Whats happened to all the boxing magazines?

You could just take the word "boxing" out of your thread title.

 

Why go to hardcopy magazines when you get all the information you need right there in the General Forum?

 

I used to buy all of those. I still have bookshelves full of magazines, and I go back and refer to them quite often.

Today, 99 percent of the boxing coverage is on websites. The problem is, when the sites disappear, and most of them will, so will all the content they produced.

Most of the boxing sites I was active on in 2000 (like Boxing Wise) are long gone.

There is going to be a huge hole left in boxing history (there already is if you're trying to research what happened in the late 90s and early 2000s) when these sites start falling away, unless some them invest in decent archiving practices.

 

:good Hilarious. That reminds me of the movie "This Is The End" ... when Danny McBride makes fun of James Franco for having porno magazines: "Who has porno magazines? Welcome to the 21st Century Buck Rogers. You're jerking your dick like a goddamn pilgrim."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ2BXqST758

 

I used to buy all of them and could not wait for ring magazine and Boxing illustrated, etc. to come out. I used to have the Boxing News Weekly sent from Britain but once they created the internet you could find out results the same day.

I remember waiting for the magazines to find out about the results of a fight 30 day ago from Spain or Germany

 

I used to get Boxing News Weekly, too. I was trading VHS tapes with a guy in England. He'd just send me whatever boxing was on television that week, and I'd do the same in the States and send tapes to him. He recommended I get the magazine so I'd know who the people were being featured on the tapes he was sending.

I'm glad I still have them. It was during the rise of Naseem Hamed, when Lewis lost to McCall and Bruno finally won a belt ... Eubank, Benn, Collins. Lots of stuff going on there at the time.

The issue would arrive about a week late - about the time his tapes did. So it was great. I could watch the fights and read about them.

Seeing fights from around the world is definitely easier now. I'd rather have what we have now than try to find good trading partners around the globe.

But when all the publications disappeared and boxing news sites sprang up, and then the sites disappeared, it became clear that having all this information online - and not in printed form - was going to be a problem. Because great content was there one day and gone forever the next. When it used to be printed, at least you still had the magazine.

 

MMA/UFC magazines are the rage now, not so much boxing magazines. I have a ton of old boxing magazines I used to collect: KO Magazine, The Ring, Boxing Illustrated, etc.

 

They went online.

 

You are right. I thought it would be easy to look up television viewing figures for popular fighters like Whitaker and Jones Jr the way we can for Mayweather and Pacquiao today, but there's almost nothing on either one of them.

 

I've three or four big boxes full of old boxing magazines up in my loft I should get them down as it can't be healthy for them up there but it's where to put them . I much prefer reading from a book or magazine than from a screen it just doesn't feel the same

 

It's not the same....I much prefer the feel of a magazine in my hands..though I love the instant access to fight news, etc.,.I miss the old magazines.

 

Magazines and most news papers are in decline. And those that do well enough don't cover boxing outside of a few nights.

As others said, its all about the web.