There are many things the boxing public knows about Alexis Arguello. If you are looking for more, Christian Giudice's book, "Beloved Warrior: The Rise and Fall of Alexis Arguello," delivers it.

The world champion boxer—winner of 29 bouts, collector of 24 knockouts and sufferer of only one defeat, delivered by another elite champion—understands his world. But despite all the baked-in machismo ...

Each year during the holiday season, I publish a list of what I consider to be the best books about boxing. That list, updated to accommodate recently published titles, follows. Taken together, the ...

Boxing fans have become used to the sight of women throwing leather in the ring. The sports chronicles though have still been largely kept by men. The exceptional Joyce Carol Oates offered On Boxing ...

Call it the print version of Boxrec.com with a little more detail. The fifth edition of “The Boxing Register” might be the most comprehensive encyclopedia on boxing ever produced, complete with ...

Like I dare say most people in this business, Marty Corwin, the boxing TV producer who worked for two dons of industry, Don King and “The Bobfather” Bob Arum, for 43 years, didn’t mean to go into ...

1. Fighters absorbing too much punishment begin to resemble their most vulnerable selves, perhaps none more than 118-pound Johnny Owen from Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. The “Merthyr Matchstick” was 24 years ...

To use all the old metaphors, Tris Dixon’s “Damage: The Untold Story of Brain Trauma in Boxing” is a slap in the face, a punch in the gut, a kick in the groin. Given that this remarkable, long-overdue ...

THE PROFESSIONAL (338 pp.)—W. C. Heinz—Harper ($3.95). One of the remarkable facts about U.S. daily journalism is that its most talented practitioners write about games for boys —or, at any rate, ...