Best Boxing Books You've Read

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  1. I Shot JR

    I Shot JR Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    The Hate Game is great.
     
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  2. Will

    Will Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Four kings as already mentioned is the best boxing book I've read.

    Also Hands of Stone is awesome!
     
    Will, Oct 10, 2014
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  3. rayrobinson

    rayrobinson Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    The life and crimes of Don King.

    Its expensive 'typical' but an absolute astonishing read about a true piece of work.
     
    rayrobinson, Oct 10, 2014
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  4. Tancred

    Tancred Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Just finished the book by Paul Kent about johnny lewis
     
    Tancred, Oct 10, 2014
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  5. big_daddy

    big_daddy Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Johnny nelsons is good, adam smiths one I'm partway though which is decent
     
    big_daddy, Oct 10, 2014
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  6. bigboots

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    haven't read a bad one yet. Hatton's & Tyson's are really good. Sugar Rays is probably the best of the lot. Benn & Eubank's are well worth a read. currently reading Dark Trade, some good bits on James Toney & Roy Jones in there.
     
    bigboots, Oct 11, 2014
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  7. ApatheticLeader

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    The Jack Johnson biography 'Unforgivable Blackness' was a terrific read. Ricky Hatton's autobiography was an absolute turd of a book, but I've not ready any of the biographies.

    Oh, and I'm loathe to admit this, but Chris Eubank's autobiography really wasn't that bad. At all.
     
    ApatheticLeader, Oct 11, 2014
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  8. kevinreid001

    kevinreid001 Punchdrunk101 Full Member

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    Already been said but hands of stone (durans a king) and four kings gd calzaghes book disapointing same with hattons first book
     
    kevinreid001, Oct 11, 2014
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  9. Felix Sanchez

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  10. Furey

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    Four Kings & Tyson's autobiography are the two best I've read.

    Seen Froch has just recently brought an autobiography out.
     
    Furey, Oct 11, 2014
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  11. wayne189

    wayne189 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    are there any good books about journeymen? that side has always interested me
     
    wayne189, Oct 11, 2014
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  12. Liebling

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    Got to be The Fight. Norman Mailer on Ali v Foreman. Simply the best
     
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  13. tjf81

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    Is that a new Froch one then? Read his earlier one. Didn't know he had another one out.
     
    tjf81, Oct 12, 2014
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  14. Silent_Service

    Silent_Service Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Mark turley - journeymen has just been released now.meant to be a *******
     
    Silent_Service, Oct 12, 2014
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  15. Silent_Service

    Silent_Service Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Don't know why my comment is started out there only said c.racker
     
    Silent_Service, Oct 12, 2014
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