Ko Magazine

Yes I also liked KO mag'. A bit before that, I think from the same publishers, were World Boxing and The Big Book of Boxing. These magazines regularly had attractively laid out features on classic boxing. They often had reprints of headlines and excerpts from contemporary newspapers within the articles. I remember sending away for back numbers of these magazines. Only ones I see on the stands now are The Ring, Boxing News weekly and Boxing Monthly. Not bad output of publications for a "dying Sport!"

 

Think KO had Nunn and Mr T on the cover that was cool.

 

Didnt they also hire Jim Bagg or whatever his name was. That guy was a tool. The worst ever. Very low point for any magazine.

 

You can get all the old ones off ebay for pretty cheap. I've been collecting them the last few years and have pretty much all of them. A lot of people sell them in lots of 20 to 30 or so and the going rate that I usually pay is maybe $2 per mag. Check it out (just don't outbid me on any lots)

 

I have damn near every issue down stairs in my house I have 6 or 7 large plastic storage cases full of KO (which was my favorite)
Boxing Illustrated
The Ring
Boxing Scene
Boxing Digest
World Boxing
Plus they had ones that would coincide with what ever year it was like "Boxing 96" or whatever I'm sure I am forgetting many but I have so many! Every once in awhile I'll go down and look thru a few. I'd even by Sports Illustrated if boxing was on the cover or covered inside at all.. Good stuff.

 

That's someone I haven't thought of in years...

I think, and if I'm wrong please correct me but when Ring bought them out Bagg transitioned over and feuded with Ivan Goldman. Bagg was the written equivalent of Andrew Dice Clay if Clay had suffered brain damage from auto erotic asphyxiation.

 

Nice read thanks for posting

 

I never read that before. That was great.

 

Tanks for posting. I stopped buying the ring sometime after the transition and have never liked back. Even by then though the ring hasn't been the Ring for years.

 

I thought he was funny

 

I miss Boxing Pictorial! ! !

 

Thanks for bringing this up! KO, Ring, Boxing Illustrated all had their ups and downs. And I think Boxing Monthly from across the pond was the one foreign boxing mag with credibility. Used to scour newstands for these rags. Fangoria, Pro Wrestling Illustrated, Maxim, High Times, Juxtapoz, Gorezone, The Source, Cinefantastique, Hustler...them were the days.