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Best Books on Boxing and Boxers
Best books on boxing and boxers.
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The Fight
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4.04 avg rating — 5,414 ratings
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King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero
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4.26 avg rating — 4,894 ratings
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Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
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4.23 avg rating — 965 ratings
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The Sweet Science
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4.10 avg rating — 1,515 ratings
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Fat City
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3.99 avg rating — 4,713 ratings
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Undisputed Truth: My Autobiography
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4.17 avg rating — 11,001 ratings
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Hands of Stone: The Life and Legend of Roberto Duran
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3.98 avg rating — 528 ratings
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MILLION DOLLAR BABY
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4.09 avg rating — 5,552 ratings
score: 593,
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The Devil and Sonny Liston
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3.84 avg rating — 790 ratings
score: 592,
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Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times
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4.33 avg rating — 1,801 ratings
score: 575,
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Four Kings: The intoxicating and captivating tale of four men who changed the face of boxing from award-winning sports writer George Kimball
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George Kimball (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 1,115 ratings
score: 554,
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The Power of One (The Power of One, #1)
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4.36 avg rating — 93,463 ratings
score: 500,
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Cinderella Man: James J. Braddock, Max Baer, And The Greatest Upset In Boxing History
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4.16 avg rating — 956 ratings
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The Professional
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4.16 avg rating — 1,200 ratings
score: 398,
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On Boxing
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3.89 avg rating — 1,568 ratings
score: 394,
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Dark Trade: Lost in Boxing
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4.49 avg rating — 581 ratings
score: 393,
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A Flame of Pure Fire: Jack Dempsey and the Roaring '20s
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4.15 avg rating — 511 ratings
score: 377,
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The Sixteenth Round
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4.31 avg rating — 1,104 ratings
score: 371,
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Ghosts of Manila: The Fateful Blood Feud Between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier
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3.90 avg rating — 748 ratings
score: 353,
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Ali: A Life
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Jonathan Eig (Goodreads Author)
4.46 avg rating — 3,949 ratings
score: 337,
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Two Ton: One Night, One Fight -Tony Galento v. Joe Louis
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4.07 avg rating — 59 ratings
score: 300,
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DEMPSEY
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4.16 avg rating — 116 ratings
score: 298,
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Sorcery at Caesars: Sugar Ray's Marvelous Fight
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3.84 avg rating — 61 ratings
score: 294,
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Boxing Stories (The Works of Robert E. Howard series)
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4.24 avg rating — 127 ratings
score: 287,
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The Last Great Fight: The Extraordinary Tale of Two Men and How One Fight Changed Their Lives Forever
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Joe Layden (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 338 ratings
score: 283,
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Sugar Ray
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4.19 avg rating — 117 ratings
score: 273,
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3 people voted
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Primo: The Story of `Man Mountain' Carnera
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4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings
score: 272,
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3 people voted
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Raging Bull: My Story
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4.06 avg rating — 510 ratings
score: 268,
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One Punch from the Promised Land: Leon Spinks, Michael Spinks, and the Myth of the Heavyweight Title
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John Florio (Goodreads Author)
4.43 avg rating — 68 ratings
score: 255,
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McIlvanney On Boxing
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4.37 avg rating — 79 ratings
score: 246,
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3 people voted
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The Contender
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3.65 avg rating — 4,714 ratings
score: 200,
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2 people voted
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American Wop - Beaver Buffalo Buttons Brass Boxing and Beer: That's why you're here!
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Jack Tar (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 20 ratings
score: 200,
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Jezebel
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Koko Brown (Goodreads Author)
3.63 avg rating — 155 ratings
score: 200,
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2 people voted
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Rose of Soweto: The Dingaan Thobela Story
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Deon Potgieter (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings
score: 200,
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The Arc of Boxing: The Rise and Decline of the Sweet Science
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3.82 avg rating — 89 ratings
score: 200,
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2 people voted
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China Boy
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3.69 avg rating — 1,213 ratings
score: 198,
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2 people voted
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Pound for Pound
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3.97 avg rating — 357 ratings
score: 198,
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2 people voted
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Boxing's Greatest Fighters
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4.05 avg rating — 60 ratings
score: 197,
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Blood Season: Mike Tyson and the World of Boxing
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3.91 avg rating — 35 ratings
score: 195,
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Sonny Liston -- The Real Story Behind the Ali-Liston Fights
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4.12 avg rating — 120 ratings
score: 195,
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The Ultimate Book of Boxing Lists
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3.96 avg rating — 81 ratings
score: 194,
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Unbeaten: Rocky Marciano's Fight for Perfection in a Crooked World
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4.20 avg rating — 447 ratings
score: 194,
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Off The Ropes: The Ron Lyle Story
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4.25 avg rating — 75 ratings
score: 194,
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The Big Fight: My Life In and Out of the Ring
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3.83 avg rating — 821 ratings
score: 193,
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Ringside: A Treasury of Boxing Reportage
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4.21 avg rating — 80 ratings
score: 193,
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Beloved Warrior: The Rise and Fall of Alexis Argüello
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4.36 avg rating — 44 ratings
score: 193,
