whats your top ten boxing reads

[Mowgli]

"Somebody up there likes me" the first boxing book i ever read,Rocky Graziano,its absolutely first class

[Greig]

Carlo Rotella - Cut Time
Teddy Atlas - From the Streets to the Ring
FX O'Toole - Pound for Pound (fiction)
Chris Jones - Falling Hard
Thomas Hauser - A Year in Boxing (any of them but 04 and 05 are particularly good)
Thomas Hauser - The Black Lights
Thomas Hauser - Ali, His Life and Times
W.C Heinze - The Book of Boxing (sports illustrated compendium)
Peter Fitzsimmons - The Ballad of Les Darcy
Louis Wacquant - Body and Soul: Notebook of an apprentice boxer (great book about a white French academic who hooks up with a gym in urban Detroit, trains his ass off and makes it to the Detroit Golden Gloves)
Norman Mailer - The Fight


Thats 11, but they are all good

[jake blackler]

Boxing's hall of shame.....Thomas Myler
The good,the bad and the ugly..Frank Butler
Boxing Babylon..Nigel Collins
Fighting the demons...Lester Ellis story....Robert Drane
Heart Soul Fire...Paul Briggs story...Paul Briggs and Gregor Salmon
King of the world..Ali story... David Remnick
The Hardest game...Hugh McIlvanney
Somebody up there likes me...THE BEST I've also ever read Mowgli.Couldn't put it down and reread it some three months later.
Fammo...Johnny Famechon story...Frank Quill
All of the now defunct Ring Boxing Encyclopedia and Record Books.
As you will be realise three of the above pertain to Australian fighters.There's always something very rewarding in reading of the feats of fellow countrymen.

[Saddo]

Tale of the Gator... true story of a one legged boxer

dosnt get a good reveiw here...

http://www.saddoboxing.com/boxing-bo...locale-us.html

but i liked it

[OumaFan]

I haven't read any boxing biographies or non-fiction books about boxing but there's a fictional book called The Professional which was real good. About a boxer in the 50's and goes through his training camp up to a title fight, a good book.

[Julius Rain]

i have read alot of boxing books my dad collected and left to me .i wanna no if there any i havent read
my top ten would be

larry holmes against the odds
harry greb give him the the angels
teddy atlas bio
ken norton going the distANCE
Earnie shavers welcome to the bigtime
Holyfield the humble warrior
jack dempsey and flame of pure fire
roberto duran hands of stone
joe frazier smokin' joe
sugar ray leonard
aaron pryor flight of the hawk


i like bio's the most ,
currently reading billy coon the pittsburge kid
and carmen basilio the onion picker

(these are all really good reads can you tell me your good reads)

no disrespect but i notice your pic at the bottom of your post and whoever that pretty lady is post exactly like dr. evil and Mini-me it makes me giggle, not like a little girl ok!

[telboy66]

i've read some great boxing books over the years most of which i still have up in the loft ,some of the latest books

unforgiveable blackness, Jack johnson
facing Ali
hands of stone, Roberto Duran
Charlie Magri, champagne charlie
irish thunder micky Ward
teddy atlas
pound for pound, Sugar ray Robinson
When the gloves came off, Billy Walker
i don't believe it but it's true, A year in boxing
mi vida loca, The crazy life of Johnny tapia

all ten I can reccomend to any true boxing fan
I'm just starting My view from the corner By angello dundee & bert Sugar

[Baby-Faced-Assassin]

facing ali is a great book

[chantelle]

i've read some great boxing books over the years most of which i still have up in the loft ,some of the latest books

unforgiveable blackness, Jack johnson
facing Ali
hands of stone, Roberto Duran
Charlie Magri, champagne charlie
irish thunder micky Ward
teddy atlas
pound for pound, Sugar ray Robinson
When the gloves came off, Billy Walker
i don't believe it but it's true, A year in boxing
mi vida loca, The crazy life of Johnny tapia

all ten I can reccomend to any true boxing fan
I'm just starting My view from the corner By angello dundee & bert Sugar

thats a good book most of dundee's book are great reads.

[Cortez The Killer]

Haven't read ten books about boxing myself..

But an excellent fictional story centered around boxing I read was "The Power of One" by the Australian author Bryce Courtenay.

Fantastic book, one that you don't need to be a boxing fan to enjoy, but it certainly helps. It's been a few years since I've read it and would recommend it to anyone looking for an excellent fiction book.

Some reviews:
Amazon.com: The Power of One: A Novel: Books: Bryce Courtenay

[LEGION]

Bilbo told me he loves reading this every night before sleepy time To each his own I guess

Matt & Andrej Koymasky - Famous GLTB - Charles Jones

[Dizaster]

Haven't read ten books about boxing myself..

But an excellent fictional story centered around boxing I read was "The Power of One" by the Australian author Bryce Courtenay.

Fantastic book, one that you don't need to be a boxing fan to enjoy, but it certainly helps. It's been a few years since I've read it and would recommend it to anyone looking for an excellent fiction book.

Some reviews:
Amazon.com: The Power of One: A Novel: Books: Bryce Courtenay

Their is a movie about that book as well by the same name.. It's probably about 15 years old now, but for those that aren't book readers... I've heard the movie did a good job, but it had an extraordinary book to live up to though...

[Greig]

Forgot about this: Facing Tyson by Ted A. Kluck.


Great read, Kluck is really good at getting stuff out of them.

Facing Tyson by Ted Kluck

[DaxxKahn]

There are a lot of good ones out there already mentioned...Facing Ali that telboy mentioned is a great great read....Not only for Ali fans either...You really get a feel on what it was like not to only fight for the world title but fight Ali, At times you would think that fighting Ali himself was a bigger ordeal then fighting for the title...

Another good read is The Prizefighters...A short book about guys trying to break into the game or pull ahead from the club fighter status...Plus it visits some HOF fighters and talk with them after they have retired..

I strongly suggest both

[X]

Some good (and not so good) reads on here ...... but the best boxing book I have ever read is "On Boxing" by Joyce Carol Oates.

Highly recommended.