What are some good books on boxing?

I wonder too, I just got an amazon kindle, and I was looking at books, but skeptical.
I know a **** ton about my favorite fighters already, so if it isn't new information, i'll get bored and stop reading.

 

Four Kings - great book about 80's boxing...

 

"The Sweet Science" by AJ Liebling is a classic. Stories on various fighters from the 50'sish era. Focuses on Marciano and Archie Moore.

"The Fight" by Norman Mailer is about the Rumble in the Jungle. Ali vs. Foreman. Mailer is one of the best writers of the century.

 

sparring with hemmingway is a great one by Bud Schulberg with stories on lots of the ATG's.

the sweet science by aj liebling is excellent

 

GREAT book!

I also recommend Irish Thunder, Facing Ali, Facing Tyson (pretty good), Cultural History of Boxing, I've heard Dempsey's instructional book is the best ever, Joe Frazier's Boxing like the Pros is great as well, there's a brilliant mini book that summarizes EVERY ali fight which is my personal favourite, and a few years ago there was a book that gives a write up on every heavyweight champion back to Tom Figg era which is objective and offers great analysis of the context of the fighters times

 

"Pacquiao Is Scared Of Blacks: Lol!" by D.S.Nallege

Cracking read.

 

Joe Louis autobiography is not only the best book on boxing I have ever read, but also one of the best books on American history and boxing politics I have read. It is a bonus you get to read the mind and legacy of the best and most important HW boxer who ever lived.

 

Jake la Motta - Raging Bull - Brilliant biography, its brutally honest and has one of the best twists ive read in a book fiction or non fiction.

Teddy Atlas - Another brutally honest book which gives good insite into 80s and 90s boxing.

larry Holmes - Against the Odds - put off reading this for a while cause i didnt think id enjoy it but it was really good

Others id recommend are becoming holyfield, Hands of Stone(Duran), Unforgivable blackness - the jack johnson story, peerless(SRR),

Most boxing books tend to be pretty good, only ones ive been disapointed in were Clzaghes and hatton. Both wrote whilst they were still boxing and lack any edge. Hattons basically brags for 300 pages about how hes gonna ko mayweatyher if he ever meets him. nuff said

 

I know John Scully got a book out...

Johnny Tapia has one called Mi Vida Loca (My Crazy Life)... That's one im interested in....

 

"In this corner" 40 World Champions tell their story. By Peter Heller

this traces the Champs in their own words from every era starting in the 1900 -1970's

this is a must have.

 

Sam Langford, jack Dempsey bios, Tyson by Heller, Ali by Hauser, Four Kings, Big George, so many...

 

scully's book is not out yet...been asking him forever to finish already....irish thunder and teddy atlas' book are both good...teddy's was REAL good

 

Correct. Great book!:good:good

 

George Foreman was my favorite boxer growing up so of course I highly recommend "By George" co written with Joel Engel. Great insight into Foreman's life and his incredible career and overlooked accomplishment of becoming Heavyweight Champion twice twenty years apart. One of if not the greatest athletic accomplishments of the 20th century IMHO :good