New RING magazine?

I've noticed that the quality of Ring had steadily gone downhill in the past few months or so, maybe longer. I cancelled my subscription recently. It sounds like they need to get their **** together.

And although this wasn't one of the reasons I decided to stop getting the mag, I'm not liking how Oscar De La Hoya, promoter of one of the top promotional companies in the sport, now owns the magazine that is supposed to keep producing "unbiased" analyses and rankings. Are we just supposed to look the other way while GBP has this monopoly over promotions, rankings, a heavy influence with the networks, etc.? I can't even imagine the uproar there would have been if Don King or Bob Arum bought Ring Magazine.

 

I haven't collected the US Boxing mags for a while. When did Boxing Illustrated stop publishing (Bert Sugar's mag)? I always thought that it was the best of the publications.

 

i used to think this was the best of the lot as well,,used to collect for yrs,,put em in a box,every few yrs when i moved id give em away,,american,british,australian,,oh well,,internet,has saved me there.

 

Nat Fleischer is spinnin' in his grave. Everything used to be so classy about Ring Magazine. It had a disclaimer on the table of contents page attesting to the clean language and lack of 4 letter words in the magazine. It was a clean, authoritative, well put together magazine, and that includes the way the pages were put together, well crafted. Today, it should be known as just 'ring", not Ring Magazine.

 

Absolutely NO ****in ****!!! Imagine if it were King or Arum who bought the RING!! Hell storm for sure, but with GBP it's all good?? BS. I'll believe what they say if next months issue has an article "Oscar: WTF?? Wanting to fight Pac Man??".

 

These Ring magazines are not training to go 12 rounds. Bad stamina. I guess the old school guys are laughing about it.

 

After Sugar was replaced by Herb Goldman - about 10-15 years ago, it became Boxing Digest. Now it absolutely SUCKS - easily the worst among the mags today.

 

Thanks for the info Zakman. That's a shame.

I remember when Ring became part of the KO 'stable' and thought it went downhill at that point. Boxing Illustrated used to have lots of great articles about old time fights and fighters and seemed a lot less succeptible to hype than their rivals.

 

Just curious, how many boxing fans enjoy the history aspect?: articles about great old fights, old interviews etc.

I'm a big fan of this. 20 years ago I used to go into the college library and look at old issues of Sports Illustrated. Every issuue per year was bound into a book. Pull out the 1960 book and you could read about Patterson/Johanson etc.. Pull out the 71' book and read issues with comments/predictions before the Frazier/Ali bout. That was my favorite part, seeing what all the experts would predict before the fight actually happened.

I have done a little research on individual fighters, but they seem to be like recent term papers siting quotes here and there only.

Is there a good website/sites that has easily retrieves archieved original articles about old fights, or recent fights for that matter, where build up and prediction articles, and post fight analysis articles are included.

I sure would appreciate anyones help here...




Anyone out there who can help

 

I personally love the historical, or classic articles as much as anything else. Fights and fighters of the past fascinate me as much as anything that's happening today, but I sure want up to date articles about the latest fights and fighters too. The thing is, you can't just ignore boxing's great past. It's very necessary to have these classic features in the mags as anything.

 

Red Cobra, do you know any websites where we can get old articles?

 

I think they are nice to have as a collectible, of sorts, but a printed magazine seems SOOO late and behind the times, now that we can get news off the internet right away, instead of having to wait weeks for a new issue of a printed magazine to be written, printed, distrubuted, and put on the stands...............

 

Havent went to Rite Aid for my issue yet whats all in it this month ?