Fighters I wish had books written about them

-KOKid- · Post by **-KOKid-** » 16 Nov 2005, 04:20

As some of you might have notcied, I am a bookworm when it comes to boxing. I have around 100 books on boxing and boxers in my shelf, but still miss plenty.
I would love to see (new) books penned on the following fighters:

- Ezzard Charles
- Joe "Old Bones" Brown
- Matthew Saad Muhammad
- Micky Walker
- Harry Greb
- Kid Chocolate
- Max Baer
- Benny Leonard
- Henry Armstrong
- Holman Williams
- Cocoa Kid
- Joey Giardello
- Kid Gavilan
- Terry McGovern
- Battling Nelson
- Joe Gans
- Panama Al Brown
- Jimmy Carter
- Beau Jack
- Harold Johnson
- Jimmy Bivins

I know there has been books written about some of these guys, but they are hard to find these days and probably should be updated.

-KOKid-

BrocktonBlockbuster49 · Post by **BrocktonBlockbuster49** » 16 Nov 2005, 04:48

jersey joe walcott

barry · Post by **barry** » 16 Nov 2005, 07:18

“Barbados” Joe Walcott

Ad Wolgast

Battling Nelson

Joe Gans

Joe Grim

Bob Satterfield

Ruben Olivares

Tiger Jack Fox

Abe Attell

Jack Blackburn

Danny Lopez

Peter Maher (Matt Donnellon has wrote a couple of good, long articles on Maher and I believe that he is writing a bio for Maher now)

“Mysterious” Billy Smith (He had a good chap-book written about him by, I believe Bill Schutte)

Aurelio Herrera

Beau Jack

Sam Langford (Clay Moyle has written a long bio of Langford, but it hasn’t been published yet.)

George KO Chaney

Jack Dillon

Tommy Gomez (Knockout specialist that was wounded twice, being hit with several bullets, in WWII.)

George Lavigne

Eric Boon

Ike Weir

BrocktonBlockbuster49 · Post by **BrocktonBlockbuster49** » 16 Nov 2005, 08:35

defintley jack blackburn one of my favortie fighters

cybox · Post by **cybox** » 16 Nov 2005, 19:45

Tex Cobb would be an interesting read.

Rory McCloskey · Post by **Rory McCloskey** » 16 Nov 2005, 21:54

Jack "non-pareil" dempsey

dnahar32 · Post by **dnahar32** » 16 Nov 2005, 22:34

Mario D'Agata, bantamweight champion who excelled in boxing despite being a deaf-mute. I would love to read about how he felt about boxing and people's reactions to him.

Rory McCloskey · Post by **Rory McCloskey** » 16 Nov 2005, 22:35

wow a deaf-mute..thats facinating..when did he fight?

dnahar32 · Post by **dnahar32** » 16 Nov 2005, 23:41

Rory McCloskey wrote:wow a deaf-mute..thats facinating..when did he fight?

How quickly we forget that we are posting on a site with more information about more fighters than any other?

Mario D'Agata
http://www.boxrec.com/boxer_display.php?boxer_id=043297

Jaclem · Post by **Jaclem** » 17 Nov 2005, 02:19

..another deaf mute about whom i and some others have written about on this site was eugen "silent" hairston. the boxing crowd called him "dummy" but the announcers and ring magazine and other publications used the more genteel "silent" instead.

BrocktonBlockbuster49 · Post by **BrocktonBlockbuster49** » 17 Nov 2005, 03:26

jaclem i believe i just watched like 5 minutes ago lamottas fight against eugene hairston .

- of course this was a washed up beaten past his prime lamotta, who would soon suffer the only knockdown of his career.

-KOKid- · Post by **-KOKid-** » 17 Nov 2005, 09:43

Hairston was a good fighter. He beat several good fighters during his career, including Kid Gavilan, Laurent Daunthuille and Paul Pender.

For a short while he was a top 5 middleweight as ranked by The Ring.
Outside of Bernard Hopkins and Winky Wright, he had more solid wins than anyone in the middleweight division today.
Probably underrated.

-KOKid-

KOJOE90 · Post by **KOJOE90** » 17 Nov 2005, 13:54

NEON LEON SPINKS

barry · Post by **barry** » 18 Nov 2005, 05:04

>>>wow a deaf-mute..thats facinating..when did he fight?<<<

There have been several deaf-mutes to fight professionally, some were very good, though the names don't come immediately come to mind, but I have read about several!

Ezzard · Post by **Ezzard** » 18 Nov 2005, 07:44

Ezzard Charles and Roberto Duran