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I've got a number of books I can suggest.

This one's a great history of the sport in the bare-knuckle era, 19th century sporting culture, and the transition to modern boxing.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Manly-Art-Bare-Knuckle-Fighting/dp/0801476089

Probably the best boxing novel ever written. I can't believe this isn't a movie.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Professional-W-c-Heinz/dp/0306810581

The book that got me into the sport when I sat down to read it at a Borders Books when I was 16. An awesome overview of the history of each weight class with over 400 photos and illustrations.
http://www.amazon.com/AN-Illustrated-History-Of-Boxing/dp/0806522011

An excellent anthology of fiction and newspaper articles.
http://www.amazon.com/At-Fights-American-Writers-Boxing/dp/1598532057

The guy spends a little too much time bashing other martial arts, but it's an excellent read about how boxing is useful in a street fight and old school bare knuckle techniques.
http://www.amazon.com/Championship-Streetfighting-Boxing-Martial-Art/dp/0873649346

A superb series of observations from a woman who has spent her life watching boxing. One of the more literary attempts at explaining the primal appeal of a boxing match.
http://www.amazon.com/On-Boxing-Joyce-Carol-Oates/dp/0060874503

I'm not home and don't have access to my library right now, but let me know if you want a few more. I'd say that any one of those is a great gift for a boxing enthusiast. /u/Choccybizzle is right, Four Kings is awesome, and /u/zombiezs suggestion for The Sweet Science is a good one as well. There's a lot of boxing books out there, but you know your friend so you'll know which of those will appeal to him the most.

IMO, this is a must read for boxing fans... https://www.amazon.com/At-Fights-American-Writers-Boxing/dp/1598532057

> Named a best book of 2011 by the San Francisco Chronicle, At the Fights is a gritty and glittering anthology of the very best writing about boxing. Here are Jack London on the immortal Jack Johnson; Richard Wright on Joe Louis’s historic victory over Max Schmeling; A. J. Liebling’s brilliantly comic portrait of a manager who really identifies with his fighter; Jimmy Cannon on Archie Moore, the greatest fighter of the 1950s; James Baldwin and Gay Talese on Floyd Patterson’s epic fight with Sonny Liston; George Plimpton on Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X; Norman Mailer on the Rumble in the Jungle; Mark Kram on the Thrilla in Manila; Pete Hamill on legendary trainer and manager Cus D’Amato; Mark Kriegel on Oscar De La Hoya; and David Remnick and Joyce Carol Oates on Mike Tyson. National Book Award–winning novelist Colum McCann (Let the Great World Spin) offers a foreword and, in a new preface, John Schulian pays tribute to his co-editor, George Kimball, who lost his battle with cancer in 2011.

So, it's a compilation of stories throughout time from various newspapers, magazines, and snippets from full length books. Features some of the biggest moments in boxing history with some very accomplished writers. It's a great read for both a journalists and boxing fans. I really love how some of them take you back and put you in the moment ringside... or some of the behind the scenes aspects of the fights and fighters/trainers/promoters.

I just this afternoon finished Butler's Kindle Single interview with Mike Tyson, and it's a really great read.

Butler also published a book earlier this year about Guillermo Rigondeaux's journey from Cuba to the U.S., and I also highly recommend reading it.


P.S. Mr. Connor, I enjoy the podcasts, keep up the good work!

This piece is by Carlo Rotella, who is one of my favorite boxing writers out there. His book of boxing essays, "Cut Time," is absolutely excellent and some of the best writing on our sport I've ever read.

I've read this biography of Gene Tunney, which also contains a fair bit on Jack Dempsey and of course, Cinderella Man.

Personally, books about the good old days of boxing interest me far more than any of the modern stuff you see written. It's amazing to see the amount of respect the sport had back then and how boxers were the celebrities of their day. Anyways, I read Cinderella Man first and then Tunney's bio, but if I had to do it again I'd start with Tunney's story because it'll give you a good background on a lot of the fighters mentioned in Cinderella Man.

Got this from A Cuban Boxer's Journey: Guillermo Rigondeaux, from Castro's Traitor to American Champion, which is a pretty good book, but should probably be called My Journey to Write a Book on Rigondeaux as it focuses more on the author's attempts to interview and work with Rigondeaux than it does on Rigondeaux's experiences or fights. It does give some great insight into cuban boxing history too though.

