Best Boxing Autobiographies you've read?

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  1. gashalasha7

    gashalasha7 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Not biographies or books about etc...

    Just autobiographies...
     
  2. BrummyLad

    BrummyLad Sergio Kun Aguero Full Member

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    Read a few and without a doubt Tapias.
     
  3. Julie.H

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    Barry McGuigan very good book
    Ricky Hatton boring
    Joe Calzaghe Boring
     
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    BrummyLad Sergio Kun Aguero Full Member

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    Agree with Calzaghe. Hardly anything about his life other than boxing, the Duff stories were good though, for somebody who doesn't like Duff anyway.
     
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    Raging Bull is fantastic, brutally honest really well written. Highly recommend it.
     
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    And same goes for Bruno's actually.
     
  7. Nipple

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    Oscar's was very good.
     
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    BrummyLad Sergio Kun Aguero Full Member

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    Did he speak about his vice of dressing up and affairs?
     
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    Ray Leonards. Unexpectedly brutally honest.
     
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  10. Julie.H

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    Oscar's book was a real good read, one I took on holiday and couldn't put down. He went on about his mum and her desire for him to be a winner. He did put in a few bits about the ladies in his life hubba hubba ;) and the stuff he got into. He also went on about the other people in his life that took care of him and his finances. I gave my copy to a boy in my work or i would have sent it to you. I got it out of the pound shop so keep a look out for it. If you want the Hatton one I can post it on i was going to give it in to a charity shop.
     
  11. Boxing Gloves

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    Johnny Nelson's, Frank Maloney's and Herbie Hide's are all good reads.
     
  12. BrummyLad

    BrummyLad Sergio Kun Aguero Full Member

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    Lovely that, thanks a lot for gesture but read Hattons.

    Oscar is an oddball, I am glad he wrote about the vices because I resent people who leave out massive topics because of embarrassment. If your selling your booko I won't to know everything, not just the bits you want us to know but the stuff you don't want us to know.
     
  13. noonan

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    I picked that up last week after our little chat about it :good
     
  14. doug.ie

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    Trust me on this one....joe Louis's one is an amazing read....it's like sitting next to him in a bar for a few hours why he tells you everything, warts and all....he leaves nothing out, including a lot of detail about a girlfriend who was a porn actress who got him hooked on drugs for example....he boxed for a lot of the last years, even while still champ where he hated boxing and wanted so much to get out of it....
    A lot of great reading in this book.

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  15. Julie.H

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    Cool, I just think he is a guy that has and had everything that every man walking would love to have, but has got his own down falls. I think there was a lot left out that book though, I think he got in to a lot more **** than what he put in it. Hat's off to a guy that came from nothing and has achieved what he has plus he gives back to the community he came from got to admire that to be honest, a lot of millionaires would just take their money and run.