What Is The Best Boxing Book You Have Ever Read?

come on Mcgrain your scots. Well i will let you off it's a doric word.

Means any good

 

I dont know if its the best boxing book ive read but "Mi Vida Loca" Johnny Tapia biography is the most entertaining one. I highly recommend it.

Mi VIda Loca means My Crazy Life and if you read the book you will see the title is fitting.

 

sounds good, i remember you saying its completly different to Rosenfelds book so sounds interesting.

I thought it was shite myself hes one cocky *****, also the ending is terrible

If the Dark destroyer can do it (convert to christianity), so can you.

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and gets asked by Old men to shag their wifes

 

Can't leave out W.C. Heinz's novel, THE PROFESSIONAL, with Billy Graham as the thinly-veiled prototype for the lead character, Eddie Brown.

 

That's a good one,Rooster,but my all-time favorite is "The Manly Art" by Elliot Gorn.

 

I really enjoyed Angelo Dundee's "My View From The Corner"

4 Kings was also a great read.

 

Yeah, I've read 'The Fight' multiple times too. I'm due for another read actually. I read it when I was 16 and was blown away. This was long before Amazon, I'd got it from the local library. They weren't getting it back, I ended up paying for it. Still have that same copy.

Have to add a shout for anything written by A.J. Liebling.

 

That one's a beauty, JG.

I liked Cavanaugh's "Tunney". "Unforgivable Blackness" was also excellent. "In This Corner" is a must-read for any serious fan... though Lew Jenkins' chapter is a must-read for anyone.

Kimball really did a fine job with "The Four Kings."

 

If forced, though, I'd say that Liebling's "The Sweet Science" and "Neutral Corner" are my favorites.

 

Barney Ross's autobiography is fantastic

 

I loved Tunney by Cavanaugh, as was Four Kings.

I'm currently reading Unforgivable Blackness (Jack Johnson) which is pretty good. Just bought the Langford book by Clay Moyle looking forward to reading that one next.