Books about Boxing
by www.houseofboxing.comIf you want to pick up some water-cooler conversation fodder about boxing then you might consider the following books to get your knowledge base at a training level equal to the marks of greatness you’ll be talking about!The Greatest Boxing Stories Ever Told: Thirty-Six Incredible Tales from the Ring (Jeff Silverman) delivers an awesome collection on the subject of boxing and also chronicles the larger human issues the sport has come to symbolize. This 368 page book is ideal reading for fight fans and is considered as the “definitive volume” of short stories on the sport.Boxing: A Cultural History (Kasia Boddy) casts new lighton the sport and its struggle for dominance in the sports arena. The whopping 480 page book is said to be witty and thought-provoking with wonderful illustrations. One reviewer wrote that it is “the most thorough, entertaining, and informative book on boxing” seen.The Life and Crimes of Don King: The Shame of Boxing in America (Jack Newfield) is an unauthorized biography of boxing kingpin Don King and the source of the Emmy-winning film starring Ving Rhames. King worked his way out of a life of street crime (and served jail time for manslaughter), but rose to become the powerhouse in the game of fighting. The 344 pages are said to be “meticulously researched” and “one of the best sports books” around.Sorcery at Caesars: Sugar Ray’s Marvelous Fight (Steve Marantz) is 256 pages based on the night of April 6, 1987 when Sugar Ray Leonard stole the fight from Marvelous Marvin Hagler and over a million witnesses watched him as he did it. What’s nice about this book is that the back story is as compelling as the actual fight, and the author is said to have spared “no detail” in inviting the reader into the true inside story of this great fight.