sometimes I think I have too much boxing clutter about my house and should get some down the charity shop then you get into something like Mr Mcillvany's book and you realise why you don't!
This is a cracking read, u can go into it at virtually any page cos it's broken down into articles. I don't claim to have read all the books on boxing but this is up there with the best.
Read the section about Johnny Owen yesterday, he sounded incredibly fit, running 9 miles a day and sparring up to 15 rounds, 6 days a week, then on his day off from sparring upping the run to 12 miles...not to mention as gutsy as they come. Made me feel very sad for his parents and family.
Also read a section on Henry Cooper's British Heavyweight exploits and the way Jack Bodell was treated with complete derision by many of the spectators in the capital, and a bit about Jim Watt, whose career I am not old enough to know much about, but would like to.
Would recommend this book to anyone. That's all folks.
NEBF
Mcillvanny on Boxing.
Re: Mcillvanny on Boxing.
Am currently reading it, and am enjoying it tremendously too, I'm only in as far as the Rumble in the Jungle with this one so have plenty of good reading to look forward to.
It's great how many fantastic boxing books are available for our pleasure.
It's great how many fantastic boxing books are available for our pleasure.
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i'm just dipping into it where-ever as the write ups all seem to be only 3 or 4 pages. Read about Donald Curry getting smashed up by Lloyd Honeygan this morning.....makes me wanna get some of this stuff on tapes lol and watch boxing for 10 hours!Srebmun wrote:Am currently reading it, and am enjoying it tremendously too, I'm only in as far as the Rumble in the Jungle with this one so have plenty of good reading to look forward to.
It's great how many fantastic boxing books are available for our pleasure.
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I'm going all 'pugilist specialist' on yo' asses. My copy of 'Boxing - A Cultural History' arrived today. 
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Re: Mcillvanny on Boxing.
don curry is worth checking out.NorthEastBoxingFan wrote:i'm just dipping into it where-ever as the write ups all seem to be only 3 or 4 pages. Read about Donald Curry getting smashed up by Lloyd Honeygan this morning.....makes me wanna get some of this stuff on tapes lol and watch boxing for 10 hours!Srebmun wrote:Am currently reading it, and am enjoying it tremendously too, I'm only in as far as the Rumble in the Jungle with this one so have plenty of good reading to look forward to.
It's great how many fantastic boxing books are available for our pleasure.
should get most of his peak period fights on youtube.
milton mccrory fight is the ideal starter.
Re: Mcillvanny on Boxing.
I have read an incredible amount of boxing books over the years & I rate this book right up there with the best, he gets right in there behind the fights not a round by round screed that we have all read many tines before
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he's obviously a good writer but i don't feel the need to read newspaper articles on eubank and tyson anymore. got the book, appreciated his writing but never ben excited about it.