Desert island boxing book?

Evening all,

As there are a lot of knowledgeable and well read boxing fans on these pages, what one boxing related book would you take to read over and over if you were stranded on an island and what helped make your choice?

Cheers in advance.

Viz annual

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Picking one is nigh on impossible but if it could be only one would pick Sam Langford Boxing's Greatest Uncrowned Champion. Solely because it is probably the best boxing book I have ever read. If I could cheat I'd take Adam Pollack's series on the early heavyweight champions because they are all massive and would keep me occupied.

On my own on a desert island..sun,sand,silence and the odd native girl popping over from time to time..Sounds great !!!

Wouldn't take a book though...Would just pop over to Rowley's island and borrow his Pollack series when he'd finished..

Probably something like McIlvanney's book that is a collection of different pieces he's written on boxing. Much easier to dip in and out of an re-read. Budd Schulberg's book, Ringside is good in that respect also.

TRUSSMAN66 wrote:the odd native girl popping over from time to time

A native girl would have to be odd to pop over to your island, Beefcake.

I'd take McIlvanney On Boxing. Best boxing book I have ever read. He is a great writer, one or two articles notwithstanding, and this book effortlessly takes you back to great fights in a series of essays. The man has a talent for telling the story of great fights without too much hyperbole and sentimentality. There are so many fights covered, from Joe Frazier vs. Muhammad Ali, Eusibio Pedvoza vs. Barry McGuigan, Honeyghan vs. Starling and Tyson vs. Bruno been just some of them. You'd never get bored.

Damn your eyes, superfly.

Suck it, Tina!

Suck it Tina...

Is that a book by Mcilvanney...??..

Sounds worth a read..

It's Robin Reid's autobiography. It's rubbish.

TRUSSMAN66 wrote:Suck it Tina...

Is that a book by Mcilvanney...??..

Sounds worth a read..

It is by Jo Trussman. She is talking about her toe.

I'd take mcilvanney on boxing too      

In the Red Corner: A Journey into Cuban Boxing By John Duncan

The story of the greatest amateur boxing nation on earth told against the backdrop of the revolution, culture and politics of Cuba.

A solely sports book would get a bit boring after a while I reckon.

Not much point in stato types taking a book of booking facts as their main goal of showing off their knowledge would be wasted given they would be on their todd.

Probably 'Beyond Glory: Max Schmeling and Joe Louis, And a World on the Brink' by David Margolick. Only read it a few months back, so it's still pretty fresh in my mind, but honestly have never been as impressed across all levels by any boxing book as I was with this one.

Writers' Fighters And Other Sweet Scientists by John Schulian

"No Ordinary Joe" - the screams of anguish after reading one chapter would be enough to alert any ships within 600 miles of me.

DAVE667 wrote:"No Ordinary Joe" - the screams of anguish after reading one chapter would be enough to alert any ships within 600 miles of me.

You set of swimming for shore way before you finished a chapter Dave.

Not If a mermaid came a shore that liked slayer and drank pints

TRUSSMAN66 wrote:Not If a mermaid came a shore that liked slayer and drank pints

SLAAAAYYYYYYEEEERRRRRR

If she liked SLAAAAYYYYYEEEERRRRR she'd likely be a fish supremasist mermaid and would have little interest in Dave, who I assume is not a fish.

superflyweight wrote:If she liked SLAAAAYYYYYEEEERRRRR she'd likely be a fish supremascist mermaid and would have little interest in Dave, who I assume is not a fish.

Leave it out super. I've haddock enough of people picking on Dave.

Not the time or plaice, Tina.

Cod you be more specific?

Oh come on, Chris. Don't clam up on me.

C'mon Tuna, you're just krilling this thread.

I can't help being koi, Tina.

You gotta be squiddin me

Fish is getting silly now.

Bream on, rob.

I've halibut as much as I can hake of this

Tina should apologise for starting this. He's gillty as charged.

Yeah, sorry for ruining the thread, spencer. Hate to see a good article start to flounder.

Especially when good articles have been a bit fin on the ground lately.

I feel bad now, everyone is starting to tench up.

superflyweight wrote:If she liked SLAAAAYYYYYEEEERRRRR she'd likely be a fish supremasist mermaid and would have little interest in Dave, who I assume is not a fish.

I am a COD amongst men!!

My choice of book is 'cyclone: my story' by Barry mcguigan. Having read it, I truly believe but for the Steve Cruz fiasco barracuda been an all time great.

Wish you lot would stop carping on, I can't hake much more.

Get down from your high perch, Fists!

Forgive tino lads, i'm sure he didn't do it on porpoise

I laughed so much at this thread, I think I've pulled a muscle.

88Chris05 wrote:Get down from your high perch, Fists!

EEL never do that

Seen better at the Oyster..

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:I laughed so much at this thread, I think I've pulled a muscle.  

I always did think you needed to visit a brain sturgeon

That's uncalled for, Shah. Go on, on yer pike.

You're all a bunch of shellfish pigs

Trust Dave to trawl the depths and chris you're right, I should apologise to tino, give me a few moments to mullet over.

You're full of bull Shahk

I'm tired of all this, I'm going for a kip.....per.

some good ideas for me for the books though lads. Thanks for your efforts. Nothing on trout though?

Sorry about that mate, I couldn't kelp myself.

This thread does make a change though as the Internet is usually just full of prawn