Too be honest though, the author is kind of socially/emotionally ignorant in many of the things he says to people/boxers, like before Rigondeaux's fight against Donaire saying something along the lines of, "The only one who wants to see this fight more than me is your biggest fan and son in Cuba". The son Rigondeaux will probably never see again… things like this will leave you facepalming…

The Las Vegas Boxing Hall of Fame has a video on their Youtube channel of this. It's absolutely clear Gans is better than the smaller man.

https://youtu.be/96xY0eThSGs


A good Gans biograpgy is The Longest Fight

https://www.amazon.com/Longest-Fight-Boxings-American-Champion/dp/0374280975

The statue 10 shots in was used on the cover of "The Pugilist at Rest" by Thom Jones, an amazing collection of short story fiction with some awesome boxing stories.

Maybe it was because I was in high school and could relate to the protagonist more, but I really enjoyed The Berlin Boxing Club. It's a loose backstory to when Max Schmeling saved two Jews during Kristalnacht.

Well the Mary J thing I wondered about too. Marky Mark took some boxing training with Ward at his gym in Lowell. He also attends regularly on the side some boxing matches so Im just going to assume because I saw Denzel, in there who is another avid boxing fan, that Mary J is a boxing fan although Ive never seen her at a match.

Also: is this the doc http://www.amazon.co.uk/Manny-Blu-ray-Pacquiao/dp/B00NWPA44C?

I know Rigo isn't exactly flavour of the month these days but I recommend this book if anyone is interested in his story https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00ID8G848/?coliid=II51JOF27F87B&colid=Q3IUEPQY8EVW&psc=0&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it

At the Fights is a fantastic anthology of 20th century sportswriting, highly recommended

How much do you like him? If he likes Dempsey enough to name his dog after him than this would be a legit gift.


Here's the resonably priced version.

Go and read his autobiography. Actually, don't. Read the reviews for his autobiography on Amazon.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Froch-My-Autobiography-Carl/dp/0091960363/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1419347438&sr=8-1&keywords=CARL+FROCH

Don't get me wrong, I still have immense respect for him as a Boxer.

i read this book recently ** thought it was great

http://www.amazon.com/Big-Fight-Life-Out-Ring/dp/0670022721/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1324284172&sr=1-1

I've read most of this book about Guillermo Rigondeaux and enjoyed it quite a bit.

Ordered the following:

Fat City
by Leonard Gardner

The Fight
by Norman Mailer

The Barfighter
by Ivan G. Goldman
and

The Gloves: A Boxing Chronicle by Robert Anasi

Thanks, guys!

I don't know about documentaries but there are books.


Also here are some other books about the mafia I recommend, because I like books about the Mafia:


Mob Boss: The Life of Little Al D'arco
Chin: The Life and Crimes of Vincent Gigante
Murder Machine (about Roy Demeo and his notorious gang of killers)

Just wanted to give the boxing community over here a heads up on the book I discussed during an AMA which is available for pre-order now on Cuba today via some of the highest profile Cuban athletes on and off the island. You can pick up the book from amazon here: http://www.amazon.com/Cuban-Boxers-Journey-Traitor-Champion-ebook/dp/B00ID8G848/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1392141907&sr=8-1&keywords=brin-jonathan+butler

This is the same as the Haislet book:

http://smile.amazon.com/Boxing-Aviation-Physical-Training-Manuals/dp/1581604572/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1409676233&sr=8-1&keywords=boxing+naval

if you are going to self study, also get this book: navy boxing.

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Jack Dempsey: Explosive punching and aggressive defense

Changed my jab forever.

This is your only argument in the face of lots of other evidence? It's possible that Ali was scared (think he admitted this later) but it's also an established fact that he psyched Liston out - I know it might be difficult for you to comprehend two somewhat contradictory statements but there you go. Unless you're trolling, before you go making inflammatory posts on the internet, I suggest you ahem...'perform some simple research'. You could start here http://www.amazon.com/King-World-Muhammad-Rise-American/dp/0375702296/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1419161307&sr=1-1&keywords=king+of+the+world or here http://www.amazon.com/Muhammad-Ali-His-Life-Times/dp/0671779710/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1419161457&sr=1-1&keywords=hauser+ali