Recommend me fiction about boxing, fights in general, and other manly activities.
Recommend me fiction about boxing, fights in general, and other manly activities
Luis Flores
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Leo Anderson
there's nothing manly about damaging your brain
Christopher Sanchez
Classics are still the best. Homer, Virgil, Petronius.
Levi Adams
A Piece of Steak by Jack London is a good short story about boxing.
Nathan Sullivan
>there's nothing manly about damaging your brain
There is no way to avoid it, user?
Even today?
What about those helmets?
Aiden Baker
if you're being serious: no, the head guard doesn't prevent the rattling of your brain in your skull
source: I train, but never spar because I've seen too many cases of people's personalities changing after one hit in the head guard.
Brayden Thompson
I'm writing a novel about a boxer right now, so make this thread again next year and I'll link you it
Joshua Reyes
>never spar because I've seen too many cases of people's personalities changing after one hit in the head guard
Story time?
Such a shame, I thought it's an interesting sport.
Connor Peterson
>e-hentai.org
You’ll never look at the sport the same way again.
Samuel Sanchez
not him but it's a fascinating sport. it's human cock fighting. it's one of the few ways you can legally murder and assault people.
t. vegas user
Ethan White
Wasn't there a great sport-fight scene in the Aeneid?
Evan Brooks
Alexander Barnes
Tough to find without paying through the nose but an entertaining tale from an Italian lowlife made good.
Alexander Phillips
Jack London - The Mexican
also "A Piece of Steak"
Jacob Perez
Hemingway had a couple stories about boxers - The Battler; Fifty Grand and I can’t remember the name of the other one but it was more about the obese whore who loved a real life boxer Stanley Ketchel who got shot to death young by some bimbo’s husband.
Breece DJ Pancake had one called The Scrapper that had a memorable ending.
Scott Wolven had a good one about boxing matches in a lumber camp. Can’t remember the name of it.
Charles Fisher
Ashita no Joe
Kevin Torres
Great short stories on their own but a tad repetitive when read together.
Gabriel Russell
>effeminate lower case reply
>cowardly and defeatist too
fpwp
William Parker
The Sweet Science.
Dempsey's book.
Biographies from boxers you are interested in. Jersey Joe Walcott has a good one. In short, hard work, dedication. Average lit poster has no dog in them, so some boxing might do them good.
Kevin Roberts
I don't know any books about boxing, I just know Ashita no Joe, so if you like manga definitely read this.
Alexander Allen
And, while I'm at it, I really recommend you watch at least hundred good fights on film before bothering with any books. Paper doesn't come close to the film.
I can recommend good fights for starters.
Jack Kelly
Recommend some
Nathan Adams
It’s an incredible sport. It also has an incredible cost and is a little morally dubious to support. But then I think about how many guys in fighting will tell you that they’d be doing worse things on the streets and I get over it.
Colton Sullivan
Not him but
Leonard v Duran
Leonard v Hearns
Leonard v Hagler
Hearns v Hagler
Hagler v Mugabi
Ali v Liston
Ali v Frazier
Ali v Frazier III (Thrilla in Manila)
Ali v Foreman
All three Gatti-Ward fights
Arguello v Pryor
Tapia v Romero
Barrera v Hamed
All three Barrera v Morales
Barrera v McKinney
Morales v Pacquaio
Easton Myers
Andrew Collins
Came to say this.
Also, Mark Kozelek is a better poet than Shakespeare!
Aaron Gutierrez
Salvador Sanchez v Azumah Nelson
Angel Adams
For me it’s
>en.wikipedia.org
Blake Russell
fucking pussies in this board nowadays
Jordan Evans
>gatti-ward fights
good list user I do think fury and wilder series is also worth checking out. It's a bit recent so it's better to start with the classics but it's also quite good.
Jeremiah Hall
The Fight by Norman Mailer. It's not fiction but is written like a novel, it covers The Rumble In the Jungle.
