Product Description

Covers the sport of boxing.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #581 in Magazine Subscriptions
• Format: Magazine Subscription

Customer Reviews

The Millenium Ring
The RING started out in the 1920's, edited by Nat Fleisher, who died in the 60's. Considered "The Bible of Boxing," RING has always been highly regarded, but after Fleisher's death, it has had ups and downs depending on who owned the rights to it at the time. Recently, the publishers of KO magazine have published the magazine, and it's quality has remained comparatively high in the mediocre boxing publication business. Starting in 2001, the RING went to a full color format, relatively unheard of for a boxing magazine and the content and photos are quite professional. As far as the Boxing business goes, the RING is probably the most informative and insightful publication on the boxing scene today.

Expensive and repetitive
First thing to note is that "The Ring" doesn't get you 12 issues anymore. Without much fanfare the "Bible of Boxing" went bi-monthly instead of monthly, adding "The Ring EXTRA" in the other months. Of course, it also *costs* extra; a lot extra even with Amazon's great prices. Yeah, the pages are glossy now, but that's a steep increase over the price from just a couple of years ago that included 12 issues. (They apparently refuse to try to sell ad space other than to a few boxing-specific companies.)

Further, the photographs and anecdotes repeat all the time (expect a Camacho or Duran joke, or both, every issue, and they've been using the same Tyson photos for over three years), and you can count on at least one if not two stories on old, historically irrelevant boxers. (A nod to boxing's graying fanbase no doubt, but that doesn't make 43-17 boxers from the 1940s any more exciting.) Still, credit "The Ring" for explaining its fighter rankings and *usually* remembering that even if it can't be timely because of its format it can be analytical.

The Bible
With all the turmoil that surrounds the fight game, The Ring has remained a constant since the 20's.

The joke that is the alphabet soup is being put in it's place by The Ring's champions. All these IBF, WBA, WBC. NABF....titles do not mean squat in the minds of true boxing fans. The Ring has a list of champions who can be really called that. Holding a belt for any of these alphabet organizations isn't necessary to be recognized aa a champ in the eyes of The Ring. A colored layout coupled with new features has the ring swinging still after 80 years!

The bible doesn't lie!