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 of Mixed Martial Arts by many Athletic Commissions in the United States, the sport of …
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 need to “borrow a glass of rice from neighbors and mix it with water to …
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 be argued that Sam Langford was the greatest pound for pound fighter in boxing’s history. …
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. And every fighter becomes, thus, a kind of document of his movement through a mosaic …
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 Mitchell Rose Biography, “Mike Tyson Tried To Kill My Daddy.” But this book might have …
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 co-written with his daughter Hana Yasmeen Ali deals with issues that go beyond boxing. Ali …
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 write about boxing. Prior to the release of his book, Ted, a private investor by …
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 of knowledge, the truest disclosures of the Self are somehow dependent upon those of another, …
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 the Canvas” is author Rusty Rubin attempt to show the changes of America over the …
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 stage metaphoric representations of the human drama, then it follows that boxing is the sport …
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 BOXING.” Here’s what they’re saying about “Bert Sugar ON BOXING.” “Bert Sugar ON BOXING picks …
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 book a few times, but after hearing an interview with the author Charles Jay, on …
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 of articles and musings by Frank Lotierzo and Tom Donelson. The Genesis of this book …
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 Fitch’s book ” Cleveland’s Greatest Fighters Of All Time “. You don’t have to be …
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 of organized crime in America’s 20th century, and in New York City in particular, has …
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 Oates observes: “One of the paradoxes of boxing is that the viewer inhabits a consciousness …
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 last remaining sport, W.C. Heinz’s induction into the hall of fame is decisive proof that …
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 a man’s body and mind are linked like a coat and its lining: rumple the …
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, comes from a refreshingly different viewpoint. Frank Maloney, one of the top boxing managers in …
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