Best boxing books?

[Tom Cruise]

looking to buy a few. Any advice? Biographies, Autobiographies or anything really.

Ive read Sugar Ray Leonard's autobiography and a Muhammad Ali biography but thats it.

[rightsideup]

hands of stone, any book on great fighters of the past

[K-DOGG]

"Cinderella Man" is a great book.

"Bare Fists" by Bob Mee is a fascinating look at the history of bare knuckle prize fighting from James Figg to John L. Sullivan

I'd also recommend "Smokin'", Joe Frazier's autobiography

and "By George" was a great read....that's George Foreman's autobiography.

Needless to say, "Muhammad Ali" by Thomas Hauser is fantastic

"The Greatest", by Ali himself is a good read.

and "Ghosts of Manila", while a little jaded and biased, does do a good job of taking an in depth look at the culmination of the Ali-Frazier rivalry.


...hope that helped.

[billeau2]

looking to buy a few. Any advice? Biographies, Autobiographies or anything really.

Ive read Sugar Ray Leonard's autobiography and a Muhammad Ali biography but thats it.

I always recommend Jack Dempseys books in pdf. I forget the names but one of them at least can be found if you google him.

Norman Mailer's piece on foreman, for Playboy.

[Sugar Adam Ali]

I really enjoyed Joe Frazier's training guide book.. I thought that was great.. Great insight into the boxing mind of frazier


also the "Holyfield Way" and "the life and crimes of don king"

[BattlingNelson]

The best book on boxing I ever read is In this corner by Peter Heller. Highly recommended.

[Scott9945]

Raging Bull (the book, not the movie) was probably better than any boxing bio I've read.

Jack Johnson wrote a fascinating autobiography if you can find it. Lots of insights on boxing techniques.

[rightsideup]

I have a book on gene tunney with chapte s on g eb , Dempsey and fighte s of that time

[rightsideup]

"Cinderella Man" is a great book.

"Bare Fists" by Bob Mee is a fascinating look at the history of bare knuckle prize fighting from James Figg to John L. Sullivan

I'd also recommend "Smokin'", Joe Frazier's autobiography

and "By George" was a great read....that's George Foreman's autobiography.

Needless to say, "Muhammad Ali" by Thomas Hauser is fantastic

"The Greatest", by Ali himself is a good read.

and "Ghosts of Manila", while a little jaded and biased, does do a good job of taking an in depth look at the culmination of the Ali-Frazier rivalry.


...hope that helped.

facing ali is good as well many opponents cont ibute

[Tom Cruise]

Cheers!

I will look some up when I get to my laptop.

Just done a quick phone search on a few. I like the sound of "in this corner" and "bare fists"