From Deer Lake to the Ring: Ali’s Training Camps and the Theatre of Sparring

Muhammad Ali’s training camps were worlds unto themselves – part monastery, part theatre, part battleground. Whether at the rustic log cabins of Deer Lake, Pennsylvania, or under the low ceilings of 5th Street Gym in Miami Beach, the preparation for a fight was a ritual that blended discipline with spectacle. Chris Smith’s photographs from these […]

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