Book Reviews
Gift Card Uses for a Fight Fan: Raw Combat-The Underground World of Mixed Martial Arts By: William Holmes With the adoption of the Unified Rules …
Book Review: “PacMan” by Gary A. Poole
Manny Pacquiao’s rise to superstardom is one of the world’s most unlikely stories. Roger Federer never lived in a cardboard shack. Rafael Nadal’s parents didn’t …
Book Review: Langford, The Greatest Uncrowned Champion by Clay Moyle.
By Tom Donelson Clay Moyle recent biography, Sam Langford: Boxing’s Greates Uncrowned Champion, tells a story of one of boxing’s greatest fighter. It could easily …
Book Review: Sorcery At Caesars
Sorcery At Caesars: Sugar Ray’s Marvelous Fight Inkwater Press 233pp Boxing, perhaps more than any other sport, is fundamentally dramaturgical, an intersection of conflicting epics. …
Book Review: Mitchell Rose Biography
Book Review: Mitchell Rose Biography: “Mike Tyson Tried To Kill My Daddy” By Scoop Malinowski At first glance, most boxing readers would probably bypass the …
Ali Book: The Soul of a Butterfly
By Tom Donelson The Soul Of A Butterflyis not a book about boxing; it is a book about life. Muhammad Ali reflection on his life …
Boxing is My Sanctuary
by John Howard Maybe we need to add a new name to the list of boxing writers out there today. Ted Sares can flat out …
Kindred Spirits
By Scott Wilkerson Sound and Fury: Two Powerful Lives, One Fateful Friendship by Dave Kindred Free Press 368 pp $27 If, in the philosophical economy …
Off the Canvas
by Tom Donelson Tony Petrovic is a boxer, an old boxer. Now 80, what he has left is memories of times gone past and “Off …
Gloves: A Boxing Chronicle
By Scott Wilkerson cscottwilkerson@hotmail.com Book Review: Gloves: A Boxing Chronicle Robert Anasi North Point Press 331 pp $24 If the nature of sport is to …
Bert Sugar ON BOXING
By Scoop Malinowski Bert Randolph Sugar is at it again. One of boxing’s most recognizable personalities has penned his latest book titled “Bert Sugar ON …
Operation Clean-Up, by Charles Jay
By Ron Widelec Earlier this year I had the great pleasure to stumble across a fantastic book titled Operation Clean-Up. I had heard about the …
Viewing Boxing From Ringside
By S. L. Compton Ring Sports Magazine, BoxingInsider.com Writer: Viewing Boxing From Ringside (Writers Club Press, 146 pages, paperback, $14.95) is a newly published collection …
Cleveland Boxing Greats
The following was submitted by Jim Amato: The great city of Cleveland has a rich boxing history and much of that is captured in Jerry …
Bummy Davis and Murder, Inc.
By Mike Greenhill Book Review —- Bummy Davis and Murder, Inc.: The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Mafia and an Ill-Fated Prizefighter The history …
Cut Time: An Education at the Fights
By Scott Wilkerson Cut Time: An Education at the Fights Carlo Rotella Houghton Mifflin $24 222 pp In her masterful study, On Boxing, Joyce Carol …
The Professional – W.C. Heinz
By Scott Wilkerson At a moment when it appears that the entire culture of boxing punditry is clamoring either to defend or to condemn America’s …
More Tales From Ringside
By Scott Wilerson More Tales From Ringside Tom Donelson and Frank Lotierzo iUniverse 191 pp In his classic novel, Tristram Shandy, Laurence Stern instructs that …
Book Review: Frank Maloneys “No Baloney”
By Curtis McCormick. “No Baloney” Most autobiographies emanating from the sport of boxing have been written by fighters. A new book on the marketplace, however, …
