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Post by J-Hop Sun 18 Mar 2012, 7:55 pm

Putting together a list of boxing books

What boxing books are missing from this list

http://www.boxing-articles.com/books/

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Post by Rowley Sun 18 Mar 2012, 8:34 pm

Some favourites of mine in no particular order

Caly Moyle - Sam Langford, Boxing's Greatest Uncrowned Champion

Harry Otty - Charley Burley and the Black Murderers Row

Mike Silver - The Arc Of Boxing

Adam Pollack - The "In the Ring With" series

Joe Laydon - The Last Great Fight

Jack Kavanaugh - Tunney

Adeyinka Makinde - Dick Tiger

Andrew Gallimore - Babyface Goes to Hollywood

Jon Hotten - The Year of the Locust

All of the above are absolutely excellent, you also need to remove No Ordinary Joe from your list, its bobbins.

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Post by J-Hop Sun 18 Mar 2012, 8:39 pm

Im on it. cheers mate

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Post by oxring Sun 18 Mar 2012, 8:56 pm

Giudice's "Hands of Stone - the life and legend of Roberto Duran" is outstanding.

Check the section in the boxing vault on book reviews as well
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Post by Nico the gman Sun 18 Mar 2012, 9:05 pm

Peter Heller - In this corner
You wont be disappointed

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Post by Guest Sun 18 Mar 2012, 9:47 pm

As for Tyson biographies the best is very possibly "A Savage Business" by Richard Hoffer.
Harry Mullen's Encyclopedia is not worthy of being on the list; if you see it in a bargain bin it's worth the punt but otherwise avoid.
I read a great title, "Champion Joe Louis" by Chris Mead, so long ago I've forgotten it all, suspect it's better than the Joe Louis biog on the list;)

Also, check out "Lords of the Ring(The greatest fighters sonce 1950),40 chapters,each one on a boxer, fantastic ,by Peter Arnold and Bob Mee.

Also just dug up "On the Ropes" by Geoffrey Beattie, something of a (very) minor classic; mostly about British boxers, it's very Brendan Ingle centred, I learnt all about Herol Graham and a lot about the young Naseem Hamed.A nicely personal book.

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Post by oxring Sun 18 Mar 2012, 11:12 pm

I've only read segments of it - but Essays on the first Black world champions 1800-1923 is outstanding.

Sadly - its £23 on the kindle!!! So I'm waiting for it to come down in price a bit...
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