Anyone else have trouble getting Ring Magazine this month?

Jack can ask what you guys pay sterling for your copies of the Ring in the UK?

The latest one to hit the newsagents in Australia is the April edition and costs us $24.50 or roughly 12-13 pounds. Its woefully out of date by the time we get it here. Not sure if we get the UK or US cover edition, April had Mayweather on the cover with the headline 'Crucial Decision'.

The next edition, if form is any guide to go by will be the Hatton-Pacquiao preview and will probably turn up a few days after the fight has occured.

Of course subscription would solve that problem but with our exchange rate being craptacular we'd still only be saving a couple of dollars per issue.

 

I have trouble getting any boxing magazine, Have to travel up to the city to buy any.

 

Cheers mate, thats what I expected but am surprised the price is so low compared to us. I did send them a letter querying this over a year ago and am still waiting for a reply. I'm guessing the local distributors here whack some on top as well but even comparing it to other US mags the price is in a different league.

Regarding getting mags, I had to travel to 4 different places to get the 5 mags available here (Ring, Boxing Digest, Boxing Monthly and two local efforts) until I convinced my local shop to get them all. Saves me running around and hes happy with the extra dollars.

 

I managed to get my copy from Smith's but they only had two and it came later than usual.

 

I used to love the glory days of the late 80s early 90s where there were an abundance of mags on offer. Really miss KO, always preferred it over the Ring and there were a couple of others that would could out every second month as well.

I actually just had a look at the letter I wrote them, we were paying between $6 to $9 in the period of '95-'98, early '00s it was at $15 and then I stopped buying until just over a year ago where it seems to have settled at $24.50. Bare in mind that when I resumed buying it our exchange rate was almost on par with the US dollar whereas last time I looked we're back to around 60 cents.

I'm a big fan of the UK mag Boxing Monthly now, we have the option of getting the current issue air freighted for only a couple of dollars extra at $11.50 compared to the surface mail edition of around $9, the big difference though of course is the news isn't so stale and you don't have to stop and have a think about what fights they're reporting on (thank you Ring). Plus all the little freebies they throw in doesn't go astray either.

Boxing Digest (US) suffers the same speed of travel but is $17.50 here, cheaper but still stale, they time it perfectly so that their section on upcoming fights which previews the next two months ahead runs out a week after it gets here. Every. bloody. time.

 

Yep, my newsagent said he never got it sent to him even though he ordered it, still waiting.

 

I got it at WHSmiths but it was the only one there and was a bit late. This week they said they'd had no delivery of Boxing News which pissed me off as the local Tesco's here in MK doesn't have it yet my Tesco's in Manchester sells Boxing Monthly and News. ****ing southern towns

 

my local newsagent aint let me down yet

 

'The ring' will go out of business within 2 years I reckon.

 

We have a copy in our shop...will be sold no doubt tomorrow or later this week when the dude who bought Boxing Monthly comes in again..

 

Come up a junction of the M1 mate Tescos in Northampton sells BN usually and BM sometimes (well the chavvy one in the Eastern Districts does)

 

Not while it's acting as Golden Boy Promotions personal cheer leading mag it won't