Greatest boxing book?

In the Red Corner is an amazing read

 

That depends what you like (biographies, training, history, etc.).
I think there is no such thing as THE best book.

 

i read night train lately.its good but i found some bits hard to get into

 

For an Autobiography I highly recommend "By George" by George Foreman/Joel Engel

 

Excellent choices all!!!Good job man.The most recent one that I read,and would recommend,is "Sorcery at Caesars.Sugar Ray's Marvelous Fight" by Steve Marantz,as well as "The Manly Art" by Elliot Gorn.Both are good reads also.

 

The best boxing book (and I can't even remember the name of it) I got when I was 13. It was nothing in depth about any particular fighter, but it had a few pages on every great in the sport spanning back to the beginning. ****ing book was huge. That's how I first got interested in Harry Greb. :yep

I can't find it either. Lost it a few years back when I moved.

 

The Arc of Boxing: The Rise and Decline of the Sweet Science by Mike Silver

or maybe - (list taken from another forum)

The Boxing Register, IBHOF Official Record Book: James Roberts and Alexander Skutt

· Corner Men: Ronald Fried

· In the Corner: Dave Anderson

· The Ring Record Book (1986-1987): Herb Goldman

· Boxings Greatest Fighters: Bert Sugar

· The Last Great Fight: Joe Layden

· King of the World: Dave Remnick

· The Heavyweights: Bob Mee

· Hands of Stone, The Roberto Duran Story: Christian Guidice

· Against the Odds, The Larry Holmes Story: Phil Berger

· Sound and Fury, Ali and Cossell: Dave Anderson

· Sugar Ray: Dave Anderson

· Atlas: Teddy Atlas

· Muhammad Ali: Thomas Hauser

· Boxing: Bertram Job

· Men of Steel: Peter Walsh

· Cut Time: Carlo Rotella

· A Savage Business: Richard Hoffer

· Fight of the Century: Michael Arkush

· Unforgivable Blackness: Jeffrey Ward

· Rocky Marciano: Everett Skeehan

· The Ring, Boxing in the 20th Century: Stanley Weston and Steve Farhood

· Fight Town: Tim Dahlberg

· Boxing Babylon: Nigel Collins

· The World Heavyweight Championship: John D. McCallum

· The Encyclopedia of World Boxing Champions: John D. McCallum

· 100 Years of Boxing: Bert Sugar

· The Great Fights: Bert Sugar

· The Great Book of Boxing: Harry Mullan

· Best of the Ring: Stanley Weston

· New York Times Encyclopedia of Sports Volume 7 Boxing

· Beyond the Ring: Jeffrey Sammons

· In This Corner: Peter Heller

· The Book of Boxing: WC Heinz

· The Boxing Companion: Richard O’Brien

· Dark Trade: Don McCrae

· Sparring with Hemmingway: Budd Schulberg

· Punchlines: Phil Berger

· Smokin Joe: Phil Berger

· Champion: Chris Mead

· The Pictorial History of Boxing: Nat Fleischer and Nat Loubet

· The Greatest Boxing Stories Ever Told: Jeff Silverman

· The Hardest Game: Hugh McIlvanney

· When Boxing Was a Jewish Sport: Allen Bodner

· When Dempsey Fought Tunney: Bruce Evenson

· Boxing Day: Jeff Wells

· The Greatest Fight of Our Generation, Louis Schmeling II: Lewis Erenberg

· Ringside: Budd Schulberg

· Raging Bull: Jake Lamotta

· The Sweet Science: AJ Liebling

· A Neutral Corner: AJ Liebling

· Reading the Fights: Don Halpern

· Barney Ross: Douglas Century

· A-Z World of Boxing: Bert Blewett

· Only the Ring was Square: Teddy Brenner

· Only In America, The Life and Crimes of Don King: Jack Newfield

· Shadow Box: George Plimpton

· Sugar Ray Leonard And Other Noble Warriors: Sam Topperoff

· The Sporting Life: Irving Rudd

· The Heavyweight Champions: John Durant

· Bert Sugar On Boxing: Bert Sugar

· The Old Mongoose: Marilyn Douroux

· Writers Fighters: John Schulian

· Muhammad Ali Memories: Thomas Hauser

· Earnie Shavers Welcome to the Big Time: Marshall Terrill and Mike Fitzgerald

· Going the Distance, Ken Norton Story: Marshall Terrill and Mike Fitzgerald

· Muhammad Ali The Peoples Champ: Gerald Early

· By George: George Foreman and Joel Engel

· Bummy Davis vs. Murder Inc: Ron Ross

· Inside Boxing: Robert Seltzer

· Ghosts of Manilla: Mark Kram

· Italian Stallions: Thomas Hauser

· The Encyclopedia of Boxing: Gilbert Odd

· Serenity: Ralph Wiley

· The Muhammad Ali Reader: Gerald Early

· The Fights: Charles Hoff

· Dick Tiger: Ade Makinde

· Joe Louis: Richard Bak

· The Fight: Norman Mailer

· The Heavyweights: Henry Cooper

· My Turf: William Nack

· I Only Talk Winning: Angelo Dundee

· 505 Boxing QuestionsYour Friends Can’t Answer: Bert Sugar

· New York City’s Greatest Boxers: Jose Corpas

· Boxing Legends of All Time: Robert Cassidy

· Black Lights: Thomas Hauser

· Boston’s Boxing Heritage: Kevin Smith

· Kings of the Ring: Gavin Evans

· Lightning Strikes: Gerald Suster

· A Flame of Pure Fire: Roger Kahn

· A Fistful of Sugar: Alan Goldstein

· Sting Like a Bee: Jose Torres and Bert Sugar

· The Ageless Warrior: Mike Fitzgerald

· The Loser and Still Champion: Budd Shulberg

· The Greatest, Muhammad Ali: Richard Durham

· Bad Intentions: Peter Heller

· Fire and Fear: Jose Torres

· Blood Season: Phil Berger

· Ringside Seat at the Circus: Larry Merchant

 

Nothing more needs to be said.

 

larry holmes against all odds
don king only in america

^ thoroughly entertaining, both books kinda coincide with eachother.

 

Norman Mailers "The fight" is the best by a country mile

Rope Burns by FX Toole is excellent too but it's fiction

 

Thats a great book, really enjoyed it.

 

Hows no-one mentioned 'Mi Vida Loca' by Johnny Tapia ????

 

One of my favorites is In This Corner: Peter Heller!

I liked Atlas too, especially the inside info of working with Michael Moorer and Cuz Damato!

 

I'm half way thought Four Kings by George Kimball now.
Cracking book, humorous too, highly recommended.

I tend to give autobiographies a miss, read a few but tend find them a bit one sided sometimes.
But i'm enjoying Four Kings because it's about a great era in boxing rather than 1 fighter. :good

And my thread i started last week on it.

http://www.eastsideboxing.com/forum/showthread.php?t=141694