Boxrec - your thought's on this site

The way I did it was to start in the early 1900's and I went through every fight I could find in the micro-films of several news papers and wrote them down. I wrote who fought, the date, the place, the weights, the results plus any other information I could find. I started with January 1, then January 2nd, and so on. It took me years, but after a while I had well over 20,000 fights and was able to make records of fighters that weren't in any record books.

Back in the late 1970's and early 1980's I started going to several boxing affairs and most of the time I would be sitting with someone who's record I had. I use to come with a suit case type box with hand written records of all the fighters.

They were amazed when I use to tell them about there career. Most of the time they came with members of there family, and even grand kids, so they all wanted to hear more. After a while I would pull out a copy of there record, and you should have saw there faces, it was priceless.

Soon after, I started MC'ing many of the boxing and sports affairs around the Metropolitan area, and one of the things I did was to introduce all the fighters and other sport celebrates that were in attendance, and when I did, I would give a short bio on each of them. The old-timers loved it, as I would go to table to table, and when I got to each of there tables, they would make sure I saw them.

This was just some of the reasons I did this, as it made a lot of people happy.

 

Its a good addition for boxing. The best part about it is the on line records, and future scheduling of boxing matches. The message board is not bad either. I think you will find the best stuff there, but every now and then Box Rec has some decent threads.

 

that is so true, how many people would watch a nfl game from 1973?

 

Great post. You did it the hard way, my friend! Before easy internet access to info became available we had guys like you doing the footwork. For that I am grateful. We owe you early miners a debt of gratitude.

Sounds like we do this for a lot of the same reasons. Like you, I am in contact with some family members of old boxers. You're right, they are so happy and grateful to get this info and it is a pleasure to give it to them.