whats your favorite boxing book?

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  1. Relentless

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    i haven't read any and looking to get into it.
     
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  2. alexvoce

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    joe fraziers autobiography.
     
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  3. GazOC

    GazOC Guest Star for Team Taff Full Member

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    Get the "Four Kings" great reading and pretty easy going.
     
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  4. Primadonna Kool

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    Frank Bruno "Fighting Back"
     
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  5. Pale Destroyer

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    Amen to that by far the best one i've read
     
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  6. cheekyvid

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    Four Kings and Dark Trade are both superb and easy to read
     
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    McIlvanney on Boxing
    Teddy Atlas From the Streets to the Ring
    Life and Crimes of Don King
    Tunney Bio by Jack Cavanaugh
    Sweet Science by AJ Leibling
    The Arc of Boxing

    Are all good. There are loads of threads about this from a google search.
     
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  8. Pale Destroyer

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    anyone read War Baby? any good?
     
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  9. theuppercut

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    Definitely my favourites. Duran's Hands of Stone too
     
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  10. Gosfield

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    The Harder They Fall - Budd Schulberg
     
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  11. Relentless

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    is de la hoyas book good?
     
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    Ringside: A Treasury of Boxing Reportage, by Budd Schulberg, is a great read too
     
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  13. cheekyvid

    cheekyvid Detroit, I shall return. Full Member

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    War baby is very good as well yeah.

    I seriously can't recommend four kings and Dark trade highly enough. Masterpieces IMO
     
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    No love for The Fight by Norman Mailer? Excellent I thought.
     
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  15. GazOC

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    Kinda.....Mailer seems to have the knack of winding me up though...:D
     
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