Best Boxing Autobiographies you've read?

Yeah agree Jules. He fought anybody and looks to better himself always, he's a fighter. Will defo read but my next read is long overdue in reading about Joe Frazier, one of my fave fighters and an idol.

 

try billy walkers,good read,now that man was a big shagger

 

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Friday's Heroes, Willie Pep Remembers. Willie talks about his own life and his contemporaries of the Friday night television fights.

In This Corner by Pete Heller. 40 World champs tell their stories in their own words.

 

larry holmes is pretty entertaining.

 

Mike needs to drop one soon..a proper in-depth one, It could be the best out there.

 

Nigel benns is a good read

 

Any chance you can scan and post the rest of the book Doug? I'm a little short of cash at the moment....

 

Very Good:

Jake LaMotta
Ray Leonard
Larry Holmes
Teddy Atlas
Jack Johnson
Roberto Duran

Decent:

Frank Bruno
Herbie Hide
Tommy Hearns
Ruben Carter
Ray Robinson

So-so:

Nigel Benn
Evander Holyfield
Mike Tyson
Rocky Marciano

Drab:

Joe Calzaghe
Ricky Hatton
Oscar De La Hoya

*not all autobiographies but you can judge them on what I rank them with biography wise using that list

 

Durans bio is very good.

 

Is Froch's any good?

 

Not bad but thats about it. Sort of incomplete as well.....

 

I still got a fair few on the bookshelf left to read:

Joe Louis
David Haye (£1 shop otherwise wouldn't have bought)
Muhammad Ali
Amir Khan (As with Hayes)
harry Holland

Just downloaded Joe Gans and Peter Jackson's onto my kindle as well

 

Is it worth £9 on kindle or better ones to buy?