Boxing magazines!!???

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  1. Rilz

    Rilz Ball don't lie! Full Member

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    I was in Borders today buying a book for Christmas for my mom.....and of course found my way wandering by the magazine section. There were 6 MMA magazines and 0 boxing magazines, not even "The Ring" my friends. The guy who worked there said he hasn't seen the ring in a few years and the MMA ones sell decently. Why the hell do you think this is? What can Oscar do to turn this around??
     
    Rilz, Dec 23, 2008
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  2. BigBone

    BigBone Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Make better covers

    This content is protected
     
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  3. Rilz

    Rilz Ball don't lie! Full Member

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    oh my god, I didn't know that fool was actually posing in the pictures. I thought there was like one of him they made him do on a dare or something. JESUS!
     
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  4. Taylex

    Taylex Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Is this real? Is that ODLH??? Shameful
     
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  5. Rilz

    Rilz Ball don't lie! Full Member

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    were those pics ever proved legit?
     
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  6. Larson

    Larson Paenkhay Full Member

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    Where the **** have yall been in the past 2 calendar years?
     
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  7. Rilz

    Rilz Ball don't lie! Full Member

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    I heard all the talk, and saw maybe one of them, didn't really go searching around to look at them
     
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  8. boxingwizard

    boxingwizard Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I see The Ring Magazine when I go to the city in stores like Barnes and Nobles, but in and around the small towns I live in, there are no boxing magazines. There's MMA though. Unfortunate, I remember about 5 years ago there used to be The Ring at a small town local grocery store, but it is there no more.
     
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  9. Suge Green

    Suge Green Boxing Junkie banned

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    The pics were fake.
     
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  10. Infern0

    Infern0 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    I can't even get The ring in new zealand. it sucks balls
     
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  11. podcast

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    I live in England and I have to order The Ring in, yet there's an array of American MMA mags - though the British boxing mags are there.

    Perhaps its because more people do a martial art and for most boxing is just a spectator sport? Yet if I go into a book store there's tonnes on boxing but next to nil on MMA, strange.
     
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  12. kirk

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    Yeeeup.... i commented on this a year or so ago on how my magazine store was slowly getting rid of their boxing mags and getting mma ones. When before (around 2004) there was about 4 boxing mags, and 1 to 2 mma mags

    Now... there is only the Ring left, and the other places i go dont even have THAT.

    but no, nobody continue to panic... its the economy, or its a fad, boxing isnt in trouble and its not dying or getting weaker.


    but back to reality for a second, we need to realise theirs a problem before we can fix it, i have already talked to the people that manage the store and continually ask for boxing mags lol... i hope oscar can turn this around bigtime, but the problem is boxing is not as popular, so why would they sell it?

    sucks but its reality.

    Boxing needs to change.
     
    kirk, Dec 24, 2008
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  13. wansen

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    Infern0 you might be lucky you can't find Ring anymore. As a reader for the past 25 years, I can tell you it's really gone downhill. The last issue cost almost 9$ and was just awful. The past issues have not been much better. It's so bad, I'm not buying it anymore.
     
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  14. iceman71

    iceman71 WBC SILVER Champion Full Member

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    last time i saw a ring magazine they wouldnt like 8 bucks for it...no thanks
     
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  15. LB1900

    LB1900 New Member Full Member

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    They charge 145 $ a year to send The Ring Magazine to Europe..
    And 55 $ a year if you live in the US...

    I Dont get it... ???

    Anyway... boxing monthly is a much better magazine, and U get one year for 50 £....
     
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