Ring Terminates Print Mag

[Dr. Z]

Actually remarkable they made it this long. They were DEAD in 1989 and Weston saved them. All good things…

The WBC once raked a dead man, yet it's still alive. RIP Ring Magazine in print. You were a treasure. I'm waiting for someone to digitalize and sell all the issues. It is in their plans, right?

[JAB5239]

The WBC once raked a dead man, yet it's still alive. RIP Ring Magazine in print. You were a treasure. I'm waiting for someone to digitalize and sell all the issues. It is in their plans, right?

I think it was the WBA. Sorry to nitpick.

[Dr. Z]

I think it was the WBA. Sorry to nitpick.

You're are correct!

[Willow The Wisp]

The WBC once raked a dead man, yet it's still alive. RIP Ring Magazine in print. You were a treasure. I'm waiting for someone to digitalize and sell all the issues. It is in their plans, right?

Great post, so very true.

[ShoulderRoll]

I liked the KO magazine, especially their H2H matchups.The Ring got glossy but the meaningful content dropped off alarmingly.
At one time it had 2 photo pages of ring card girls FFS! If you want to look at women in next to nothing,and most men do, you could find a lot more rewarding viewing elsewhere ,you bought the ring for the boxing content, not T & A!
And who gives a F what music and games boxers listen to and play ,or how many tattoos they have?
Plus anything before the 70's got airbrushed out of history.

I liked KO Magazine too. I knew the boxing bug had bitten me when I was buying both it and Ring on a regular basis as a youth.

Boxing Illustrated as well, although that one wasn't as enjoyable.

[Dubblechin]

I still have a large collection of Ring, KO, Boxing Illustrated, Boxing News, etc. and many other publications (some of which are out of print now). It's still fun to go back and read through them.

I understand how the immediacy of social media has made print basically "old news" before its even published.

The problem with social media, however, is that sites go under and those videos and stories are gone for good. Nobody is preserving all this stuff.

That's troublesome considering how much boxing reporting these days is simply done via video. Stick your phone in a guy's face and interview him. The interviews aren't printed anywhere.

50 years from now, I'm not sure how many of the current boxing sites will exist or how many of Tyson Fury's (or any other fighter's) Twitter and Instagram videos are still going to be available.

Fighters are going to come and go and there won't be much of a record left of what they said, or what fights were being negotiated or how those negotiations took place ... because the vast majority of information on them will be videos that were posted on sites that don't exist anymore.

Hell, if the Ring site folds, where will the content they publish between the last print magazine and the end of the site go?

We're living in a pretty great age for boxing. You can watch a fight anywhere in the world live or within hours of it happening. (In the 1990s, I used to trade boxing videos with people from England and New Zealand and had to wait a week to see fights, if I ever saw them at all).

You can see live or just recorded interviews with boxers every day. You don't need to wait for a weekly ESPN show to "maybe" discuss a fight you're interested in.

But it feels like 95% percent of the often great and entertaining content we're getting now via social media is just going to vanish and won't be around years from now ... unlike a 70-year-old boxing magazine you can pull off a shelf and just browse through and see what the fighters, writers and fans were thinking at that time.

[QueensburyRules]

I still have a large collection of Ring, KO, Boxing Illustrated, Boxing News, etc. and many other publications (some of which are out of print now). It's still fun to go back and read through them.

I understand how the immediacy of social media has made print basically "old news" before its even published.

The problem with social media, however, is that sites go under and those videos and stories are gone for good. Nobody is preserving all this stuff.

That's troublesome considering how much boxing reporting these days is simply done via video. Stick your phone in a guy's face and interview him. The interviews aren't printed anywhere.

50 years from now, I'm not sure how many of the current boxing sites will exist or how many of Tyson Fury's (or any other fighter's) Twitter and Instagram videos are still going to be available.

Fighters are going to come and go and there won't be much of a record left of what they said, or what fights were being negotiated or how those negotiations took place ... because the vast majority of information on them will be videos that were posted on sites that don't exist anymore.

Hell, if the Ring site folds, where will the content they publish between the last print magazine and the end of the site go?

We're living in a pretty great age for boxing. You can watch a fight anywhere in the world live or within hours of it happening. (In the 1990s, I used to trade boxing videos with people from England and New Zealand and had to wait a week to see fights, if I ever saw them at all).

You can see live or just recorded interviews with boxers every day. You don't need to wait for a weekly ESPN show to "maybe" discuss a fight you're interested in.

But it feels like 95% percent of the often great and entertaining content we're getting now via social media is just going to vanish and won't be around years from now ... unlike a 70-year-old boxing magazine you can pull off a shelf and just browse through and see what the fighters, writers and fans were thinking at that time.

- - While you make some good points, facts are most Rings ended in the garbage.

Boxing forum started on AOL who went bellyup after being the google of the day. Any of that stuff archived?

We had a purt fair number of boxing folk in that forum with direct history of our varied fights and events being discussed.

One problem with stored software is rather the technology will exist to be able to access those records 50 years from now?

We know if we find a 50 yr old Ring, we can read the whole thing because the English language has a large degree of permanence to it.

[billeau2]

- - While you make some good points, facts are most Rings ended in the garbage.

Boxing forum started on AOL who went bellyup after being the google of the day. Any of that stuff archived?

We had a purt fair number of boxing folk in that forum with direct history of our varied fights and events being discussed.

One problem with stored software is rather the technology will exist to be able to access those records 50 years from now?

We know if we find a 50 yr old Ring, we can read the whole thing because the English language has a large degree of permanence to it.

Hopefully there are people who collect these old mags. If someone wrote for the mags they might also hold on... although honestly that would make me a hypocrite...

[Anthony342]

Hopefully there are people who collect these old mags. If someone wrote for the mags they might also hold on... although honestly that would make me a hypocrite...

Does this mean you got rid of your other profile? Well, whatever you gotta do man. As long as you're able to keep posting here because you're one of the better posters. And yeah, I agree, end of an era. A great era. At least until Golden Boy bought it.

[billeau2]

Does this mean you got rid of your other profile? Well, whatever you gotta do man. As long as you're able to keep posting here because you're one of the better posters. And yeah, I agree, end of an era. A great era. At least until Golden Boy bought it.

I had a talk with a Mod who I have a lot of respect for... I mean i respect the mods, but feel as though sometimes priorities on the site are skewered, particularly as of late. I originally had requested this account closed, as I never intended to post two accounts simultaneously.

Thing is... Been on other sites where things started to go South like this, have seen patterns. It may seem like nitpicking...