Boxing Books - What's the Best ?

no real muay thai fights, just a crappy freestyle stand up comp.

but im in training now, and id still like to test myself if my trainer got me a fight.

 

Teddy Atlas's book is classic & i really enjoyed it.
How much of it thats true tho, is up to an individuals opinion.

The part against the triads is particularly awesome reading.

 

Ok thats good mate.
Same i used to train only a couple of tiems a week when i was in high school, when we'd spar most of the time id "forget" my shin pads so we'd only box

Yeah was gonna grab that but it was like $20-30 more than the briggs and chavez one, ill try to get it of amazon

 

yeah i love a good shin clash. got some nice marks on mine atm.

 

Yeah.

Yeah man tonight on fox the evolution show is on , i cant remember what time, but i got the macfie-dzhabar fight spoiled and the jwp-sean wright fight, but it should be good still

anyways im off, gotta get up for work in 3 and 1/2 hours:dead

 

I bought it off ebay.
Cheap as.:good

 

thats sweet

ill check it out next month

 

I've got a couple by Thomas Hauser, anything by him I highly recommend.

He wrote the best biography on Ali, 'Muhammed Ali: His Life and Times'

But even better are the collections of his writing on boxing released every year.

I have two, 'I don't believe it but its true' has Don King on the cover.

'Chaos Corruption Courage and Glory' has B Hop on the cover. Both of these are great, heaps of articles looking back over the events, fights, fighters and behind the scenes happenings of the year. Others of his I'm after are 'A year at the fights', 'Brutal Artistry' and 'The View from Ringside'.

Hauser has won a Pulitzer prize for a non-boxing novel so you know hes a very good writer.

Also another intertwining sports and politics in the Apartheid era is 'Dancing Shoes is Dead' by Gavin Evans, The Fists UK correspondent. he writes about his time in South Africa during the apartheid regime and the trials & tribulations of life and boxing during this time. Great read.

I have quite a few more in my bookcase but the ones above are the standouts. Robert Dranes 'Fighters by Trade' was ok, good to pick up and read a chapter here and there.

 

Thomas Hauser is a brilliant writer yes & massively respected in the boxing industry.
Some of his articles u read from time to time are insane.:deal

 

All autobiographies on boxers are awesome, doesnt matter who it is.

 

Yeah, funny that...

 

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should have quoted me brother :yep

 

Fixed.

 

Now im interested to know how you did that :huh