Can anyone recognise this book?
Can anyone recognise this book?
I am trying to recall a book I once owned. It was a bit like Boxing Babylon by Nigel Collins, there was a lot of content about former champs who had fell on hard times. I remember a chapter about a boxer who was living in poverty and cut his hand trying to open a can of food with his bare hands. Can anyone recall this book at all please?
Re: Can anyone recognise this book?
I get my books mixed up these days but you weren't thinking about In This Corner by Peter Heller?
As an aside if you like that kinda book I'd recommend Tris Dixon's Boxing Wastelands book if you haven't read it. It was much better than I thought it would be having read his book on Mayweather first.
As an aside if you like that kinda book I'd recommend Tris Dixon's Boxing Wastelands book if you haven't read it. It was much better than I thought it would be having read his book on Mayweather first.
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Ilya Muromets
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Re: Can anyone recognise this book?
Boxingnut wrote: ↑08 Jul 2018, 16:24 I am trying to recall a book I once owned. It was a bit like Boxing Babylon by Nigel Collins, there was a lot of content about former champs who had fell on hard times. I remember a chapter about a boxer who was living in poverty and cut his hand trying to open a can of food with his bare hands. Can anyone recall this book at all please?
Don't know the book, but i can show you an easy way to open a can of food with your bare hands!
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Sequitorian
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This Bloody-Mary is the Last Thing I Own? ...
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I remembered it. Boxing confidential by Jim Brady. Anyone remember reading it?
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Thomastearns
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Saw it in the library years ago. Dirt digging material and the cover put me off, so I borrowed Four Kings by George Kimball instead.
Think I made the wrong choice as Kimball's book was very forgettable.