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Best Books on Boxing and Boxers
Best books on boxing and boxers.
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Looking For A Fight
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Fight Pictures: A History of Boxing and Early Cinema
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3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Irish Thunder: The Hard Life & Times of Micky Ward
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4.01 avg rating — 357 ratings
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A Nation's Hope: The Story of Boxing Legend Joe Louis
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4.07 avg rating — 1,199 ratings
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Boxing: Photographs
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4.38 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Boxing Register: International Boxing Hall of Fame Official Record Book
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4.24 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Sting Like a Bee: Muhammad Ali vs. the United States of America, 1966-1971
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3.80 avg rating — 186 ratings
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Macho Time: The Meteoric Rise and Tragic Fall of Hector Camacho
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4.28 avg rating — 74 ratings
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War, Baby: The Glamour of Violence
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4.13 avg rating — 112 ratings
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John L. Sullivan and His America
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4.14 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Dempsey and the Wild Bull: The Four Minute Fight of the Century
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3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Muhammad Ali: Unfiltered
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4.49 avg rating — 51 ratings
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One Ring Circus: Dispatches from the World of Boxing
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3.97 avg rating — 86 ratings
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Sound and Fury: Two Powerful Lives, One Fateful Friendship
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3.98 avg rating — 202 ratings
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Journeymen: The Other Side of the Boxing Business, a New Perspective on the Noble Art
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4.21 avg rating — 110 ratings
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Muhammad Ali
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3.92 avg rating — 242 ratings
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Waterfront Fists and Others: The Collected Fight Stories of Robert E. Howard
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4.30 avg rating — 61 ratings
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America on the Ropes: A Pictorial History of the Johnson-Jeffries Fight
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Ali vs. Inoki: The Forgotten Fight That Inspired Mixed Martial Arts and Launched Sports Entertainment
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3.71 avg rating — 177 ratings
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Heroes Without a Country: America's Betrayal of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens
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4.25 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Fearless Freddie: The Life and Times of Freddie Mills
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3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey
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4.23 avg rating — 2,177 ratings
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King of the Canebrakes
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Lando (The Sacketts, #7)
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4.03 avg rating — 5,781 ratings
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The Hardest Game : McIlvanney on Boxing
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4.22 avg rating — 32 ratings
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The Complete Muhammad Ali
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3.78 avg rating — 23 ratings
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The Game
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3.72 avg rating — 1,687 ratings
score: 91,
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Rocky Marciano: The Rock of His Times
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3.84 avg rating — 83 ratings
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Sam Langford: Boxing's Greatest Uncrowned Champion
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4.45 avg rating — 58 ratings
score: 91,
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The Greatest: My Own Story
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4.26 avg rating — 1,545 ratings
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Joe Louis, My Life
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4.20 avg rating — 46 ratings
score: 90,
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In The Red Corner
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4.25 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Sweet William: The Life of Billy Conn
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Lonsdale's Belt: Boxing's Most Coveted Prize
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Running with the Champ: My Forty-Year Friendship with Muhammad Ali
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3.86 avg rating — 50 ratings
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| 136 |
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Serenity: A Boxing Memoir
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3.90 avg rating — 79 ratings
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Hurricane: the life of Rubin Carter, fighter
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4.02 avg rating — 651 ratings
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In the Ring with Bob Fitzsimmons
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The Belt Boy
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4.24 avg rating — 46 ratings
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| 136 |
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Approaching Ali: A Reclamation in Three Acts
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Davis Miller (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 133 ratings
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In Sunshine or in Shadow
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4.54 avg rating — 378 ratings
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In Black and White : The Untold Story of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens
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4.40 avg rating — 140 ratings
score: 88,
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Smokin' Joe: The Autobiography of a Heavyweight Champion of the World, Smokin' Joe Frazier
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3.96 avg rating — 265 ratings
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The Greatest: Muhammad Ali
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4.14 avg rating — 1,600 ratings
score: 86,
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Ted Kid Lewis: His Life and Times
