the end of american boxing magazines?

So you would rather have a fighter consider the Champion of his weight division by having a paper title?

 

They've stopped publishing KO and World Boxing, I believe.

 

The two i do like are Boxing Monthly and Ring Magazine , just because Ring has historically carried weight and some of the photo fight coverages are excellent.. If i see them i buy em , but other than that i dont go out of my way to get hold of them..

 

i'm the exact same. i get boxing news aswel sometimes

 

Yes so do i.. I often think Boxing news can miss a lot of important non british coverage...

Friday Ahunanya's 12 and final round knockout win over the unbeaten New Zealander Shane Cameron (19-0) to maybe get a placement inside the heavyweight top 20 was not even mentioned in this weeks issue..

 

the start of internet boxing sites and forums

 

Am I the only guy on this forum who likes Boxing Digest? It seems to have less of a production cycle than the Ring and others, so it's coverage of fights is not that far behind. Plus, I think photography is excellent, and I like the fight re-caps and the Spanish section.

 

I got it a couple of times. Don't like their rankings. I understand what there trying to do, but it's not realistic.

 

I see your point about the rankings. Combining weight classes that way is definitely out of the norm.

 

I'm interested to see what Oscar will do for The Ring. In the latest edition he mentions bringing new features to the magazine, so hopefully that will raise the profile more. I'd like to see something like DVD's to go alongside the mag. Maybe every month we could get a legendary fight or profile on a boxer or something.

In 2007 being a "good" or even "great" magazine isn't enough. The Ring needs updating, as aside from it going to colour, it is similar in layout to some of the ones I have from the 1950's.

 

Is your priority instant coverage? Or would pay for a monthly boxing magazine with in-depth articles from great writers? People on a par with Red Smith, A.J. Leibling, Bob Considine and Jim Murray, for example.

 

Just out of interest, are you in any way connected to a magazine, John? Not nessecarily as a writer (Although I would love to read some of the stories you have told before, but with even more detail), but just connected to them.

And I think, with the rising popularity of the internet, there is less and elss need for results and reviews. What they need to do is offer something the internet can't. Knowledge. many of the people behind The Ring in particular have decades and decades of eperiance as a fan. That is something a forum, or Boxrec or even the good internet sites like ESB can't offer. The Ring has so much potential, yet there is a lot of time spent on talking about irrelavnt stories.

What I'd like to see is more fighter profiles. Give us fans the low down on how good these people are. You look at the P4P rankings and even as hardcore fan, I don't know who some of these people are. Give us their backgronud, fighter history, their attributes in the ring, personal stories of them and so on.

I'd also like to see more emphasis on history. There isn't enough time looing back on the events in th sport, which made it so great. how about something look at the evolution to modern boxing How about racism, something which has steadily dissapeared from boxing, yet was prominent for years. How about a look back on Muhammad Ali or Jack Dempsey. There is too much to talk about, which doesn't get covered.

I have a load of ideas which I think could improve the magazine. I really think there needs to be an overhaul of the layout in particular though. Add a few new features and, for The Ring, get rid of nosense like that "Bag-something or other" idiot.

 

when I was a kid, I had to wait a month to find out who won certain fights, there was a lot more fights on T.V. but less world wide news available, I used to wait for the ring Mag and go to results, today you find out instantly