Boxing Books I've Recently Bought.

Yes I agree Walker wasn’t anything more than a very game and good value “goer” but It was a fascinating and very honest book about a very interesting time. Like you say George dominated Billy and was the brains behind him. George is as much part of billys story. The ruthless ambition George had to negotiate for, then use his brothers paydays to build an empire for them both eventually took its toll.

 

I find it weird that Nick Tosches wrote "The Devil and Sonny Liston" and "Night Train" which was also a biography about Liston only 1 year apart.

 

I have never read many boxing books. I loved the old boxing magazines, which to me were great readings. Especially KO magazine.

 

I have been on quite a tear over the last few years myself and I am always looking for recommendations:
Boxing Books:

Read:

Gods of War – Springs Toledo
In the Cheap Seats - Springs Toledo
Murderers Row - Springs Toledo
The Sweet Science – AJ Liebling
The Fight of the Century - Michael Arkush
Once There Were Giants - Jerry Izenberg
Four Kings – George Kimball
Ghosts of Manila – Mark Kram
A Flame of Pure Fire – Jack Dempsey and the Roaring ‘20s – Roger Kahn
The Good Son – Mark Kriegel
Atlas – Teddy Atlas/Peter Alson
Chuvalo – George Chuvalo/Murray Greig
Facing Ali – Stephen Brunt
Irish Thunder – Bob Halloran
Hands of Stone – Christian Giudice
Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth – Mike Tyson/Larry Sloman
Heavyweight Boxing in the 1970s – Joe Ryan
Sonny Liston - Paul R Gallender
Boxing’s Greatest Fighters – Bert Sugar
Muhammad Ali – Thomas Hauser
Hard Luck: The Triumph and Tragedy of "Irish" Jerry Quarry – Steve Springer
King of the World - David Remnick
The Boxing Kings: When American Heavyweights Rule the Ring – Paul Beston
In this Corner…! – Peter Heller
Smokin' Joe: The Autobiography of a Heavyweight Champion of the World, Smokin' Joe Frazier – Joe Frazier/ Phil Berger (Electronic version)

Ali: A Life - Jonathan Eig (Currently Reading)

To Read:

Tunney – Jack Cavanaugh
Unforgivable Blackness - Geoffrey C. Ward
Pound for Pound: A Biography of Sugar Ray Robinson - Herb Boyd/Ray Robinson
Rocky Marciano: The Rock of His Time – Russell Sullivan
Strong Boy: The Life and Times of John L Sullivan, America’s First Sports Hero – Christopher Klein

Boxing Books (Coffee Table):

The Best of the Ring: Stanley Weston
The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Boxing: Harry Mullan/Bob Mee
A Pictorial History of Boxing - Sam Andre/Nat Fleischer
The Ring – Boxing: The 20th Century - Stanley Weston/Steven Farhood
Muhammad Ali: The Unseen Archives - William Strathmore
The Greatest of All Time: A Tribute to Muhammad Ali - TASCHEN Publishing
SPORTS ILLUSTRATED Muhammad Ali 1942-2016: The Tribute - The Editors Of Sports Illustrated



On my Radar:

Sam Langford: Boxing's Greatest Uncrowned Champion - Clay Moyle
Lanky Bob - The Life, Times and Contemporaries of Bob Fitzsimmons - K. R. Robinson
The Fearless Harry Greb: Biography of a Tragic Hero of Boxing - Bill Paxton
Charley Burley and the Black Murderers' Row -Harry Otty

 

One of the best reads for me was In the Corner
https://www.amazon.com/Corner-Great-Boxing-Trainers-About/dp/0688094465#customerReviews

Petronelli Brothers weren't pleased that Hagler stayed orthodox first few rounds...they didn't train for that.

Bios of Larry Holmes and George Foreman pretty good reads.
Holmes tells a few good stories about Don King. He pissed off the wrong people a few times.

 

You really need to get the Greb book....well worth the money.

 

https://www.amazon.com/Fighting-Lif...rd_wg=AzwS4&psc=1&refRID=01QMAD66HJFW63HED635

 

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.

 

I think i really really need Springs Toledo books.

If anybody doesn't realize he was a prolific poster here for years and still posts now and then.

 

What name did he use?

 

https://www.boxingforum24.com/threads/springs-toledos-murderers-row-tora-2017.599049/