Recommended boxing books

[Ade L]

1. The Good Son (Ray Mancini's biography)
2. The Big If (Johnny Owen)
3. Irish Thunder: The Hard Life and Times of Micky Ward
4. Man of Courage: Life and Career of Tommy Farr
5. Sorcery at Caesars: Sugar Ray's Marvelous Fight

Just a few good ones that came to mind....

[gilgamesh]

I personally enjoy Punch Lines by Phil Berger. I've checked it out from the Library twice

[ImranSarwar]

King of the Canebreaks LIFE (and death) Story of William (Young) Stribling. [Only his title fight with Max Schmelling was he ever "stopped". 290, 300 fights? The Title match their were only seconds remaining in 15TH & last r.]

[writehooks]

Chuvalo: A fighter's life (by George Chuvalo & Murray Greig)
Harper-Collins Canada, 2013

[ImranSarwar]

Chuvalo: A fighter's life (by George Chuvalo & Murray Greig)
Harper-Collins Canada, 2013

Jerry Quarry Foundation -letters- I wrote George up too, recent (brief next to any book).

[Keko]

Jersey Joe Walcott a boxing biography- James Curl

Boxing lists- Bert Sugar and Teddy Atlas

[milpool]

Years of the Locust - John Hotten
King of the World - David Remnick
This Bloody Mary is the Last Thing I Own - Jonathan Rendall
I enjoyed the Jake La Motta autobiography, Raging Bull. However, after reading the Vikki LaMotta story, it seems that Jake's book is more fiction than fact. I'd still recommend it though.

[klompton]

Schmelings autobiography is great.

The problem with Raging Bull that milpool alluded to wasnt so much that it was fiction but that Pete Savage, who was one of Jakes friends and a former stablemate had been the driving force behind jake writing that book and he used influence in the project to interject himself into the story to such a degree that he never had been. Raging Bull is mostly true but you can basically replace Pete with Joey LaMotta, which is what the movie did to give a more accurate portrayal. With that said I dont know how much faith Id put in Vikkis story. She was no angel herself and there were several parts of her story that you could see she was struggling to justify her actions.

[montrealsuper]

Heavyweight Armageddon: The Tyson Lewis Championship Battle - scoop malinowski ----- Jack Dempsey A Flame of Pure Fire roger kahn ----- Big George --- Paquiao ----- Jack Johnson autobiography --- Rocky marciano by Everett Skehan ---- Sam Langford by clay moyle