Boxing's Greatest Fighters (2006) by Bert Randolph Sugar
Would be more impressive if the author's mom had named him Burnt instead of Bert.
Describes the 100 greatest boxers of all time.
Includes many of my favorites such as Sugar Ray Leonard, Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Thomas The Hit Man Hearns, and Roberto No Mas Duran.
The Other Sugar Ray, Sugar Ray Robinson.
Two Rockies, Graziano and Marciano.
Gentleman Jim Corbett.
The Boilermaker Jim Jeffries.
The Brown Bomber Joe Louis.
The Manassa Mauler Jack Dempsey. (also includes the other Jack Dempsey, there really were two)
The Raging Bull Jake LaMotta.
Cassius Clay, Joe Frazier, George Foreman, Larry Holmes.
The Real Deal Evander Holyfield.
Roy Jones Jr. and Bernard Hopkins.
The author has a gift for understatement, describing Mike Tyson as a wasted talent.
Sonny Liston? How did he make the list?
The appendix lists the fighters that almost made the elite group, such as Lennox Lewis and Floyd Mayweather Jr. (the latter listed twice).
Floyd Patterson did not make either list.
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