‘The Greatest Boxing Stories Ever Told – Thirty-six Incredible Tales from the Ring’, edited by Jeff Silverman, is yet another anthology of essays to add to your already groaning book shelves.
As with all ‘greatest’ of ‘best of’ collections, if you buy enough of them there are bound to be overlaps and you’ll find the odd essay or article popping up in every book of its kind. That being said, there’s enough variety in here to make it worthwhile getting hold of.
The collection opens with In the Face by Richard Ford, which is a gripping, honest and uncomfortable admission by the author of how addictive the feeling of punching someone in the face can be. I also really enjoyed Heywood Broun’s Sport for Art’s Sake, and have been unsuccessfully trying since to get hold of more of his writing.
Writers on Boxing 
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