Best Boxing Autobiographies you've read?

Teddy Atlas best read
Dark trade great varied read (not an autobiography as such)
Frank Bruno goodread
Angelou Dundee ok read
Jake LaMotta good read
Audrey Harrison poor
Sugar Ray - standard boring old sex drugs and rock story Had it all lost it all found it all again and had some dirty sex along the way bollocks

 

Sugar Ray Leonard's was a great read. Never was a fan of his as he beat all my guys Benitez, Hearns, Duran, Kalule and Hagler. However he was clearly amongst the greatest ever maybe arguably the best ever. The autobiography was so honest. His multiple infidelities, drugs etc. He had one of the best boxing brains I have come across. He could beat guys who were even technically better than him.What a fighter and what a man. I always knew his qualities as a fighter but it was when I read his biography I finally began to appreciate the man as well.

 

I got mine straight from Jerry, I'll pm you the details. He's got 2 for sale. the Jimmy Bivins one and Cleveland's Greatest fighters of all time which I bought as well.

 

^^****ing classic...:good

I have the book but I've not got around to reading it yet, I'll report back.

 

Don't buy Nigel Benn's book, that's all ****ing bragging for christ knows how many pages...sex, how great he was, how many women threw themselves at him, ****ing garbage.

 

Yeah seen a few reviews that say that! Ah well it was only £2 I guess

 

You certainly did, couldn't put it down, I read it in one day!

Watched the film for the first time the day after as well, and I honestly thought the book was far better!

 

I paid full price for that one!!!! Stupid old me....

 

Are there any (auto)biographies of Marvellous Marv'? Ive searched around but cant seem to find one!

:huh

(theres probably one in Italian though haha)

 

Cheers mate, much appreciated:good

 

:good

 

Sticking to autobiographies only, my favorite is Max Schmeling's "An Autobiography".
Great read, the kind I will read again one day.

Another very good one is Mickey Walker's "Toy Bulldog".
What a character he was, very funny.


Some other good autobios that I liked were Ken Norton, Larry Holmes, Ken Buchanan, Otto von Porat, Charlie Magri and Jimmy Wilde.

The Mickey Duff bio was interesting, but he draws a rather opposite picture of himself than what I've heard so many people say of him.

Another trainer that did an interesting autobio was George Francis, who committed suicide some years ago.
Got the chills when I read in his book that he also tried to top himself as a young man.

 

George Foreman's was better than i thought it would be, also Ray Leonard's was a good read. Ken Norton's was probably the best i've read though.

 

Thought de la Hoya's was pretty good to start with but tailed off for me personally. The 2nd half of the book is the polar opposite of Calzaghe's where there is very little on the boxing side of things and more of his business interests, I would have loved to have seen him go into a bit more detpth of the time around the Vargas fight.

Having said that I was quite impressed with how honest he was about some of his personal problems, although events after the book was released quite clearly showed that he hadn't got over some of his demons.