CHARLES JAY BRINGS HIS UNIQUE INSIGHT TO BOXING SCENE
The "ultimate insider" among boxing media will contribute columns, podcasts
New York, NY -- CHARLES JAY, one of the most respected boxing writers in the world and certainly one of the more controversial, will be coming to BoxingScene.com.
Jay will be contributing two columns a month to Boxing Scene (www.boxingscene.com), one of the world's leading boxing sites and home to the largest forum community of its kind. In addition to that, he'll be podcasting - with a minimum of two audio programs a month and as many as four. It constitutes one of the first deals for the content services division of Jay's company, Total Action Inc., which will be engaged in the business of supplying original text and audio content related to sports, gaming and entertainment to websites around the internet. He is currently the publisher of TotalAction.com and runs the Total Action Radio Network.
"Charles Jay is a welcomed addition to the site. The guy is seasoned veteran of the sport and one of the few boxing scribes to have actually been involved in the business," said Reeno. "We are looking to reach new heights in 2006, bringing aboard a writer with the credentials of Charles Jay is certainly a big step in that direction."
A former boxing manager, matchmaker and booking agent, Jay attained a degree of notoriety starting in 2002 when he wrote and published "Operation Cleanup: A Blueprint for Boxing Reform," which was the most comprehensive look inside the industry and issues of boxing reform. He followed that with "Operation Cleanup 2: Unfinished Business" and "Body Shots: Outside the Ring and Inside the Game of Pro Boxing." A third Operation Cleanup book ("The product of some major enlightenment," he says) is currently in the works. Jay was the recipient of a 2003 Dignity Award for "Best Sports Writer" from the Retired Boxers Foundation, a non-profit group devoted to helping boxers in need, and won a "Barney" award in 2004 from the Boxing Writers Association of America for his investigative work. Recently he was the editor-in-chief of The Sweet Science, a boxing website.
"I look forward to a great relationship with Rick Reeno and Boxing Scene," Jay said. "We're going to be doing some cutting-edge things together. Certainly with all those forum members (close to 30,000), I'm going to try to put something together to keep them occupied, and I'm sure you'll be hearing about it. I feel like we're really going to get on a roll."
As part of the deal, some of Jay's material will appear on the Fox Sports website (www.foxsports.com), with whom Boxing Scene has a content partnership. That makes the affiliation even more attractive.
"What's exciting is that I think my stuff is going to be read - and heard - by more people than ever before, through the Fox connection," he says. "I see this as a unique win-win situation."