There's a few really good books out there, and I'm not talking about the new books that are being made nowadays. When I started boxing I tried getting my hands on every book that I could on boxing. One of my first books that I read was Henry Cooper's how-to book, it was essentially for beginners but I found a lot of useful things in what he said. I've read all the new books that teach boxing but most of them are pretty shallow although I still pick up something new in there.

I got Edwin Haislet's book soon after you first mentioned him in your posts. I liked how it all went together, learning the right movement, the punches, and how to deal with those punches. The only parts that I thought were too thin was on ring craft, setting up your opponent, feinting and drawing them in. I realize that this would require a long and drawn out explanation to go over all the different strategies/tactics, and I guess that's up to our own learning experience.

I'm still going over all the boxing manuals that I can find, but the next frontier for me is learning how to watch a fight, and get the most out of it. If you remember the cuban fighter Kid Chocolate, he got a lot of the moves that he'd use from fights that he would watch.

Here's a fun line that I noticed:

Bob Fitzsimmons learning from the boxers of his time, Joe Gans watched Fitzsimmons's fights, Kid Chocolate watches Gans's fights, Ray Robinson (Walker Smith) watches Kid Chocolates fights, Muhammad Ali watches Robinson's fights, Sugar Ray Leonard watched Robinson's and Ali's fights, Roy Jones watches Ray Leonards fights.

Now this isn't the bigger picture but through watching a guy's fights many of these guys incorporated a lot of what they saw. There's so much fighters, so many strategies and moves that you can't even begin to fill an encyclopedia with it, you have to discover them for yourself. That's the connection I wanted to make.