What Is The Best Boxing Book You Have Ever Read?

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  1. bodhi

    bodhi Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    "In this Corner" was the most entertaining. "Unforgivable blackness" and "Hands of Stone" were just awesome. "Schmeling 1905-2005" was the most inspiring to me. "Kampftage" (a German book about the history of German boxing) is a wild card.
     
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  2. riggers

    riggers Well-Known Member Full Member

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    The autobiographies of Holmes and Liston were very good. One ( i think Listons ) was called the night train.

    Marcianos was interesting.
     
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  3. Beau Geste

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    This was a great read!
     
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  4. mcvey

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    Hemingway called it the best book of boxing fiction he had read,he was right :good
     
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  5. mcvey

    mcvey VIP Member Full Member

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    Just finished Jacobs Beach by Kevin Mitchell,[ a Xmas present].
    Interesting read.
     
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  6. john garfield

    john garfield Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Just seeing that name brings back such wonderful memories 'n larger-than-life CHARACTERS, m. It was GUYS 'N DOLLS come-to-life.
     
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  7. JimmyShimmy

    JimmyShimmy 1050 psi Full Member

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    Boxing books have very little on just general good boxing writing, I mean when newspapers were juggernauts with writers who had a fantastic grasp over the English Language; 100-200 years ago.

    Most revered authors haven't got anything on the most mediocre of writers of days gone by.
     
    JimmyShimmy, Dec 30, 2009
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