Name Every Boxing Book You've Read

[NChristo]

Oh no doubt. I've gone to a gym, but my knees are bad and I just can't keep up with the workout. But I wasn't talking about an instructional book, more just a discussion of techniques and tactics and the like.

Championship Fighting by Jack Dempsey is pretty damn good, tells you about different techniques and stances, what are their advantages / disadvantages and Dempsey's own personal opinion on them.
Wouldn't normally say this but the book is damn hard to find and expensive but their are PDF's that you can download of it on Piratebay and other websites.

A book I forgot to mention is The Devil and Sonny Liston, quite good read.

[musiol]

becoming holyfield only book i have ever read

[I_Am_Legend]

Atlas from the streets to the ring
Becoming Holyfield

[Toney616]

Anyone have any books about the techinical aspects of the sport itself? I mean, I can get through biographies, but I'm way more interested in the actual techniques and skills in boxing than I am about stories I can read anywhere...

http://www.scribd.com/doc/247258/Cha...k-Dempsey-1950

[JAB5239]

Unforgivable Blackness
Joe Louis by Art Rust
Muhammad Ali by Thomas Hauser
Hands of Stone
Irish Thunder the Micky Ward story
Barney Ross by Douglas Century
Charley Burley and the black murderers row
Don King: his life and crimes
Raging Bull
Larry Holmes: against the odds

There might be one or two more but I can't remember at the moment.

I just added Sam Langford by Clay Moyle, Joe Gans and the fearless Harry Greb. Can't wait to read these goldmines!

[JAB5239]

Im about 75 pages into Clay Moyles biography on Sam Langford and it is EXCELLENT so far. I those few short pages I've learned much more about the nature of boxings decisions back than, Langfords fights with Gans and Walcott, and how he came to start fighting to begin with.

[T.Horton]

I have read, and have literally, hundreds of books on boxing and boxers.

Literally.

[TintaBoricua]

Wow You guys are something else. I just got through reading Ali's book by Hauser (His Life and Times). Finished it today and started on monday. Terrific book. I highly recommend it.

I'm going to start reading Don King: His Life and Crimes by Jack Newfield.

I'm also thinking about buying:

Sorcery at Caesar's (Leonard/Hagler)
Four Kings

[GJC]

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I'm also thinking about buying:

Sorcery at Caesar's (Leonard/Hagler)
Four Kings

You'll enjoy both of those.
I posted a few books earlier in this thread try and catch those if you can.

[GJC]

I just added Sam Langford by Clay Moyle, Joe Gans and the fearless Harry Greb. Can't wait to read these goldmines!

Had the Greb book but lent it to someone and never got it back. Fearfully expensive now whenever i've looked at it.