Are we in fact entering the "Ënd Game" for the hard copy Ring Magazine Perhaps, ? with Focus and quality control it seems being more directed to the on-line "ring Ezine" - (the way forward,?) circulaton will inevitably drop, revenue will slump, cost may rise as a last ditch effort to counter this, but the tipping point will have been reached, there comes a time when even devoted fans will not keep paying more - for less, The Bible of boxing may be laid to rest and the way its going perhaps its not a bad thing. to become The Journalistic version of an old has-been is a fate the Ring does not deserve... The Newstands are changing...where i would by Ring, Boxing Illustrated, Ko Magazine, World Boxing, International Boxing, etc the Market does not seem to support mass production or indeed buying of Rival magazines now, people have invariably have reached the stage whereby they may simply pick their favourite, if it survives the circulation war, but with 'Hard Copy" under attack from On Line news and views Access...The Written Times...they are a changing... ( Blues Review Magazine is another casulty i morn...and my friend who runs a newsagents is noticing disappearing publications by the month...)
I think it's likely. At this point if I ran it I'd do a very stripped down version of it going out about every two weeks, reviewing notable fights that have happened since the last issue, previewing notable fight coming up before the next 2 week issue. Maybe one or two pictures from the really notable bouts. Then maybe every 3 months put out a big issue with all the fights, rankings changes, going in depth on big fights/events, profiling up and comers, talking about what went wrong/what went right for big name fighters, all the photography, etc. At the very least it would keep the cost to print most of their issues low, it would keep them up to date, and give them a chance to still put out their juiciest content that the hardcore fan wants without having to rush it to print with shitty quality control. My two cents, but then what do I know of the publishing world?
Either way, North, Central, and South America are still in the Americas and thus those two are African Americans. Besides the fact that they spent the lions share of their lives and/or careers in the USA. Jeez have we devolved to the point where semantics mean more than the actual argument?
The only reason I bothered to post that was I'm pretty sure that Don Stradley's intention in the review referred to in The Ring was to state that Joe Gans was the first African-American world champion. He was criticized in the opening post on this thread for that statement in his review and it's always been my understanding that Gans has long been recognized in that manner.In fact, both of the Gan's biographies that have come out in the past few years have referered to him that way. No big deal, just didn't think that particular criticism was warranted.
Print journalism in magazine formats is dead .. they can no longer compete w the web .. it wil likely fold soon ..