How I taught a referee to count with violence and death threats after it was too late by Jack Dempsey
I'd also be curious which is considered the best overall. I've only read his autobiography and a few of the books he wrote on fighting. I think the fighting books were better than the autobio. I guess that's an unfair comparison. There's a lot of interesting stuff in Dempsey, but it's hard to top his books where he talks about how the most important thing is to end a streetfight as fast as possible. Or smashing someone in the face with your head while kneeing 'em in the groin. That's the real Dempsey, I thought his autobiography had a real passive tone to it.
I think I have read 6 or 7. Most regurgitate the same stuff. A Flame of Pure Fire by Kahn is very good. Also, The Manassa Mauler by Roberts and Kid Blackie by Toby Smith are recommended.
Championship Fighting...I like his story/analogy about how you can drop a baby on a full grown mans head from 10 stories and that will knock the man out and likely ****ing kill him. Used to illustrate how important momentum is in punching (when I said likely ****ing kill him...him refers to the full grown man..no thought is given to the baby)
Someone posted a book called the Dempsey Chronicles or something similar once. The story about how Dempsey was recreated in the future and went on to battle some robots. I thought that book sounded pretty good actually. I was hoping they might use it to make a movie one day.
I wanna see a movie where some crazy boxing fan billionaire has the bodies of all the worlds greatest boxers moved to one location (say everyone in the boxing halls of fame who are dead). Than he uses some chemical to bring them back to life..but they come back as zombies...fast moving vicious zombies...with the same boxing skills they had in their primes, minus the ability to be killed...plus the hunger for human flesh.
