What is the best boxing book?

[eazy_mas]

what about on training

[galois1]

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

[galois1]

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.

[ICEMAN JOHN SCULLY]

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

[medium-deek]

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.

[Shanus]

Henry Coopers top 100 fighters - great book.

[Piggu]

Did Earnie Shavers ever publish his autobiography?

It was supposed to be called "Welcome to the Big Times" or something.

[ICEMAN JOHN SCULLY]

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

[Piggu]

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

The Iceman????

[j]

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.