What is the best boxing book?

campionship boxing by jack dempsey it is the best i can think of

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ATLAS by teddy atlas is the most recent good book. shows u what the childhook of most fighters is like. he also tells some cool stories about rooney and Tyson. I enjoyed the book a TON. While a lot of the book is on Atlas's life, he has a very interesting life. I reccomend it.

one of the best books on boxing training i have read was "championship fighting" by jack dempsey. good luck finding that for under $200. "boxing day" is a good book dealing exclusively with jack johnson's title fight against tommy burns. "unforgivable blackness" is pretty detailed as well. at least as interesting is johnson's 1969 autobiography titled "jack johnson is a dandy". "jack dempsey and the roaring '20s" is an informative book on demspsey's life including details on his fights, bits and pieces from his boxing training tutorial, and some good stories as well. there are a lot of books i own or have read that are good. it's hard to think of them all just off the top of my head.

I told you... THE ICEMAN DIARIES!!! :) The Iceman???? :D

I told you... THE ICEMAN DIARIES!!! :)

Did Earnie Shavers ever publish his autobiography? It was supposed to be called "Welcome to the Big Times" or something.

I once won a book called "Muhammad Ali Journey" or something like that. It was a photo book of Ali's career taken by a famous photographer. It was signed by Ali and I had won it on a Radio competition. I sold the book on ebay for about £70. I described it as mint condition, but there was a slight crease on the outer sleave. Only little. The guy emailed to say it wasn't mint as I had described. But I never offered him a refund.

The best, most interesting and most INSIGHTFUL boxing book.. EVER.. is "THE ICEMAN DIARIES" by John Scully. DEFINITELY

If you want to spend some money, Liebling's favorite book was Boxiana by Pierce Egan. Egan wrote during the bare knuckle era. He coined the phrase: "The sweet science of bruising". I saw a copy of Boxiana at Powells in Portland, but it was a bit pricey for me.

The Gloves by Robert Anasi (A great book) The Sweet Science by A.J. Liebling (Liebling is the man) The Hardest Game : McIlvanney on Boxing by Hugh McIlvanney This Bloody Mary Is the Last Thing I Own: A Journey to the End of Boxing by Jonathan Rendall

what about on training

Mike Tyson Story: Bad Intentions I've never heard of it. I'll check it out.

Joe Fraziers autobiograhpy is good. Mils Lane auto is good. Some Ali books are good - i've read a few, couldn't tell you which one was better from memory. Theres this book about trainers I think its called "in this corner" good bood. Bert Sugars older book of 100 best boxers or similar title. I can't recall the name of this one book but it had a lot of info on boixng from the very beggining to todays boxing, the cover had drawing of fighters of the past. Tyson books by Jose Torres, good book, really enjoyed reading this book because you also get to know about Cus Da'mato. Surgar Ray Leonard autobiography was good. Joe Louis autobiograypy was good. Julio Cesar Chavez book was good, didn't have as much info as i would have liked because some knuckle head ripped the pages from the book -it was a library book. Theres other books i've read but forgot which other ones, but view the index and the summory of the book and read a few pages. Thats how I pick a book. Most of the time the books are a good read.

Mike Tyson Story: Bad Intentions

I've been reading Pound For Pound a biography of Sugar Ray Robinson.Also Bert Sugar has some books out.

the ring boxing register great fact book on all the hall of famers thank you

I enjoyed reading "the devil and sonny liston" by nick tosches, its of course a great source of triva for only one fighter gbut its a well written book. I must also say that there is a LOT of trivia on sonny liston... thank you

I enjoyed reading "the devil and sonny liston" by nick tosches, its of course a great source of triva for only one fighter gbut its a well written book. I must also say that there is a LOT of trivia on sonny liston...

the ring boxing register great fact book on all the hall of famers