Just ordered Dempsey by the man himself- What can I expect?

Should be an entertaining read but I rarely bother with biography's written by the person themselves. I prefer the warts & all versions.

 

It's an old book that lacks a good bit of detail. I also have his round by round book written at a similar time I believe

 

It's really a product of the times. Rushed and glossed over. I don't keep either of the 2 books in my bookshelf TBH

 

Does it have colorful pictures and pop-ups? Please tell me they do.

 

Let's see Prizefighter and the fighting blacksmith both about Fitz are good. Chuvalos autobiography. Fraziers Holmes Nortons and Foremans autobiography's. Nigel Benns Eubank Steve Collins and McGuigan's autobios are good as is Frotches and the 2 Ken Buchanan wrote. 16th rd by Hurricane Carter but take it with a grain of salt. Lyle and Quarrys bios are very good. Fighters can be gentlemen about McLarnin is good. Mancini and the Archie Moore book by Fitzgerald are good. Leonard's book 4 Kings .Ghosts of Manila. All these come to mind immediately

 

Yes good book.
Eubanks book seems genuinely honest IMO

 

It's okay,the Johnson one was ghosted and is full of BS

 

Anything by,George Kimball,Springs Toledo,Hugh McIlvanney,Adam Pollack.
Sam Langford by Clay Moyle.Ringside by Budd Shulberg,The Black Lights by Thomas Hauser ,and anything else of his you can find. Dark Trade by Donald McRae,A Neutral Corner by A J Liebling,Box On by Harry Gibbs,anything by Reg Gutteridge,In This Corner by Peter Heller, a must.Night Train by Nick Tosches,The Life And Crimes Of Don King by Jack Newfield,I Fought Them All,by Greg Lewis & Moira Sharkey,Dempsey by Randy Roberts,Joe Louis My life by Joe Louis and Edna and Art Rust,Unforgiveable Blackness by Geoffrey C Ward,Twenty And Out Mickey Duff, Pound For Pound by Hugh Boyd & Ray RobinsonJnr,Inside Facts of Pugilism by George Siler.
That's a few to be going on with.

 

Would love Jess Willard s little fragment to go with my ketchell s tooth, to go in my little collection box!