I stored a good few away over the years, stuck em and away in the attic. Got to a point where I was moving out so they got taken to charity shops. I'd love to have kept em now lol.
A sad sign of the times indeed, though I haven't bought an issue in I don't know how long. Decades. I guess they have me to thank for this.
Ring Mag. was never cheap and it had become overly expensive - obviously due to a well diminished market. Two mags would cost more than 1 Adam Pollack book for me. No think music required for deciding where to lay my money down. The Ring, established 1921 - unless there was any breaks in publication, it’s run cracked 100 years. Not bad. How long has Boxing News run for? Australia used to have FIGHTER magazine for quite a number of years. I’m sure there was a boxing writer named Eddie Cool who wrote some pieces for the magazine - but I can’t turn anything up re him on the internet. There was another Australian Mag. called THE FIST (warning: DO NOT google that). LOL, I don’t know if that name has aged so well. EDIT: There is a thread (linked below) in which several members were kind and charitable enough to prove full scans of several old boxing mag. publications. Great stuff. https://www.boxingforum24.com/threads/vintage-boxing-magazine-scans.673824/#post-21273504 Could this thread be pinned perhaps - reserved for other such similar scans?
It was via the ring that I first heard of Danny Lopez and later Sal Sanchez. I was an amateur boxer at the time and the firm belief at Heavyweight anyway, was that boxers had to eat steak. But an article on Danny Lopez in the 70's said he ate Pasta and broccoli, I didn't even know what broccoli was and wasn't that surr about pasta.
I also have a load of old boxers magazine from 1990s which used to include a VHS with it that typically had two fights featured on it does anyone remember those? I still have quite a few boxing VHS tapes that you can't get on DVD aside from a old pre-cert Rocky 1 and 2 VHS tapes (which would be worth a bit now that I don't have any more that got lost?) I think one of the first proper boxing VHS I had was Mike Tyson's Greatest Hits or Champions Forever. I later had a tape with The Rumble in the Jungle and The Thrilla In Manila double feature that was awesome!
I have a 100th anniversary boxing news annual from about 2010ish. It mentions an article on Jack Johnson being champion and stating it matters not what colour Johnson is, only that he's good enough.
I'm just imagining you plucking a bunch of broccoli from the bin in the vegetable aisle, gazing at it before you put it in the plastic bag................."Ah Danny, you were one special fighter" as all the other shoppers give you an especially wide berth.
I've a couple of the old VHS tapes knocking around too.. They seem like something from another century literally now.
I remember a series called THE BOXERS that you could buy from the newsagent. It featured different ATGs and perhaps even categories like great punchers etc. It came with a VHS containing HL fights of the boxer in question. It also had a fold out leaflet profiling the the given boxer. Who put those out there? Marshall Cavendish rings a bell.
