Jack Dempsey – Championship fighting (1950)

In 1950, Dempsey authored Championship Fighting: Explosive Punching and Aggressive Defense, a treatise on boxing based on his enthusiasm for the Sweet Science.
The book stresses knockout power as a result of being able to move quickly despite one’s large mass.
Though it is no longer in print, Dempsey’s book became and continues to be the acknowledged textbook in boxing, influencing works like Edwin Haislet and Bruce Lee.