Boxing Articles

Found this on another forum, a lot of the links are out of date, so thought I'd repost here with the working ones, and hopefully people can add any articles they find interesting. Can't guarantee the safety of all links, so use proper virus protection. For .rar files, use winrar, but beware these can be dangerous when extracting.

Depending on interest, I might try and keep it organised. All links should be working, but let me know if not.

Boxing Technique:
Boxing by Edwin L. Haislet
http://rs85cg.rapidshare.com/#!download|85cg2|33721471|Boxing_by_Edwin_L._Haislet.pdf|14878
The Complete Boxer by Bohun Lynch http://www.archive.org/download/completeboxer00lyncrich/completeboxer00lyncrich.pdf
Boxing and Sparring by E. B. Michel http://rapidshare.com/files/40468972/Boxing_and_Sparring.pdf
Modern Scientific Boxing by Fred Welsh http://rapidshare.com/#!download|42dt|40436422|Modern_Scientific_Boxing.pdf|570
Boxing, A Guide Devoted to the Art of Self Defense by John L. Sullivan http://rapidshare.com/files/40439092/Boxing_Spalding_-_John_L._Sullivan.rar

Auto/Biographies:
My Fighting Life by Georges Carpentier http://www.archive.org/download/myfightinglife00carprich/myfightinglife00carprich.pdf
Life, battles and career of Battling Nelson http://www.archive.org/download/lifebattlescaree00nelsrich/lifebattlescaree00nelsrich.pdf
John L Sullivan http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/4/24/2416390/Sullivan-autobiography-2.pdf

Boxing History:
Bareknuckle:
Pugilistica by Henry Downes Miles
http://www.archive.org/download/pugilisticahisto01mileuoft/pugilisticahisto01mileuoft.pdf
http://www.archive.org/download/pugilisticahisto02mileuoft/pugilisticahisto02mileuoft.pdf
Boxiana by Pierce Egan
http://tinyurl.com/boxianavolume1
http://tinyurl.com/boxianavolume2
http://tinyurl.com/boxianavolume3
Fred Henning - Fights for the Championship - The Men and Their Times
Part 1: http://www.archive.org/details/fightsforchampio01hennuoft
Part 2: http://www.archive.org/details/fightsforchampio02hennuoft

Old Timers
Cocoa Kid:
http://www.thesweetscience.com/news/articles/12155-just-watch-mah-smoke-the-secret-journeys-of-cocoa-kid
http://www.thesweetscience.com/news/articles/12170-just-watch-mah-smoke-part-i-lost-at-sea
http://www.thesweetscience.com/news/articles/12206-just-watch-mah-smoke-part-2-my-ship-is-coming-in
http://www.thesweetscience.com/news/articles/12253-just-watch-mah-smokeq-part-3-the-great-informer

Mixed Bag:
You Gotta Fight Dirty by Fritzie Zivic http://cyberboxingzone.com/boxing/zivic-dirty.pdf
My Greatest Ring Battles By Benny Leonard http://web.archive.org/web/20050204234544/http://www.cyberboxingzone.com/boxing/leonard_sgreatest.pdf
McIlvanney:
Johnny Owen
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/article818085.ece
No Mas
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/osm/story/0,,583597,00.html

Heavyweights:
What It Takes to be Number One - Rocky Marciano http://www.bobdelmonteque.com/images/scan0006.jpg
How I Got and Keep my Fighting Muscles - Jack Dempsey http://rapidshare.com/#!download|48tg|40479370|Jack_Dempsey_-_Fighting_Muscles.pdf|654

Best I've Faced:
Oscar http://www.ringtv.com/blog/1007/de_la_hoya_blog_the_best_i_fought/
Hatton http://ringtv.craveonline.com/blog/127665-best-ive-faced-ricky-hatton
Dundee http://ringtv.craveonline.com/blog/124373-angelo-dundee-the-best-ive-trained
Morales http://ringtv.craveonline.com/blog/124261-erik-morales-best-ive-faced
Toney http://ringtv.craveonline.com/blog/121861-james-toney-the-best-i-faced
Palomino http://ringtv.craveonline.com/blog/125097-carlos-palomino-the-best-i-faced
Mosley http://ringtv.craveonline.com/blog/124327-shane-mosley-best-ive-faced
McCallum http://ringtv.craveonline.com/blog/168053-best-ive-faced-mike-mccallum

Hi Scott,

Good article and hopefully the guys enjoy the links.

Can i just mention now, that we as a board are not responsible for the content of external links so please do be careful when downloading.

Cheers!

KB

Scott,

First up, delighted that you have joined up.

Secondly, this stuff looks to be very interesting. Thanks very much for sharing.

Thanks Scott, will give these a try when i get home

The Henry Downes Miles set is wonderful.

Here's a few more from back in the days of knuckle.

Fred Henning - Fights for the Championship - The Men and Their Times (1902)
volume I
volume II

Frank Louis Dowling - Fistiana; or the Oracle of the Ring (1841 edition)

William Oxberry - Pancratia, or a History of Pugilism (1812)


I bought a print-on-demand version of Boxiana recently on Amazon, cheap as chips and necessary for the collection.

Couple of articles from one of my favourite writers, Hugh McIlvanney:

Johnny Owen
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/article818085.ece

No Mas
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/osm/story/0,,583597,00.html

Cheers Scott, I'll have a look when I get a few minutes to myself/


Rodders

New series on 'The Sweet Science' on the mysterious Cocoa Kid. First 3 parts linked above, will add more if anyone is interested.

Some good articles on there, like the one about the cocoa kid. How times have changed.
On the subject of articles, why do forum users call their posts 'articles'?

Not stictly articles but some interesting documentaries from sky in 96 about the greatest of all time, would have to say i'm fairly impressed by Mcguigans knowledge in them. A lot of previously covered ground is retraced but some posters will be interested to see that Colin Hart backs up some of their assumptions although I personally feel he's a bit harsh and extreme with some of his views. Gutteridge seems overly biased towards some boxers but think they provide a good balance between them.

Greatest British boxer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBM4gJZllVM

Greatest P4P boxer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArB-GoJXpDc

Greatest Heavyweight boxer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbpYPwpJI2I

Had totally forgot about this thread, nice one

Cheers mate will be posting a few up shortly.

Some excellent ones here as well.

Saw a BBC article about George Foreman at the 1968 Olympics earlier so I thought I'd post it here.

It's not the deepest article I've ever seen, as you may expect from the BBC, but I learned a couple of things from it at least.