Boxing books I've grown to hate.

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  1. Robbi

    Robbi Marvelous Full Member

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  2. essexboy

    essexboy The Cat Full Member

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    Exactly. :lol:
     
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  3. TheIronMan

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    Peter Hellers Biography on Tyson seems pretty fair imo.

    Ive just bought Sonny Liston his life, strife and the phantom punch by Rob Steen, anyone else read that? of so what did u think?
     
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  4. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    The Steen book is very straight ahead, there are some insights. The mob thing is investigated but it's not the trip-and-fall-down block it is in Night Train. The Ali fights are seen as pretty straight up which is refreshing or naive depending upon the circumstances. Every writer will buy into the Sonny myth to some degree...this book is the closest thing we'll see to a straight forwards bio of the man IMO.
     
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  5. GPater11093

    GPater11093 Barry Full Member

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    thanks Robbi
     
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  6. Rourke

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    Any good/great book or books on Max Baer?
     
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  7. Unforgiven

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    Dont get me wrong, it's got it's merits. But all the good stuff in it is gleaned from previous books. The rest is just fluff.
     
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  8. McGrain

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    I think Flame of Pure Fire is a good book. I agree with you that there is hero worship of JD, but for the right reasons. I would go so far as to recommend it to someone in fact.
     
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  9. GPater11093

    GPater11093 Barry Full Member

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    on the subject of boxing books

    anyone see the new Joe Gans book that Ring did a bad review on as t said Fleisher was rascist

    well Ring have been having an arguement with it through the letter pages every month, giving the book free publicity haha
     
    GPater11093, Aug 19, 2009
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  10. Russell

    Russell Loyal Member Full Member

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    Yeah, I don't know how that ******* keeps getting paid for sucking on his phallic like cigars and being a uneducated, uninteresting douche bag.
     
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  11. Robbi

    Robbi Marvelous Full Member

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    Some of the best editions of The Ring were when Bert Sugar was the editor. However, he talks some amount of nonsense at times.
     
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  12. Bill1234

    Bill1234 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    The "Holyfield Way", I read it too, and I had to force myself to read it from cover to cover. I remember the end went something along the lines of

    Evander: "You just don't quit do you?'
    James Thomas (Author): "I learned that from you."

    I almost threw up when I read that.
     
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  13. Bill1234

    Bill1234 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    The man is a great and funny guy in person, he was on of the more fan friendly people I've seen.
     
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  14. TBooze

    TBooze Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I really was looking foward to Allen S. Rosenfeld's Charley Burley book, but just cannot get into it.

    I loved John Duncan's In the Red Corner, a history of Cuban Boxing. Sure it was basically about Savon, but it was fun and honest.

    I met Holyfield once (in my job), I love the fighter, but the person came across as a wanker, sure, it may of been a bad day at the office, but Holyfield thought of himself as a celebrity, but did not (in this instance) act with the class needed to pull it off.
     
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  15. slip&counter

    slip&counter Gimme some X's and O's Full Member

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    "shadows of manila" the author just sounds too angry and agenda driven to take seriously
     
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