What Boxers deserve a Biography?

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  1. roughdiamond

    roughdiamond Ridin' the rails... Full Member

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    As title states. I myself find it curious that a proper biography has never been made on the great Tony Canozoneri, one of the greatest fighters ever and very popular in his own time.

    Who else deserves consideration?
     
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  2. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    Not Lennox Lewis who wrote an auto-bio after knocking Ruddock out and has now got a doc made about his life and career because there`s so many doc`s about Mike Tyson, Mike was simply a more interesting character and more explosive boxer than Lewis who is boring in interviews, Tyson Fury`s auto-bio is brilliant, maybe Lewis think about driving into a wall like Fury was going to due to suicidal thoughts or drive into a tree like Mike Tyson.
     
  3. Showstopper97

    Showstopper97 The Icon Full Member

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    Deontay Wilder when his career is done. His deluded personality is intriguing & worthy of a documentary. I can see it now. The title - 'Deontay Wilder: The Man Who Played The Role Of A Boxer'.
     
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  4. NoNeck

    NoNeck Pugilist Specialist

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    Hasim Rahman. His life seemed interesting enough before boxing.
     
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    salsanchezfan Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    KO KIDD Loyal Member Full Member

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    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    I can't think of anything i'd rather read than a really well oiled biography of Corporal Izzy Scwhartz. From the orphanage to the army (somehow, though I read he was actually physically too small to enlist?) to the championship of the world. And he fought everyone from that generation. A true savage.

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  8. Gatekeeper

    Gatekeeper Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Charles Martin - My Life and Dives
     
  9. thistle

    thistle Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I like to read about Top Fighters who were as good as any, whom under the right circumstances, ownership, management, equal opportunity, could have been World Champions, but Top Fighters none-the-less.

    all the usual suspects have plenty of Ink, too much alot of the time, Ali, for example, but these fighters lives & careers are often more compelling.

    Canadian - Sonny Jones
    Scotsman - Jim Brady
    Englishman - Joe Bowker
    American - Bobby Dobbs
    American - Lloyd Marshall
    Frenchmen - Robert Villemain

    and so on. fighters like these.
     
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  10. mrkoolkevin

    mrkoolkevin Never wrestle with pigs or argue with fools Full Member

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    Matthew Saad Muhammad
    Floyd Mayweather Jr.
     
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  11. robert ungurean

    robert ungurean Богдан Philadelphia Full Member

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    MSM most definitely as stated a few times above.
    Hagler. Theres one out but he had no input in it.
    Hearns
    Zivic
    Amber's
    A book on the glory days of the Philadelphia middleweight scene
    Gibbons brothers
    Kid Norfolk
    GGG
    James Toney
    BHop
    It would be great if the living guys would put out Autobiographies.
    I could list more like Little Red Lopez too but it would be a pretty long list.
    I really enjoy auto bios and bios alot
     
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  12. The Morlocks

    The Morlocks Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Galindez
    A real one on Liston
    Billy Petrolle
    Limon/Chacon/Boza/Navarrate "The Real Four Kings"
    Bob Satterfield
    Baaaaaaad Bennie Briscoe
    Jiro Watanabe
    Frank Fletcher
    Ike Williams
    Gene Fullmer
     
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    janitor VIP Member Full Member

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  14. The Morlocks

    The Morlocks Boxing Junkie Full Member

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  15. KasimirKid

    KasimirKid Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Morlocks, thanks for giving me the opportunity to toot my own horn. There's a whole lot of information about Billy Petrolle in Volume One of my Jack Hurley trilogy "The One Is Jack Hurley." The title of the first volume is "Son of Fargo." Soft cover available from Amazon and other online outlets, hardcover available from the author, with 710 pp., around 350 photos conveniently imbedded in the text. Also has information about Tony Canzoneri and Mike Gibbons, both of whom have been mentioned as likely candidates for a biography in this thread.
     
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