Jim Lampley, Thomas Hauser, and more
In the acknowledgements to his revelatory memoir – It Happened: A Uniquely Lucky Life in Sports Television – Jim Lampley thanked journalist Thomas Hauser, who Lampley…
Downbeach Book nOW Features Boxing
MSC Publishing is proud to announce the publication of DOWNBEACH, the debut novel fromlongtime boxing writer Matt Overs. DOWNBEACH debuted…
Book Review: Norman Mailer. Neil Leifer. Howard L. Bingham. The Fight
By Stephanie Kent Nearly fifty years after Muhammad Ali and George Foreman met in Kinshasa, Zaire, Taschen pays homage to…
Book Review: Revelation: An Apocalypse in Fifty-Eight Fights by Andrew Rihn
In a sea of ghost-written fight memoirs and tweets with poor grammar, truly beautiful boxing writing is a treat. Andrew…
Book Review: Championship Fighting: Explosive Punching and Aggressive Defense by Jack Dempsey
By: Stephanie Kent No matter the greatness of the teacher, no one can learn boxing from a book. Deep in…
Book Review: The Fight by Norman Mailer
By: Stephanie Kent In The Fight, we follow Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Norman Mailer during the suspenseful weeks leading up to…
Fight Lit Book Review: Fighter by Andy Lee
By: Stephanie Kent Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/Fighter-Andy-Lee/dp/0717183440 Book Review: Fighter by Andy Lee When Andy Lee announced his retirement in early…
Cruiserweight Josh Himes Aims To “Empower The Everyday Fighter” Among Us
Cruiserweight Josh Himes Aims To “Empower The Everyday Fighter” Among Us By: Sean Crose “Taking it easy,” says cruiserweight Josh…
A Revealing Boxing Tale: The Violent, Graceful Life of Ezzard Charles
By Ivan G. Goldman When you get disgusted with the four quarreling alphabet groups that control the major belts, it’s…
Book Review: Raw Combat – The Underground World of Mixed Martial Arts
Gift Card Uses for a Fight Fan: Raw Combat-The Underground World of Mixed Martial Arts By: William Holmes With the…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
Boxing is My Sanctuary
by John Howard Maybe we need to add a new name to the list of boxing writers out there today.…
Kindred Spirits
By Scott Wilkerson Sound and Fury: Two Powerful Lives, One Fateful Friendship by Dave Kindred Free Press 368 pp $27…
Off the Canvas
by Tom Donelson Tony Petrovic is a boxer, an old boxer. Now 80, what he has left is memories of…
Gloves: A Boxing Chronicle
By Scott Wilkerson [email protected] Book Review: Gloves: A Boxing Chronicle Robert Anasi North Point Press 331 pp $24 If 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)…
Cleveland Boxing Greats
The following was submitted by Jim Amato: The great city of Cleveland has a rich boxing history and much of…
Bummy Davis and Murder, Inc.
By Mike Greenhill Book Review —- Bummy Davis and Murder, Inc.: The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Mafia and…
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…
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…
More Tales From Ringside
By Scott Wilerson More Tales From Ringside Tom Donelson and Frank Lotierzo iUniverse 191 pp In his classic novel, Tristram…
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…