For more than a decade I was a boxing writer, covering nearly all of Mike Tyson’s fights for the Daily Telegraph, along with the title fights of Marvin Hagler, Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran, and Lennox Lewis’s ascension to the world heavyweight title.
Micky continued to cover boxing long after I was moved to other beats, and he went on to become one of the world’s most eminent boxing photographers. Good friends with both Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson, he amassed a wonderful portfolio of pictures, which included portraits of Muhammad Ali and every one of his opponents through the years.
Now his work is being recognised and memorialised in the form of a massive art installation at the L.A Live center in Los Angeles. The installation, created by artist Michael Kalish, consists of approximately 1,300 speed bags arranged to create a likeness of the athlete and based on a photograph of Ali taken by Micky at Deer Lake, Pennsylvania in the late 1970s.
To read more about the art project visit Micky Brennan’s LA Times story
*”1977 Portrait of Muhammad Ali,” an archival fine art pigment print 48 x 62 inches, signed by Ali and Michael Brennan, is available in a limited edition of 20 and is published by Artworks Editions/Artworks gallery.com.