Being from the UK we only have magazines and a few USA Boxing shows. Now being Boxing fanatics like we are if we didnt have the net to keep up with all the latest news we cudnt even get into it like we are. I remember just getting boxing news every week and watching ITV. Thats all that was there so I cudnt keep track of the sport properly. So I guess all these forums are actually to blame for turning me into a boxing nut ahaha
Unless you had access to newspaper archives it would be difficult. Mostly the domain or journalists and dedicated followers. Sometimes too much information is too much and you get everybody and their brother thinking they are experts on a subject because they read something about on the internet and think they understand it.