Best Boxing Books

[oogiebe]

Fight Doctor - Ferdie Pacheco was a good quick read. Some interesting back stories. I'm sure most of you have already read it, but if not, pick it up.

[semtexreilly]

One punch from the promised land
About Leon and Michael Spinks really good book halfway through it just now,jerry quarry,ron lyle and George chuvalos books really good also

[skanksta]

Charlie Magri - Champagne Charlie - the absolute mutt's nuts.

He said Matthew Barney could do it all in the gym when he trained him

Haha !
Very good book, only spoiled by the author being a bit of a twat, I thought !

McDonnell being modest there - he wrote it.

[Manchester Massive]

Against the Odds - Larry Holmes
The Paddy and the Prince - Naz and Brendan
Born to Fight - Wayne Barker
The Big Fight - Sugar Ray Leonard

[ewenhay]

There's loads of quality boxing books

I liked unforgivable blackness like most
I like the Langford book by Clay?
I liked the Louis v Schmeling one
The one about Dempsey - roaring twenties?
Any of the Donald McRae boxing books
Earlier Hauser books were great.
I also enjoyed Boxing Wastelands by Tris Dixon
Four Kings
The list is quite large.

Boxing has the richest history of good writing of any sport by some distance

[banjo]

Has any one read The Big If: The Life and Death of Johnny Owen? If so, any good?

I noticed it was written by Rick Broadbent who wrote "That Near Death Thing" which is my all time favourite sports book.

[ewenhay]

Has any one read The Big If: The Life and Death of Johnny Owen? If so, any good?

I noticed it was written by Rick Broadbent who wrote "That Near Death Thing" which is my all time favourite sports book.

Yeah I've read it. It's a good but obviously sad read

[TheGoods]

Four Kings and Hugh McIllvaney On Boxing are two masterpieces.

Loved the Michael Gomez and Eamonn Magee books. Also enjoyed Aaron Pryor book and Ma Vida Loca.

Dark Trade also up there with anything ever written about the sport.

Halfway through Henry Wharton’s book. Loved the fighter. Have to say book should have been so much more. Very wooden and two dimensional so far. Gutted.