Boxing books

**Motor City Cobra** · 07-10-2009 07:24 PM

I was interested in getting a biography on the life of Sugar Ray Robinson and Joe Louis. The problem is that most focus on the struggles of black athletes during this period. While i find this interesting I just want a book on there life. Can anyone recomend me a book?
Thanks

**CGM** · 07-11-2009 04:43 PM

Originally Posted by Motor City Cobra

I was interested in getting a biography on the life of Sugar Ray Robinson and Joe Louis. The problem is that most focus on the struggles of black athletes during this period. While i find this interesting I just want a book on there life. Can anyone recomend me a book?
Thanks

Ruben Carter's autobiography was good. It has racial overtones for sure, but not as much as you might think. It was just a down and dirty book. He was a bad ass mofu with a badass upbringing in a badass neighborhood, and he also happened to be black, inasmuch as that fact influenced his experience, it gets discussed.