Recommend a boxing book

[revs1227]

the "little book of boxing is great

[The Surgeon]

definently been after that book as well.

tend to avoid Steve Bunce like a virus. He's good for boxing but bad for me, cu nt needs to learn to chill. am guessing it similar to the Guvnor?



Get that Ron Lyle book man its quite uplifting, guys got real mental strength and is nice to everybody, a real hero

I like Buncey but i know many dont and i can see why! Not quite sure about his book tho, i think its part fiction part reality, i read a review that said it was well worth a read. I dunno, no rush to get it anyway!


Yeah i will do, I like Lyle, there was a big article on him and his life now a while back in Boxing Monthly

[*2TOUGH*]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Legality-Box...498314&sr=8-13

The Legality of Boxing: A Punch Drunk Love?

The first book of its kind dedicated to an assessment of the legality of boxing, The Legality of Boxing: A Punch Drunk Love? assesses the legal response to prize fighting and undertakes a current analysis of the status of boxing in both criminal legal theory and practice.

In this book, Anderson exposes boxing’s 'exemption' from contemporary legal and social norms. Reviewing all aspects of boxing - historical, legal, moral, ethical, philosophical, medical, racial and regulatory - he concludes that the supposition that boxing has a (consensual) immunity from the ordinary law of violence, based primarily on its social utility as a recognised sport, is not as robust as is usually assumed.

It:

suggests that the sport is extremely vulnerable to prosecution and might in fact already be illegal under English criminal law outlines the physical and financial exploitation suffered by individual boxers both inside and outside the ring, suggesting that standard boxing contracts are coercive thus illegal and that boxers do not give adequate levels of informed consent to participate advocates a number of fundamental reforms, including possibly that the sport will have to consider banning blows to the head proposes the creation of a national boxing commission in the US and a similar entity in the United Kingdom, which together would attempt to restore the credibility of a sport long know as the red-light district of sports administration.

An excellent book, it is a must read for all those studying sports law, popular culture and the law and jurisprudence.

[The Surgeon]

the "little book of boxing is great

What is it? Like a Boxing Greats type of annual?

The best book like that (if it is like that) ive read is BOXING Bertram Job, its got everything in it, all the usual run down of the greats but it goes into every aspect of the sport like how to wrap ur hands, footwork, promoters and deal making all sorts of stuff

[Chew BackAtacha]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Legality-Box...498314&sr=8-13

The Legality of Boxing: A Punch Drunk Love?

The first book of its kind dedicated to an assessment of the legality of boxing, The Legality of Boxing: A Punch Drunk Love? assesses the legal response to prize fighting and undertakes a current analysis of the status of boxing in both criminal legal theory and practice.

In this book, Anderson exposes boxing’s 'exemption' from contemporary legal and social norms. Reviewing all aspects of boxing - historical, legal, moral, ethical, philosophical, medical, racial and regulatory - he concludes that the supposition that boxing has a (consensual) immunity from the ordinary law of violence, based primarily on its social utility as a recognised sport, is not as robust as is usually assumed.

It:

suggests that the sport is extremely vulnerable to prosecution and might in fact already be illegal under English criminal law outlines the physical and financial exploitation suffered by individual boxers both inside and outside the ring, suggesting that standard boxing contracts are coercive thus illegal and that boxers do not give adequate levels of informed consent to participate advocates a number of fundamental reforms, including possibly that the sport will have to consider banning blows to the head proposes the creation of a national boxing commission in the US and a similar entity in the United Kingdom, which together would attempt to restore the credibility of a sport long know as the red-light district of sports administration.

An excellent book, it is a must read for all those studying sports law, popular culture and the law and jurisprudence.

you make boxing illegal, you send it underground, it'll be 20x worse

end of. people will always fight, its human nature, at least this way they get paid for it

[Toney616]

I read Ghosts of Manilla i while back, it paints a much darker picture of Ali, alot of people dont like it but i thought it was well worth a read and gave a different perspective.

My favourite boxing book.

[The Surgeon]

My favourite boxing book.

Good innit!? Bit different to the usual Ali stuff

[Toney616]

Good innit!? Bit different to the usual Ali stuff

I read it in two days. Mark Kram(rip) was a great writer, I wish he lived long enough to finish his Tyson book

I realised a while back that Alis career has been seriously "whitewashed", with writers leaving out any part of his life they dont like
http://www.boxingscene.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=426704

[IronDanHamza]

I read a book about Sonny Liston a while back i can't remeber the name but the picture on the front was Sonny standing over Floyd Patterson with like red writing i think.

Was a good read, should be able to find it on the internet if you type in 'Sonny Liston books'

[The Surgeon]

I read a book about Sonny Liston a while back i can't remeber the name but the picture on the front was Sonny standing over Floyd Patterson with like red writing i think.

Was a good read, should be able to find it on the internet if you type in 'Sonny Liston books'

Its not Night Train is it?

I was reading about Listons fight with Marty Marshall where he got his jaw broke, Sonny says he dropped Marshall and when he got up he came running at Sonny barking like a dog woof woof woof and Liston couldnt help but laugh and then Bam Marshal tagged him sweet - broken jaw!