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I recently took up an interest in boxing and wanted to read some books about boxers and boxing. Recommend me some good ones

>> No.21608301
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Essential read

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Another good one.

>> No.21608323

>>21608287
What would you recommend?

>> No.21608352

Somebody Up There Likes Me by Rocky Graziano and some ghost writer

The boxing parts were pretty good but I really enjoyed the parts where he was a teenaged hoodlum robbing people, getting sent to juvie and eventually military prison when he wound up getting drafted and punched an officer.
Then he gets into boxing, turns his life around and eventually wins the middleweight championship.
That wasn’t as fun as the criminal parts though.
Tough to find cheap though because it’s out of print

>> No.21608359

Mailer - The Fight
Hazlitt - The Fight
The Human Stain has some good boxing scenes

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This is about the grimier, low pay, no future side of being a not so good boxer. Depressing but probably very true.

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>>21608287
I stopped boxing because I don't want the hits to damage my brain

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>>21608287

>> No.21610351

I'm going to read Non-Compromised Pendulum one of these days.

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This was an interesting read.
Some interviews and some profiles of deceased managers of great fighters.
They had interviews with Angelo Dundee who was corner man for Muhammad Ali and Sugar Ray Leonard. They had a profile of Joe Louis’s corner man who died before the book was written. Ray Arcel (Roberto Furan’s corner man) was one of the funnier ones.

>> No.21610670

>>21610664
*Roberto Duran not Furan

>> No.21610754

>>21608363
How do I become this

>> No.21610756

>>21610754
Watch Andrew Tate videos.

>> No.21610758

>>21608551
I started boxing because i realized I had nothing to lose. My brain hasn't done anything for me up to now, why preserve it? You're in the same boat

>> No.21610760

any boxing books from pre 1900s or even 1800

>> No.21610762

>>21608287
I believe Ring Lardner

>> No.21610798

>>21608287
Raging Bull is a good movie about him

>> No.21610806

>>21608551
aww he doesn't realize he's a frogposter

>> No.21611401

>>21608287
please read pic related and make a thread about it. It's on my "list" but let's be honest I have 500 books on my list and the boxing ones are pretty low but I would happily read a random 4channers take on it. Culkin's videos on YT are original https://youtu.be/unuTEgBEe84

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>>21608551
I started boxing because I want the hits to damage my brain

>> No.21611432

>>21610806
He found the magic number of hits to take, not too much brain damage, just enough to make the world sparkle a little.

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his account of experiencing the Weimar years in Berlin as a young man is reason enough to read.
I devoured this book. I don't box, but the man lived a fascinating life and he recounts it quite circumspectly

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Might not really be what you're looking for at all, but I've heard great things about this.
I'd love a good book about Sugar Ray Robinson, by far my favorite boxer of all time.

By the way, what's everyone's favorite old time boxer?

>> No.21611960

Streetfighter in thr Courtroom
Charles Garry was an amateur boxer who turned into one of the biggest civil rights lawyers in the US
Inspired me to pursuit both strength and knowledge

>> No.21612613

This is actually pretty interesting, any books for beginners?

>> No.21612721

FX Toole - Stories from the Corner. The one that Million Dollar Baby is based off is pretty good

Joyce Carol Oates, On Boxing