Favourite Boxing Magazines in the old days

Knowing what I know now 59 years after I bought my first boxing magazine at a bus station in Seattle (Boxing Illustrated, August '61 -- a special section on heavyweights from Dempsey to Patterson), if I wanted to start over and learn a lot about boxing history and to be well entertained, I would first collect the Boxing and Wrestling magazines from the 1950s, then Boxing Illustrated from its inception in 1959 through the sixties, and then Ring Magazine from the beginning until Nat Loubet sold the magazine. Boxing International was good. Hank Kaplan's magazine was good. And quite a few of the later magazines up until about 1990 were good. After that, keeping track of all the champions became too much for me and I lost interest.

 

That's the great "time capsule" thing about magazines. You open up an old one and are stunned reading about what they thought would happen. They're a very useful way to discover why certain decisions were made.

 

I started early 70's my dad actually had a 12 month Ring Magazine subscription. So I'm gonna say late 60's , all through the 70's were the best mags, it definetly was the best era, (of the heavyweights for sure). loved The Ring's monthly ratings. Nat Fleischer did a great job there.

World and international Boxing had the best pictures, and Fighter stories/fighter biographies, Boxing Illustrated a lil late in the tooth for their monthly ratings, However did have a top 50 that no one used all the same, and had very good stories in their own right. Also WBA & WBC top ten ratings.

I STILL HAVE ALL 70'S AND ALMOST ALL 60'S Ring Magazine
1965-75 BOXING ILUSTRATED
I started doing boxing stats and writing stuff down about the fighter' s 1972. I really would say when I really knew what was going on RING OCTOBER 1972.

THERE WAS ALSO TOMMY KAYS BOXING DIGEST, KO HAD NOT COME OUT YET.

World & International boxing carried a Top Ffteen of their World Ratings, And Commissioner Randy Gordon did a great job.

 

COULD YOU IMAGINE HAD WE HAD INTERNET, AND CELLS BACK IN THE DAY??