line of literary and graphical works that have not been studied. This article focuses on three boxing chronicles: “La última gigantomaquia,” by José Juan Tablada; “Las glorias del gran Púas,” by Ricardo Garibay; and “La hora del consumo de los orgullos,” by Carlos Monsiváis. In these chronicles, boxing serves as a symbolic space in which social and political tensions are resolved. Moreover, as a sports industry boxing is a place where the professional sportsman faces the practices and conditions of global capitalism. As a result of the violence involved, boxing has also become a space that represents modern masculinity. The three works that inform this article thus arc through the Mexican twentieth century, revealing the relationship of boxing, journalism, politics, and the global market.