Im telling you guys its a blast. I have to send in my next payment, but i was a memeber of the IBRO all last year and the rare information they send you in their awesoe monthly journals and emails is outstanding. Its worth it every single bit.
Well Im in my dorm room right now, but when I go home tomorrow for winter break I would be happy too. For example, soe of the old newspaper articles are about the black murders row from the 30s, 40s, 50s. they post fight articles like archie moore vs eddie booker fight details , etc etc
Does that mean just separate articles, or are they series of pre-fight, fight report, post-fight coverage?
No like they photo copy articles from the newspapers at the time and put it in the journal. So for exaple you get to read the live 1944 post fight article on archie moore vs charley burley. the description gives you round by round details. Some issues are better than others. You defintley get to read about obscure fighters you hadvnt heard about before.
Nah, isn't worth it then for me. I have thousands of such articles myself. The problem is to analyze and build up a timeline.
From several online newspaper archieves, plus my own collection of boxing books and magazines consisting of several hundred items.
They are too much to scan. If you need something in particular from Ring magazines (considering fight report is usually included in issue dated 2 or 3 months after the fight had taken place), ask away, I'll see if I can help. 1942: May-July, October 1945: December 1946: January, March, September, December 1948: January-May, September 1949: April 1950: January, June 1951: February, April, June, August, October, December 1952: January, March-December 1953: April, August, September 1961: January, May, October, November 1962: January-April, June, July 1963: March, October 1964: May, July, August 1968: July 1970: February-July, September, October, December 1973: January-December 1975: January, February, May-July 1981: January-August, October-December 1984: February-October, December (Jan and Nov were never published) 1985: January-December 1988: January-May 1990: January-December 1991: May, September
ring magazine is sitting on a gold mine and they're too stupid, lazy or incompetent to use it. ahem, SCAN AND UPLOAD ALL YOUR BACK ISSUES! then charge a monthly membership to search for articles and protect the pages so jackholes can't print them off!!! they'd make a freaking fortune doing this, and truly would be the greatest research tool on the net. and before someone charges in here and say there's no complete history there's supposed to be one at the ibhof.
I'm not sure the owners of the magazine even have all old issues anymore. It is also funny that their official site links to boxrec encyclopaedia for magazine covers.
