This American Life: Boxing

The popular non-fiction public radio show-turned-hit Showtime series, This American Life, gives the public an in depth look into the interesting saga that is real life.  Each episode conveys a theme and uses that as the underlying backdrop for the segments. 

A recently-aired episode followed two journeyman club fighters through their struggles to stay afloat financially and maintain a "regular" life, while still pursuing their dream.  The fighters, Marteze Logan (26-32-2, Ko's 6) and Anthony Bowman (9-29-2, Ko's 2), have made their less- than-stellar careers by, basically becoming opponents for other rising stars who are on their way to the top. (These are the kind of guys who are found somewhere within the first ten bouts of a highly touted prospect; between the two of them, they have losses to Paul Williams, Steve Forbes, Hector Camacho jr. and Cornelius K9 Bundrage) 

In this interesting look into the tale of two professional boxers who, like so many others in the sport, will never be recognized outside of their rural cities, we get the chance to see one of them finally succeed (on a small level, but succeed none the less).  The episode comes to a conclusion when these two meet in the ring for the Mid-South welterweight belt in Memphis, Tenn.

Catch the episode on Showtime On Demand or on regular circulation on any of the Showtime stations.