Sebastian Price
It is a very interesting sport, but it comes at a cost
Leo Myers
Blake Campbell
you can still learn muay thai or grappling arts without giving yourself dementia at 45 years old
Carson Allen
Not him but I've seen some dudes that are normally calm and calculating in their fighting style go apeshit and throw caution to wind after they take a good punch. And this is just in sparring when they don't even have a fight scheduled.
Oliver Jackson
based
Lucas Collins
Salvador Sanchez is insane. He's almost mythical with how he solidified his legacy at such a young age and is arguably the greatest Mexican boxer ever. God has a wicked sense of humor.
Hunter Bennett
For me it's bare-knuckle boxing.
Joshua Ross
Post your favorite fight
Jayden Phillips
>muay thai
>my form of retarded cockfighting is better than your's!!!
>grappling arts
Ground hugging fucking sucks.
Alexander King
For me it's rough-and-tumble, the no holds barred fighting practiced by the Scots-Irish of the American South
Jack Collins
Salvador Sanchez arrived and vanished
Only twenty-three with so much speed
Owning the highway
Mexico City gave birth to so many
None quite like him
Sweet warrior
Pure magic matador
Noah Robinson
Always heard Robert E. Howard's boxing stories are pretty good. The steel fisted boxer Sailor Steve Costigan is the only character he wrote with more stories than Conan the Barbarian.
Jose Lewis
About the grubbier aspects of the sport
Carter Cooper
Reading the accounts of the great old bareknuckle fights is a hoot. Sullivan vs Kilrain reads like some anime shit.
Hunter Collins
Stop being a pseud.
John Bennett
what about classic martial arts
how do they manage to seem refined whereas something like boxing seems like more suited to a nog
Parker Thomas
experience it for yourself.
Nathan Rivera
Leonard Gardner - Fat City
Eddie Muller - The Distance
Budd Schulberg - The Harder They Fall
Jace Sullivan
came here to say this, Ashita no Joe isn't a book but it's a really damn good manga worth reading.
Noah Nelson
Seconding this
Luke Perez
fans of competitive boxing encourage nog styles
thats why they always complain about floyd "running away", and worship mike tyson despite him losing all of his biggest fights. boxing fans are literal cavemen. there are refined styles of boxing, but they're considered boring.
Brayden Baker
The Boxer: webtoons.com
Hajime no Ippo: mangainn.net
Jose Wood
>refined styles of boxing
like what don't say mma now
is nog style more effective in a street fight situation or are classic martial arts like jedi reminiscing about a more civilized time
Jordan Thomas
my diary desu
Jackson Lopez
mma isnt a style of boxing
a refined style would be minimal risk taking, aka boring style that isnt popular with cro magnon casual boxing fans
any martial art is effective in a street fight, but I'd say you should learn striking and grappling to be well rounded. something like muay thai with jiu jitsu. sparring in any martial art is what really makes you effective though because just having a calm mind and sharpened reflexes will make you able to handle like 90% of the general pop
also worth noting that a grappling art is less likely to get you sued, as opposed to a striking art when you break someones nose or they slam their head on the ground
Andrew Jenkins
Underrated post.
Ryan Rogers
Hit and don't get hit
If you want to keep sitting on the sofa playing your racing simulator don't judge the ones willing to maneuver in the driver's seat.
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There's only 1 Tyson Fury
Joe & Ippo both solid
Dempsey's book has tried and true fundamentals and fun antiquated dietary advice, great read.
Oscar Wilde has a harsh personal connection with john douglas aka the guy that first made gloves mandatory with the Queensbury rules but yes boxing has amazing stories of people coming from poverty becoming champions and lows of predatory businessmen taking advantage of the sport as a whole
Definitely check out their lists, here's some more bouts you might like for their sensational turn of events:
Mayweather v mosley
Corrales v Castillo 1
Pacquiao v Marquez 4
Fury v Wilder 1
Joshua Gonzalez
I remember doing a school project on oscar wilde and I mentioned that fact user!
David Bailey
You get decent knocks to the head grappling too.It also fucks your joints
t. seasoned BJJ player who sometimes can't raise his right arm above his head