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By far the best boxing book I've read is Dark Trade : Lost in Boxing. He gets to talk to plenty of the top boxers such as Eubank, Benn, Roy Jones but especially James Toney. Easily the most intense book on the sport I've read and I couldn't put it down.
I'm hoping to read An Unforgettable Blackness pretty soon as it won the same sports book award that Dark Trade did.
Facing Ali: 15 Fighters - 15 Stories. by Stephen Brunt.
Great read. Really gives some good insight onto just how many different fighters look at him. Wepner, Chuvalo to Foreman and Frazier, all give their accounts on fighting Ali. Not only gives you insight on Ali, but the fighters. Frazier hates him, but he talks about how tough the guy was inside the ring and how he backed up everything 100%. Foreman goes into depth about just how scared he was to be in Africa and how he had to sleep in an unknown location just to be safe.
It also gives insight onto just how things were done those days. The heavyweight champ could fight anybody he wanted and they would accept. Chuck Wepner got one phone call from Ali's camp, nothing really materialized and he went searching for a fight when about a month later he read in the paper that Ali selected him to fight. Haha, could you imagine Toney find out he was fighting Klitschko in the newspaper?
Probably the best part was the journeyman fighters though. Couldn't remember some of the names if I tried, but some really fascinating stories.
'On Boxing' - Joyce Carol Oates - I would highly recommend this (and I have over 200 books on boxing)
yep , dark trade is amazingQuote:
Originally Posted by enigma
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Originally Posted by cockey cockney
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Same as enigma and poom
Dark trade is a class book. Really makes you think beyond all the glitz and glamour.Trys to answer what draws people into the ring and what is so addictive about boxing.
Also, to all they tyson fans, a must read is TYSON, Nurture of the Beast, by ELLIS CASHMORE. Its a better read than Bad Intentions.
Looks at the underlying social problems influencing his behaviour, couldn't put it down!
for me its gotta be the 16th rnd, any1 read that? 19 years in prison for a crime he didnt commit, great read