Who were and are the best boxing writers?

I'm a fan of Rummy!

 

It was Peter Wilson ,in the Daily Mirror.

 

What ?? Stephen A ? He can talk well about the NBA but he knows common sense basic stuff about Boxing, he believes he is a "boxing guy" because he attended the big fights..

Dan Rafael yes, that is a Boxing guy of modern days..... Doug Fisher or Max Kellerman, sure..

From the Old Days I like to read guys from here actually.....And you know, you won´t find anyone better than Adam Pollack in providing info on the old days... Kompton, guys like that, providing information. Toledo!

Bert Sugar is fun if you want something quick to read... no hate for the guy.

You gotta be aware of what you read though, I read this Sonny Liston book years ago, nice, really good, now was anything the guy said in there true ?
He then said in a interview that he talked to Liston´s ghost.... okay, dude.

Okay, not that I care all that much if it is 100% true since it is only a sport that we enjoy, we are not talking geopolitics, finances and the future of mankind here.....

 

Hugh McIlvanney
Ian Wooldridge
Thomas Hauser
Bert Sugar
Neil Allen
Reg Gutteridge

Some to be going on with.

 

Hi Buddy.
Not familiar with the line, but I like it ! could well have been Wilson.
stay safe mate.

 

Hi Buddy.
Good call with Neil Allen, wrote for the Evening Standard I believe.

 

That's right,Mike. Liked him a lot.

 

To add some not seen mentioned - Donald McCrae, Carlos Acevedo, Katherine Dunn, Tris Dixon, Springs Toledo, Budd Schulberg.

Also David Margolick, -Joseph Layden and Geoffrey C Ward who usually wrote about other topics wrote really good boxing books. James Baldwin's article on Liston and Patterson was something else.

The Fight: Patterson Vs. Liston (deadspin.com)

 

Ned Smith, Bell's Life in London, chief prize ring reporter for several decades, who I think had attended more bareknuckle fights than any person in history, including Pierce Egan and both Dowlings.

Ned James, boxing writer for New York Clipper from 1855 until late 1860's when he had to leave due to weak eyesight (said to be almost blind).

Joe Elliott, reported boxing for New York Herald from 1826 until early 1880s, basically the pioneer of sports reporting in American newspapers, who attended every major fight in the US during half a century.

Toppy McGuire, sporting editor of New York Sun for several decades, attended and reported hundreds of fights since Tom Hyer-Yankee Sullivan on until late 1880s.

Capt. Cooke, sporting reporter/editor of Illustrated Police News (Boston) from early 1882 until 1896 or so (not sure whether he wrote for any other newspaper prior to that, but he had been connected with sports, including boxing, since before 1870.

Peter Donohue, sporting editor of New York World in 1880-1890, then New York Recorder in 1890-1894 (he died in November 1894).

Joe Donovan, sporting writer/editor of Chicago News/Dispatch in 1890's.

 

No mentions for Dave Lahr?

 

Wonderful writer. Never forgot his article on the Pintor-Owen tragedy.

"Outside the ring he was an inaudible and almost invisible personality. Inside, he became astonishingly positive and self-assured. He seemed to be more at home there than anywhere else. It is his tragedy that he found himself articulate in such a dangerous language."

From the Vault: Hugh McIlvanney on Johnny Owen’s last fight | Boxing | The Guardian

 

"As was said when that Roman heavyweight was done in - when comes such another?" McIlvanney on Ali after covering that last sad fight with Trevor Berbick.

 

Yes, Wilbur Wood came up with interesting polls at the end of each year when he was the lead boxing writer for the Sun (New York). The Sun went defunct in 1950. It is not to be confused with a paper called the New York Sun which according to Wikipedia was resurrected in 2002 and then converted to an online newsheet in 2008.