Lindy Lindell

Author Lindy Lindell had only intermittent contact with the sport until January 13, 1979, when he attended a match between Thomas Mearns and Clyde Gray in Detroit's Olympia Stadium. From his nosebleed seat, Lindell saw the boxers as being slightly larger then outsized ants; he determined to get closer and did, respectively as a journalist (initially for Hank Kaplan's Boxing Digest), a Michigan boxing matchmaker, and as a booking agent.

Author Lindy Lindell had only intermittent contact with the sport until January 13, 1979, when he attended a match between Thomas Mearns and Clyde Gray in Detroit's Olympia Stadium. From his nosebleed seat, Lindell saw the boxers as being slightly larger then outsized ants; he determined to get closer and did, respectively as a journalist (initially for Hank Kaplan's Boxing Digest), a Michigan boxing matchmaker, and as a booking agent. See less