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Boxing Reads....
1) Punches on the page...The best boxing Compilation I've ever read.
2) The Ring Magazine....Can't fuction without it.
3) Boxing Monthly....Need this in my life.
4) Soul of a Butterfly....Goes into the "Spiritual" side of Ali
5) WAR....The story of Nige versus the G man.
6) Legends of Irish Boxing...a great read about our amateurs.
7) Boxing's Greatest...A very large book which was quite possibly the best I've ever read!
Ali, The Life and Times....Thomas Hauser's documentation of Ali's life.
9) Give him to the Angels...Harry Greb's story.
10)Max and Joe...Currently being turned into a movie, this was brilliant writing.


Karas, I find your statement both stereotypical and uninformed.
Do you think it is fair to generalise as you did when there are active fighters like Klitschko and Brock? Two men with phd's....Do you think it is a farir assesment of Juan Diaz? That young fighter is about to finish a degree in law? What about MAB? He dropped his Law Degree in favour of the fistic Arts...
Are you suggesting that fighters such as Georges Carpentier were without any wisdom or knowledge? Even though he was close friends with a number of literary geniuses including George Bernard Shaw?
Poor posting fella.

Nah, I'd say it's generally true though. I certainly wouldn't want to read anything written by any of the boxers who have been listed on this thread as having books... Sure you may think of a rare few exceptions who were intelligent, but I doubt they wrote anything anyways. Think about it, you get punched in the head for 30 years, then in old age decide to write a book? Not quite. They are all by other authours I'd assume, and if they aren't, Like I said, I wouldn't want to read them.