What is the best boxing book you've ever read?

[JAB5239]

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Lol, what you say rummy.

[Willow The Wisp]

I have the book pictured.
Below are probably the best of my boxing library.

The Black Lights,Hauser

Jim Jeffries
Jack Johnsonx2
Bob Fitzsimmons
All byAdam Pollack

In This Corner. Pete Heller
The Impossible Dream.Gains
The Sweet Science.
A Neutral Corner.
Both by Leibling

Twenty And Out .Duff

The Road To Nowhere .Dixon
A Ringside Affair .Lawton
Once There Were Giants. Izenberg
Box On. Gibbs

Murderers Row
The Gods Of War
In The Cheap Seats
All by Toledo

Ringside Seats
More Ringside Seats
By Wilson

Carpentier By Himself.Carpentier

Johansson. by Johansson

Jack Johnson His Life And Times .Batchelor
Penny A Punch.Legge
Ringside.Shulberg
Inside Facts On Pugilism .Siler
Night Train.Tosches
McIvanney On Boxing.McIllvanney
Joe Louis.Bak Joe Louis by Himself
Joe Louis.Roberts
Sam Langford.Moyle
I Fought Em All .Lewis & Sharkey
Jack Dempsey. Dempsey
Dempsey1 Dempsey 2 .Pollack
The Boxing Companion.Batchelor

The FightingBlacksmith.Batchelor

Jack Johnson In The Ring and Out .Johnson.
Jack Johnson Black Champion.Farr
Ali.Hauser
Ali.Eig
Ali Durham
Ali.Remnick
Sporting Blood. Acevedo
RobinsonP4P .Boyd
by George.Foreman
George Francis.Francis
Come Out Smoking.Pepe
Boxing AndThe Mob.Sussman
Jacobs Beach.Mitchell
Tyson.Heller
Boxing's Hall Of Shame.Myler
Great Fights Of The 60's. Whiting
Fight Dr.Pacheco
The One is Jack Hurley1& 2. Ochs
Sting Like A Bee.Torres
Inside FactsOn Pugilism.Siler
Fights For The Championship Bell's Life Boxiana Compendium. Egan
Unbeaten.Stanton
The Rock Of His Times.Skehan
The Boxing register
Boxing Almanac
a Flame Of Pure Fire .Kahn
Raging Bull.Lamotta
Somebody Up There Likes Me.Graziano
Knuckles And Gloves .Lynch
Manly Art.Kimball
Four Kings.Kimball
The Life And Crimes Of Don King,Newfield

Fiction
The Professional. Heinz
The Harder They Fall. Shulberg
Fifty Grand.Hemingway

I've about 30 coffee table sized, mostly pictorial books and another 40/50 biographies that aren't anything special ,books on Fury,Lewis,Minter,Conteh,McGuigan,Bruno, several others on Ali,Johnson,and Louis

That's a great collection! You learn plenty by reading. Anyway; that's what Mom always said, so it's gotta be true.

[solidman]

awesome collection. It was this list that convinced me to buy in the ring books.

[Anomalocaris]

I have the book pictured.
Below are probably the best of my boxing library.

The Black Lights,Hauser

Jim Jeffries
Jack Johnsonx2
Bob Fitzsimmons
All byAdam Pollack

In This Corner. Pete Heller
The Impossible Dream.Gains
The Sweet Science.
A Neutral Corner.
Both by Leibling

Twenty And Out .Duff

The Road To Nowhere .Dixon
A Ringside Affair .Lawton
Once There Were Giants. Izenberg
Box On. Gibbs

Murderers Row
The Gods Of War
In The Cheap Seats
All by Toledo

Ringside Seats
More Ringside Seats
By Wilson

Carpentier By Himself.Carpentier

Johansson. by Johansson

Jack Johnson His Life And Times .Batchelor
Penny A Punch.Legge
Ringside.Shulberg
Inside Facts On Pugilism .Siler
Night Train.Tosches
McIvanney On Boxing.McIllvanney
Joe Louis.Bak Joe Louis by Himself
Joe Louis.Roberts
Sam Langford.Moyle
I Fought Em All .Lewis & Sharkey
Jack Dempsey. Dempsey
Dempsey1 Dempsey 2 .Pollack
The Boxing Companion.Batchelor

The FightingBlacksmith.Batchelor

Jack Johnson In The Ring and Out .Johnson.
Jack Johnson Black Champion.Farr
Ali.Hauser
Ali.Eig
Ali Durham
Ali.Remnick
Sporting Blood. Acevedo
RobinsonP4P .Boyd
by George.Foreman
George Francis.Francis
Come Out Smoking.Pepe
Boxing AndThe Mob.Sussman
Jacobs Beach.Mitchell
Tyson.Heller
Boxing's Hall Of Shame.Myler
Great Fights Of The 60's. Whiting
Fight Dr.Pacheco
The One is Jack Hurley1& 2. Ochs
Sting Like A Bee.Torres
Inside FactsOn Pugilism.Siler
Fights For The Championship Bell's Life Boxiana Compendium. Egan
Unbeaten.Stanton
The Rock Of His Times.Skehan
The Boxing register
Boxing Almanac
a Flame Of Pure Fire .Kahn
Raging Bull.Lamotta
Somebody Up There Likes Me.Graziano
Knuckles And Gloves .Lynch
Manly Art.Kimball
Four Kings.Kimball
The Life And Crimes Of Don King,Newfield

Fiction
The Professional. Heinz
The Harder They Fall. Shulberg
Fifty Grand.Hemingway

I've about 30 coffee table sized, mostly pictorial books and another 40/50 biographies that aren't anything special ,books on Fury,Lewis,Minter,Conteh,McGuigan,Bruno, several others on Ali,Johnson,and Louis

I had many of those once upon a time.

I would add Shadowbox by George Plimpton.

The section on the build up to the first Ali fight gave a stark insight as to just how much awe and terror Liston was regarded in by press and public alike.

[cawaminga]

awesome collection. It was this list that convinced me to buy in the ring books.

Thanks!
Which one did you start with?



Honestly, I’ve always believed you can learn a lot about discipline and mental endurance from boxing stories. But when it came to writing about those themes for my education project, I hit a wall. I wanted to capture that same grit in words, but structuring the essay was a nightmare. That’s when I stumbled on this and it seriously saved me. They helped me turn my messy thoughts into something that actually flowed. Sometimes having the right support outside the ring makes all the difference too.

[solidman]

Thanks!
Which one did you start with?

I am reading James J Corbett. He was tougher than i thought.

[Bennyleonard99]

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Very interesting little known insights about Mike and Lennox. Mike called LeRoy Neiman the night before the Lewis fight and told him he loved him. Witness who saw the teenaged sparring of Mike and Lennox. Muhammad Ali's reactions while watching the fight on big screen in Las Vegas. Lots of anecdotes like that.

[Bennyleonard99]

I am reading James J Corbett. He was tougher than i thought.

The film Gentleman Jim with Errol Flynn is the co best boxing film I ever saw. What is the title of that book?

[Bennyleonard99]

Jack Dempsey and the Roaring 20s by Roger Khan
Ali by Hauser
The Fight by Norman Mailer
I Am Duran by Roberto Duran

[solidman]

The film Gentleman Jim with Errol Flynn is the co best boxing film I ever saw. What is the title of that book?

That was one of the best boxing films i ever saw. I may watch it again soon.