Boxing Journalists

Cheers, where abouts are you based?

 

I Don't rate Tris at all. He is very knowledgable, but comes across 'holier than thou' IMO

 

What did Claude Abrams do after he gave up the best job in the world?

 

Went travelling with his wife. He was back in Britain for a bit at Christmas but think he's overseas again now.

 

Seasoned writers that I like are Don McRae, Steve Farhood and Graham Houston.

Springs Toledo is an excellent writer, check out his work on the Beast of Stillmans, brilliant research and writing. A very talented guy.

I dont rate any of the British print boxing press, except Bunce. Also, now that I think of it, John Rawling has done some excellent work in the past for the Guardian and others.

My favourite boxing writer was Budd Schulberg, he wrote the best non-boxing book that I have ever read as well - 'What makes Sammy run'.

 

John Garfield, who I've seen post in the lounge has written some awesome stuff on boxers from the past. Dude is just an old fashioned storyteller. I enjoy his stuff much more than the average journalist.

It's not about using proper English, perfect grammar, and witty metaphors. This guy just damn well knows how to tell a story.

 

Heres John

http://www.thesweetscience.com/columnists/joe-rein

And his own site

http://home.earthlink.net/~joerein/

 

It's a lost art. Most of the names on here are writers and not 'boxing journalists'. Most title fights each week on BoxNation or Sky take place without more than two or three online die-hard and essential reporters in the press seats. There are writers on papers in Britain that have NOT been to a fight in Britain since Burns v Katsidis!
Adios.

 

thanks pal, didn't know that he was actually a pro writer.

 

Funny how he doesn't burn bridges at every turn eh! The bloke has to balance things to stay in the game, i'm not sure why people can't realise that sometimes! If you know the sport, you can see when he is skirting round the story.

 

Do you go around them and check who's an online writer? I can tell you I know four online writers that attend almost every show they can get to. Andy Wake, Terry Dooley, John Evans and Danny Winterbottom. Hard workers and flipping good writers.

I'm in Boxing Monthly this March issues and will be in April issue tpp, been published in Boxing News several times and in a couple of local/national newspapers. Also write for LiveFight and B o x i ng Scene

So am I a 'writer' or a boxing journalist?

Y'know why I can't get to shows? I live in the Scottish Borders. 90 miles from Glasgow, treble that to Sheffield and beyond. Two kids, quit a job to look after my ill fiancee and have been on the dole ever since. I don't get paid to go to shows. I'm hoping to get to Burns v Moses (I'll see you there, mine's a pint) but it's not guaranteed because I'm flipping skint. I've taken on some extra workload with Coldwell Boxing to bring in a few more pennies.

Not having a go Bunce, respect your work but outside of London it's harder for writers.

 

Bunce wasn't having a go Shaun.

He was pointing out that the likes of Bert Shulberg and Donald McCrae etc are writers in semi-literary sense rather than beat reporters.

And I think what he meant to say is that the so-called proper journalists are not attending shows like they should do and it's the online writers which are carrying small hall and domestic forwards because they are the only ones which give a damn about it.

Me and Buncey had a chat about 18 months ago about internet boxing coverage, and we both agreed that it is a good thing but for every good website and good writer you've got ten bad websites and 20 bad writers.

The likes of me, you and Terry Dooley now sit in between the online and print worlds because we all contribute to magazines and newspapers as well as sites.

 

If you were anywhere near Yorkshire I might have been able to point you in the direction of a few places.