Innholdsfortegnelse for May/June 2023 i Maxim

It was a nagging pain Canelo Álvarez walked away with following his May, 2022 defeat at the hands of Russian light-heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol. Of course, pain is an occupational hazard for a fighter, but persistent pain could be something to take seriously—if you let it slow you down. Which Álvarez didn’t, completing a fraught trilogy of battles with middleweight Gennady Golovkin last September with a win, revealing only after the fight that he could barely use his left hand. Undergoing surgery in November, Álvarez, whose career spans roughly 17 years with a record of 58-2-2 with 39 KO’s, is currently weighing a rematch against Bivol, only the second fighter ever to beat him. Some say Álvarez, who has won multiple world championships across four different weight classes, was mismatched,…

Cary Grant, Clark Gable, Gary Cooper, Humphrey Bogart, Duke Ellington, Alain Delon, Marcello Mastroianni, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Gunther Sachs, Gianni Agnelli, Muhammad Ali, and Andy Warhol. A diverse group of super-cool cats who all shared one thing in common: the Cartier Tank watch on their wrists. Warhol once said, “I don’t wear a Tank watch to tell the time. In fact, I never wind it. I wear a Tank because it’s the watch to wear.” The pope of Pop Art was, of course, just being deliberately insipid, as usual. The Tank is as much a marvel of mechanical excellence as it is an aesthetic triumph. This most elegant of watches in fact has a military background, its rectangular design having been inspired by the Renault FT-17 tanks being used on the…

The man credited with being perhaps the most successful Wall Street investor and hedge fund manager in history—and perhaps the most intelligent billionaire in the world—has little interest in the kind of knowledge and information that is seemingly foundational to his peers in wealth management. Simons, currently worth about $28 billion, is not solely focused on the stocks and other financial assets that Renaissance Technologies, the firm he founded in 1982, trades on a daily basis. He doesn’t delve into the detailed ins and outs of each trade, and in fact actively works to avoid trying to decipher the meaning and causes behind the buying and selling transactions of his firm—as he believes these attempts could contaminate the groundbreaking ‘quantitative investing’ system he crafted and that is the heart of…

To capture Bob Willoughby’s work in a book is to capture exciting moments of motion picture history that a viewer can look at and study and enjoy over “ and over again.” The great Tony Curtis was speaking about the American camera-wielder who was the first “outside” photographer ever hired by the major movie studios to create images for mainstream magazines such as Life and Look, inventing a new genre of photography in the process. The quote comes from Bob Willoughby: A Cinematic Life, a long overdue, coffee table-worthy tribute to the pio-neering lensman from Chronicle Chroma books. As his son Christopher Willoughby writes in the book, Willoughby basically invented the movie “still”, coming up with “an ingenious method of shooting on movie sets without making any noise.” And when…

Maxim, Tao Group Hospitality, and unKommon events brought together the biggest names in sports and entertainment for the Big Game Party: Catch me if You Can experience with performances from Zedd, Offset, Loud Luxury, Plastik Funk, and DJ unKommon at the Southwest Jet Center in Scottsdale, AZ. The star-studded event played host to some of the biggest names across sports, music, and entertainment including Travis Scott, Tyga, Teyana Taylor, Wanda Sykes, Maxim cover star Paige Spiranac, Gracie Hunt, Cher and AE, J Balvin, Dylan Barbour, Ivan Hall, Akbar Gbaja-Biamila, superstar chefs Bobby Flay and Gordon Ramsay, Jalen Rose, Darrelle Revis, CC Sabathia, ‘Suga’ Sean O’Malley, Warren Sapp, Jordan Poyer, Zuri Hall, Liza, Koshy, Key Glock and more. Wanda Sykes danced her way down the red carpet rooting for the Philadelphia…

In uncertain times, we are all comforted by the classics—classic beauty by no means least of all. And our Hot 100 issue is always one for the ages. These women are not only drop-dead gorgeous but multitalented, many with several savvy entrepreneurial ventures to their credit. It’s no surprise they get all the best movie deals, record contracts and advertising campaigns. So feast your eyes on the incredibly accomplished beauties on this list, some already bona fide legends, others just starting out; but all of them embodying that ineffable quality, “hot,” that we survey in such high style every year.…

Allegra Paris Allegra Paris is no ordinary human. With a perfectly fit body, honeybrown eyes, and goddess-like hair, she exudes a natural beauty that melts hearts across the world. Paris grew up on a farm in Upstate New York, riding horses and raising chickens. Life took a welcome turn when she moved to Manhattan for college. And her modeling career took off while she worked on getting not one, but two business degrees. With a passion for health and nutrition, Paris also got her NASM certification in personal training and nutrition coaching. She is currently living her dream of helping people look and feel their best at any age. “I teach a pop-up workout class called Bikini Body,” she tells us. “I’d love to see this class grow and expand…