Best boxing books.....

Budd Schulberg has some great essays about boxing, from the era of Sugar Ray up until quite recently. Check out a compilation, like this one: http://www.amazon.com/Ringside-Treasury-Reportage-Budd-Schulberg/dp/156663749X/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224001362&sr=1-6

If we're being serious, "Championship Fighting" by Jack Dempsey, and handily.

Thanks for the list mate, looks like there is some good books there. Anytime my friend.

Mi vida loca by Johnny Tapia, great read. Will check out some of the ones you guys posted, great. That another on my 'to read' list.

I second the Teddy Atlas book recommendatioin third.. .................

Hands of Stone is ace. Ghost of Manilla....is a weird read. Intersting in a way to see a different opinion of Ali, but the writer comes across as pretty mean spirited and hateful. c-sign ................

http://www.amazon.com/25-Must-Have-Boxing-Books/lm/3PEB0C5J64259 I don't know if it would be worth it with the shipping, but here is a link where you can get some good books cheap, and all in excellent condition. If nothing else it'll make a good reference list. Thanks for the list mate, looks like there is some good books there.

I second the Teddy Atlas book recommendatioin

Cut Time, by Carlo Rotella. Pick up some of Thomas Hauser's compilations, too. I've got "Muhammed Ali: His life and times", but haven't read it yet. Heard it was excellent though.

Mi vida loca by Johnny Tapia, great read. Will check out some of the ones you guys posted, great.

Cut Time, by Carlo Rotella. Pick up some of Thomas Hauser's compilations, too.

It was Jake LaMotta's life outside the ring that i enjoyed reading, he lived a very tough life. 'Unforgiveable blackness' is on my 'to read' list, Don Kings book also sounds interesting, id never heard of it before. Also wouldnt mind reading 'Hands of stone' and Freddy Atlas's book. http://www.amazon.com/25-Must-Have-Boxing-Books/lm/3PEB0C5J64259 I don't know if it would be worth it with the shipping, but here is a link where you can get some good books cheap, and all in excellent condition. If nothing else it'll make a good reference list.

I read Raging Bull and thought it was ok, but nothing to write home about. Being a huge Joe Louis fan, I really enjoyed his autobiography. Unforgivable blackness was an excellent read and very insightful. Im curruntly reading Larry Holmes autobiography and am enjoying it. But the best boxing book I've read so far was the life and crimes of Don King. King may be one of the most brilliant peices of shit ever. The man was a devious boxing gunius. It was Jake LaMotta's life outside the ring that i enjoyed reading, he lived a very tough life. 'Unforgiveable blackness' is on my 'to read' list, Don Kings book also sounds interesting, id never heard of it before. Also wouldnt mind reading 'Hands of stone' and Freddy Atlas's book.

Just finished these 2 , i highly recommend them; Raging Bull : Jake LaMotta My Story http://www.play.com/Books/Books/4-/400028/Raging-Bull/Product.html Four Kings : George Kimball http://www.play.com/Books/Books/4-/5322369/-/Product.html?searchstring=four+kings+hagler&searchsource=0 I read Raging Bull and thought it was ok, but nothing to write home about. Being a huge Joe Louis fan, I really enjoyed his autobiography. Unforgivable blackness was an excellent read and very insightful. Im curruntly reading Larry Holmes autobiography and am enjoying it. But the best boxing book I've read so far was the life and crimes of Don King. King may be one of the most brilliant peices of shit ever. The man was a devious boxing gunius.

Just finished these 2 , i highly recommend them; Raging Bull : Jake LaMotta My Story http://www.play.com/Books/Books/4-/400028/Raging-Bull/Product.html Four Kings : George Kimball http://www.play.com/Books/Books/4-/5322369/-/Product.html?searchstring=four+kings+hagler&searchsource=0

Dark Trade by Donald McRae is the best boxing book I've ever read. Also worth a look is The Fight, by Norman Mailer. Good choice. Atlas: From the Streets to the Ring: A Son's Struggle to Become a Man. http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/519CXv1Hh0L._SS500_.jpg I just finished reading this book. Highly recommended. Teddy was a nut. You can read about his struggles as a youth, with Tyson, his issues with Cus D'amato, how he almost blew Donny Lalonde's brains out. My favorite chapters were his love/hate relationship with Michael Moorer, a prime example of how fragile a fighters mind can be, even being heavyweight champ of the world.

nice jack dempsey is one of my favourties!! can someone upload these boxing E-books? This about the original Dempsey...not the HW champ

Also, not sure if your into this stuff, but check out... Perfect in Their Art: Poems on Boxing from Homer to Ali My favorite.... Far out in the wilds of Oregon, On a lonely mountainside, Where Columbia’s mighty waters Roll down to the ocean side; Where the giant fir and cedar Are imaged in the wave, O’ergrown with firs and lichens, I found Jack Dempsey’s grave. O Fame, why sleeps thy favored son In wilds, in woods, in weeds, And shall he ever thus sleep on, Interred his valiant deeds. ‘Tis strange New York should thus forget Its “bravest of the brave” And in the fields of Oregon, Unmarked leave Dempsey’s grave. nice jack dempsey is one of my favourties!! can someone upload these boxing E-books?

Also, not sure if your into this stuff, but check out... Perfect in Their Art: Poems on Boxing from Homer to Ali My favorite.... Far out in the wilds of Oregon, On a lonely mountainside, Where Columbia’s mighty waters Roll down to the ocean side; Where the giant fir and cedar Are imaged in the wave, O’ergrown with firs and lichens, I found Jack Dempsey’s grave. O Fame, why sleeps thy favored son In wilds, in woods, in weeds, And shall he ever thus sleep on, Interred his valiant deeds. ‘Tis strange New York should thus forget Its “bravest of the brave” And in the fields of Oregon, Unmarked leave Dempsey’s grave.

fighters story! Although not about one fighter in particular, this is one of my favorties: The Greatest Boxing Stories Ever Told: Thirty-Six Incredible Tales from the Ring