Just finished The Big Fight by Sugar Ray Leonard. He is brutally honest about his addiction issues.
That seems to be a boxer's trait, spending up big.
Personally I would ask who Tyson actually beat, he seems to have lost each time he stepped up to face top talent (Holyfield and Lewis). His best...
Louis by points. Reckon Jeffries needs a longer fight to get into his groove. Don't see a fighter who survived battles with people like...
Ultimate Tough Guy by James Carney is also good.
I LOVED The Road To Nowhere by Tris Dixon, a young English writer travels to the US to find the boxers of the recent past. Great stories.
Read a few books recently: John L Sullivan and his America - This was a good one, gave us a look at Sullivan and a load of context with the...
Fleischer was fine for his time I think. He wrote a load of articles on boxing and helped publicise it through the magazine. I have been reading...
Is there money to be made with rare fights, for example if someone had a Greb fight, what kind of money are we looking at for it?
Actually saw him mentioned in the December 1931 issue of The Ring as I happened to be reading it yesterday. Early career start and early...
I liked Larios a lot, pleasing style and always gave a lot in the ring. One tough hombre.
Loads of great books out there, just hard to get some of them at good prices. Adam Pollock, Springs Toledo and Clay Moyle have both written some...
I have all the issues of the Ring from 1922 onwards, with the exception of a few 1920's issues. Great magazines on the whole, was reading a 1931...
Bought it as soon as it came out, your first book was brilliant and I expect this one to be just as good if not better. Loved the Tony De Marco...