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Boxing Day: The Fight That Changed the World
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4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings
score: 191,
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The Iron Man
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3.60 avg rating — 229 ratings
score: 190,
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Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink
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4.01 avg rating — 262 ratings
score: 189,
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The Black Lights: Inside the World of Professional Boxing
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4.33 avg rating — 125 ratings
score: 189,
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A Savage Business: The Comeback and Comedown of Mike Tyson
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3.60 avg rating — 35 ratings
score: 187,
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My View from the Corner: A Life in Boxing
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4.01 avg rating — 221 ratings
score: 186,
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Sunday You Learn How to Box
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3.85 avg rating — 101 ratings
score: 186,
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The Jade Peony
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3.72 avg rating — 5,606 ratings
score: 184,
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The Harder They Fall
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4.19 avg rating — 393 ratings
score: 180,
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The Killings of Stanley Ketchel
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4.24 avg rating — 246 ratings
score: 180,
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Jack Dempsey: The Manassa Mauler
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3.83 avg rating — 53 ratings
score: 180,
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2 people voted
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Sparring with Hemingway: And Other Legends of the Fight Game
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3.88 avg rating — 40 ratings
score: 177,
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2 people voted
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The Book of Boxing
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W.C. Heinz (Editor)
4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
score: 175,
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Muhammad Ali: The Making of an Icon
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4.24 avg rating — 17 ratings
score: 168,
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In This Corner . . . !: Forty-two World Champions Tell Their Stories
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4.17 avg rating — 100 ratings
score: 166,
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The Flight of the Hawk : The Aaron Pryor Story
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4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Jack Johnson, Rebel Sojourner: Boxing in the Shadow of the Global Color Line (Volume 33)
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score: 156,
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The Good Son: The Life of Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini
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3.96 avg rating — 372 ratings
score: 150,
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Richmond Unchained: The Biography of the World's First Black Sporting Superstar
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4.10 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Strong Boy: The Life and Times of John L. Sullivan, America's First Sports Hero
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Christopher Klein (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 220 ratings
score: 148,
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A Man's World: The Double Life of Emile Griffith
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4.40 avg rating — 219 ratings
score: 147,
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The Bittersweet Science: Fifteen Writers in the Gym, in the Corner, and at Ringside
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Carlo Rotella (Editor)
4.38 avg rating — 50 ratings
score: 147,
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Hit Man: The Thomas Hearns Story
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3.89 avg rating — 131 ratings
score: 146,
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A Neutral Corner: Boxing Essays
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4.40 avg rating — 118 ratings
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Golden Boy
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3.71 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Atlas: From the Streets to the Ring: A Son's Struggle to Become a Man
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4.29 avg rating — 678 ratings
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Writers' Fighters and Other Sweet Scientists
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4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Muhammad Ali Reader
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Gerald Early (Editor)
4.12 avg rating — 91 ratings
score: 131,
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At the Fights: American Writers on Boxing
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4.37 avg rating — 186 ratings
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Accidents Never Happen
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David-Matthew Barnes (Goodreads Author)
3.58 avg rating — 24 ratings
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The Greatest Fight of Our Generation: Louis vs. Schmeling
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3.68 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Steve Canton's Tributes, Memories & Observations of the Sweet Science
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The Fights: Photographs
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Charles Hoff (Photographer)
2.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Great Men Die Twice: The Selected Works of Mark Kram
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Mark Kram Jr. (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Lion Within
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P.D. Workman (Goodreads Author)
4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Johann Trollmann and Romani Resistance to the Nazis
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Jud Nirenberg (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Bobby Stitch
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Michael Milardo (Goodreads Author)
4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Leg dich, Zigeuner: Die Geschichte von Johann Trollmann und Tull Harder
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Unbreakable: an Autobiography
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A Cuban Boxer's Journey: Guillermo Rigondeaux, from Castro's Traitor to American Champion
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Reach!: Finding Strength, Spirit, and Personal Power
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The Unexpected Warrior (Ace Stone, #1)
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4.54 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Tales from the 5th Street Gym: Ali, the Dundees, and Miami's Golden Age of Boxing
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FISTOFMANIA: The Tale Of Isa Ali The Aboriginal Superhero Boxer Vol. 1
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Beast
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Chris Speck (Goodreads Author)
4.57 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Bundini: Don't Believe The Hype
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Todd D. Snyder (Goodreads Author)
4.36 avg rating — 80 ratings
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The Murder of Sonny Liston: Las Vegas, Heroin, and Heavyweights
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Shaun Assael (Goodreads Author)
3.59 avg rating — 543 ratings
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Tom Cribb: The Life of the Black Diamond
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Warrior: (Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Sports Book Awards 2023)
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Home Before Dark
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Rope Burns
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Wiped Out?: The Jerome Wilson Story
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The Boxer: The True Story of Holocaust Survivor Harry Haft
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Hunger in America
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David Allan Cates (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings
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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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How to Vote
To vote on existing books from the list, beside each book there is a link vote for this book clicking it will add that book to your votes.
To vote on books not in the list or books you couldn't find in the list, you can click on the tab add books to this list and then choose from your books, or simply search.
