I have done this thread before but it needs an update. Does anyboy here aspire to write a book related to boxing history and if so what would it be?
If I was gonna make a documentary or write a book it'd be 'The Ferocious Five'; About Jofre, Harada, Rose, Rudkin and Olivares. However, as I'm not gonna make the documentary or write the book, it's a moot point
I have been writing a book of my own for a few years now on and off - i wanted to write a really really indepth look at heavyweight history - and i have always liked writing - whether it will ever see the light of day I don't know - my sister who knows one or two people in publishing thinks i should try to get it published one day - and one of my mates (who's a big boxing fan, and who's read his fair share of boxing books) said (with a bewildered look on his face ) that he was surprised because he thought it was better than most stuff he'd read on heavyweight history - I was inspired to start it after reading the best book I've ever read on heavyweight boxing history "Boxings Mr President: The Story Of the World Heavyweight Championship" by Bill Beadle (1997) - a book I recommend every boxing fan to read.
once years ago for school i wrote a boxing magazine about various boxing related things past present future but i dont know if i could ever write a book about it. too much a.d.d for me
I wouldn't mind writing a book about some of the discussions, debates, and even battles that I've had here......LOL Hell, some of them have even been epic.. I've even had my family and my life threatened here....
Call me crazy, but I would love to have the time and resoucres to write a book about boxing's unsung heros. The journeyman, club fighters, and gate keepers who are in many ways the back bone of the sport. What the hell kind of a man climbs in the ring with a young beast knowing full well he's about to take an ass whoopin' for $1000 dollars or less?
I want to write a book about heavyweights, include everything going on like it was a month by month recap on things.
Spoke to grizzled trainer Macka Foley, who was stopped 13 times and double that as sparring partner for Earnie Shavers, who's slogan was, "I'll fight anyone anyplace for a thousand dollars", 'n asked him: "How much is the most money you ever made?" "$35,000 dollars" "For what?" "Torchin' a bowling alley"
I'd like to write a history of the General Forum. Think I'd call it: "A History of Violent ******ation"
:good Yep, those guys definitly have earned some recognition. If I would write a book I wouldn' do i on topics already covered many times. I probably would do one on the rivalry between Paul Samson-Körner and Hans Breitensträter, two German heavyweights in the late 10s/early 20s, who couldn't compete on world level during their primes due to Germany wasn' allowed to ake part in international sporting events after WWI. Bertholt Brecht, the best German writer of the 20th century and a big, big boxing fan - he once said boxing was his third biggest passion after eating and sex - wrote that Breitensträter was good enough to whip Dempsey. Körner at least was good enough to fight or spar with legends like Tunney, Greb, Dempsey, Jack Johnson, Benny Leonard, Tommy Gibbons, Charles Carpentier and a few others.