Ring Terminates Print Mag

[QueensburyRules]

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...

They gonna close History?

Or give jabber a diaper?

[JAB5239]

They gonna close History?

Or give jabber a diaper?

Nobody in this section needs a diaper as long as you're around, Turd gobbler. You've been eating sh*t here for years and it doesn't look like you're going to stop anytime soon.

[Anthony342]

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...

Cool man. Glad you were able to keep posting here.

[QueensburyRules]

Nobody in this section needs a diaper as long as you're around, Turd gobbler. You've been eating sh*t here for years and it doesn't look like you're going to stop anytime soon.

- - U in jumping up and down monkey primal screaming therapy again ain't a good look.

[crold1]

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.

Agree with a lot of the sentiment here. One of the upsides of the research I did for Ring's 100th was getting ahold of most of the issues, at least through 1931. Over the years have tracked down a full set of KO as well and tracking some others. Paper archives are invaluable. They don't vanish into server ether and turning pages is still more fun to me. I've not been good about archiving all the stuff I've written over the years (some of it occasionally even good) and that comes with knowing much of it could vanish someday.

[billeau2]

Agree with a lot of the sentiment here. One of the upsides of the research I did for Ring's 100th was getting ahold of most of the issues, at least through 1931. Over the years have tracked down a full set of KO as well and tracking some others. Paper archives are invaluable. They don't vanish into server ether and turning pages is still more fun to me. I've not been good about archiving all the stuff I've written over the years (some of it occasionally even good) and that comes with knowing much of it could vanish someday.

Hopefully there will always be the occasional magazine Hoarder around... Some "joe" with a nice big attic... And while we are at it, maybe we can find that alleged Greb fight that was taped! And photographic proof of a space alien! I know I have high hopes but hey, aim for the Sun reach the Moon.

[Dr. Z]

Agree with a lot of the sentiment here. One of the upsides of the research I did for Ring's 100th was getting ahold of most of the issues, at least through 1931. Over the years have tracked down a full set of KO as well and tracking some others. Paper archives are invaluable. They don't vanish into server ether and turning pages is still more fun to me. I've not been good about archiving all the stuff I've written over the years (some of it occasionally even good) and that comes with knowing much of it could vanish someday.

Free ideas if Ring Magazine wants to make some coin. Could they digitaze the library and sell to people who log into say a server which prevents copying and pasting via PC ? I'll buy it. It's worth more than a PPV for my money.

I once informed the hack of fame to build a small theater in which to play rare fights, just so the fans could see them instead of collecting dust in garages and attic's. Something to be shown a few times a year that collect all smart devices before the fights are shown. Just think Greb vs Walker or something on Elmer Ray or Max Rosenbloom might be playing someday.