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3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Superman Vs. Muhammad Ali
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3.77 avg rating — 701 ratings
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Tunney Tunney
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4.29 avg rating — 177 ratings
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Standing Eight: The Inspiring Story of Jesus "El Matador" Chavez
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3.51 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Superman vs. Muhammad Ali
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3.77 avg rating — 701 ratings
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The Onion Picker
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Gary Youmans (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 31 ratings
score: 83,
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Rocky Marciano
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Champion: Joe Louis, Black Hero in a White World
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3.78 avg rating — 27 ratings
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The Fight That Started the Movies: The World Heavyweight Championship, the Birth of Cinema and the First Feature Film
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Samuel Hawley (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Black is Best: The Riddle of Cassius Clay
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3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Ring of Hate: Joe Louis Vs. Max Schmeling: The Fight of the Century
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3.89 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Only in America: The Life and Crimes of Don King
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4.06 avg rating — 208 ratings
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Fire and Fear: The Inside Story of Mike Tyson
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3.51 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Papa Jack: Jack Johnson And The Era Of White Hopes
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3.88 avg rating — 76 ratings
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The Prizefighter and the Playwright: Gene Tunney and George Bernard Shaw
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4.21 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Falling Hard: A Rookie's Year in Boxing
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4.07 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Greatest Boxing Stories Ever Told: Thirty-Six Incredible Tales From The Ring, First Edition: Thirty-Six Incredible Tales From The Ring
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3.99 avg rating — 95 ratings
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PacMan: Behind the Scenes with Manny Pacquiao--the Greatest Pound-for-Pound Fighter in the World
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3.81 avg rating — 135 ratings
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Ray Arcel: A Boxing Biography
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4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings
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My Life Story
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The Lion and the Eagle
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Iain Manson (Goodreads Author)
3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Mike Tyson: The Release of Power
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Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson
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3.93 avg rating — 187 ratings
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Mi Vida Loca: The Crazy Life of Johnny Tapia
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Shelby's Folly: Jack Dempsey, Doc Kearns, and the Shakedown of a Montana Boomtown
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4.11 avg rating — 27 ratings
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At the Fights: Inside the World of Professional Boxing
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Kostya - My Story
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Ali and Liston: The Boy Who Would Be King and the Ugly Bear
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Jack Doyle: The Gorgeous Gael
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James J. Corbett: A Biography of the Heavyweight Boxing Champion and Popular Theater Headliner
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The Longest Fight: In the Ring with Joe Gans, Boxing's First African American Champion
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Gene Tunney
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Pocket Rocket: The Fighter Who Never Quit-The Wayne McCullough Story
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In the Ring with Marvin Hart
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Dick Tiger: The Life And Times of a Boxing Immortal
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3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
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John L. Sullivan: The Career of the First Gloved Heavyweight Champion
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Dark Destroyer
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In the Ring with James J. Jeffries
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Dancing Shoes Is Dead
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In the Ring with Tommy Burns
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When Dempsey Fought Tunney: Heroes Hokem Storytelling Jazz Age
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In the Ring with James J. Corbett
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Chaos, Corruption, Courage And Glory: A Year In Boxing
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In the Ring With Jack Johnson - Part I: The Rise
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In the Ring With Jack Johnson - Part II: The Reign
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Larry Holmes: Against the Odds
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Fighters: The Lives and Sad Deaths of Freddie Mills and Randolph Turpin
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Joe Louis: Hard Times Man
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Redemption Song: Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties
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Heavy Justice: The Trial of Mike Tyson
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Bouts of Mania: Ali, Frazier, and Foreman--and an America on the Ropes
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Gloves off: The Joe Louis story
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Classic Boxing Stories
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Paul D. Staudohar (Editor)
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Gentleman Jim Corbett: The Truth Behind a Boxing Legend
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The Great Prize Fight
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Mission Impossible
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Just finished the Mike Tyson autobiography, i found it really deep on his feelings, but reading Unforgievable blackness on Jack Johnson was a very nice surprise, he had a really interesting life on hard times.
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Unforgivable Blackness is a great book. Read the book on Sam Langford.
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