Ring Magazine Ending.

I was one of them
I wanted a bullworker but couldn't afford one so got a spendy instead which was just a coiled spring.............nowt happened there either

 

I’ve just off loaded a bull worker I’ve had since the seventies to a charity shop!
I think I used it for about a fortnight and it ended up in the cupboard gathering cobwebs.

 

I bought my first issue as a teenager in 1979 on a trip to the beach with the family. The August issue. They had a magazine rack in the grocery store and I grabbed it.

Cover story: Fights You Want to See. IIRC, the cover story looked at the likelihood of those happening and how they’d come out — Muhammad Ali vs. Larry Holmes, Pipino Cuevas vs. Roberto Duran, Victor Galindez vs. Matt Franklin, Hugo Corro vs. Marvin Hagler, Wilfred Benitez vs. Ray Leonard and Danny Lopez vs. Wilfredo Gomez.

EDIT: Forgot to add link to the cover image I found online: https://www.ebay.com/itm/THE-RING-M...6-fa52-472f-bc69-0c8fdb4f7e70&redirect=mobile

What really hooked me were the tiny-type reports of fights from correspondents around the world. It was like, ‘OMG all this is going on, who are these guys, I want more of this.’ Within probably a year I was buying each issue (and then KO and others) every month. A collection that sadly was disposed of decades ago, I forget how.

I will miss The Ring. I hope they at least keep doing the special issues a few times a year where they do the career retrospectives on fighters. I bought the Larry Holmes one this year online and it’s fantastic.

RIP RING.

 

I haven’t seen a copy of ring sold anywhere near me in years. But back in the 80s and early 90s I purchased them regularly. Miss the good ole’ days

 

On topic, one of my fav Ring front covers showed Johnson ( hands on hips ) and Jeffries arms by his side ( looking huge, and very strong ) with the caption reading " The title fight that shook the world " in glorious colour, and it was around 1969.
As for BN the front page had a picture of Bad Bennie in gym gear, wraps on hands, sitting on a stool in front of a piano ( don't ask ) the headline read " The fighter who trades in fear " how apt. memories........
stay safe guys.

 

Used to read ring mag religiously since I was a kid, but I stopped renewing my subscriptions about ten years ago at the height of Mayweather Pacquiao hysteria because they were just becoming too biased and turning into propoganda.

I always favored KO mag too.

 

I subscribed to Boxing News, the Brit weekly, for about a year. Well worth it even though it came to like two weeks later than publication due to overseas shipping.

My favorite subscription ever was to Tonight’s Boxing Program, a product of Malcolm “Flash” Gordon, a kinda seedy-looking (by reputation) shadowy figure who is most noted for blowing open the U.S. Boxing Tournament’s rigged rankings that ABC, Don King and The Ring partnered on. My subscription was a few years later but Flash had the best boxing schedule around at that time (looking months ahead) where if the opponent to the ‘name’ or ‘house’ fighter wasn’t known yet he had colorful fill-in names like Dusty Trunks, Ben Dover, Izzy Tanking and Willie Dive, haha. Also he called the two main alphabet organizations the WBArum and the WBKing.

RIP Malcolm.

 

Yes, Betamax was the better tech but it was VHS that took off.

 

LOL, a lot of that stuff finds it way to second hand stores or those cheap $2 stores to get rid of the excess stock.

Remember the abdomeniser?

Strap it to your belly while sitting, doing SFA and electrical pulses supposedly carved you out an 8 pack.

Of course, in the ads, the model for the results was a guy who also did 10,000 sit ups in supplement - just a small leg up on the device’s own substantial contribution.

My young nephew wasn’t too bright. He picked up an abdomeniser for $5 from an El Cheapo store. I said “Cool”.

He said he and his mates tried it on their heads. I replied WTF? He said yeah, it made their faces and eyes twitch - he said it felt really “strange”. No sh*t Sherlock! LOL.

His stupidity was age related, so was mine at one time - fortunately he grew out of it, as we all do….maybe. Haha.

 

Pretty overpriced and you can just find most of it on the net anyways if you're really interested in the topic. I have pretty much every one from 1997 to around 2018. I just don't really read mags anymore unless I'm on the sh1tter.

 

I have nostalgic memories of The Ring as a kid. My father had a subscription. The first I read was an issue with George Foreman on the cover, saying "I can beat Mike Tyson". May 1988, just looked it up. Wow, my memory was spot on! Anyway that one sucked me in and I read through all his old issues. Read them every month until I went to college.

 

This. I despise DLH and I knew "his" magazine was going to be biased. I wasn't going to help keep him in business.

 

In it's way the bullworker was as much a 70's icon as a space hopper or chopper.
Didn't Kevin Keegan advertise them ?