Your favorite magazine cover?

[Ben Bolt]

The Ring magazine 1922–present
http://boxrec.com/media/index.php/Th...e_Covers:_1922

Boxing Illustrated 1958–1995
http://boxrec.com/media/index.php/Bo...d_Issues:_1958

[Ben Bolt]

”Will this happen?”

August 1962. Not my (aesthetic) favorite cover, but I understand the mag was pretty sure about the outcome of the fight. It happened.

[ShoulderRoll]

This issue gives good, concise summaries of the abilities and careers of the top 5 all-time greats in each division (up to that point in time.)

It's a nice overview of boxing history.

[The Old LefHook]

The Ring magazine 1922–present
http://boxrec.com/media/index.php/Th...e_Covers:_1922

Boxing Illustrated 1958–1995
http://boxrec.com/media/index.php/Bo...d_Issues:_1958

Without a doubt, my favorite cover would be the May 1957 issue of Ring, prominently featuring the incredible Spider Webb.

[RINGG]

[Dempsey-Louis]

The Ring magazine 1922–present
http://boxrec.com/media/index.php/Th...e_Covers:_1922

Boxing Illustrated 1958–1995
http://boxrec.com/media/index.php/Bo...d_Issues:_1958

Great page - thank you - need to spend some time deciding. I think I want to pick one for each decade.

[Dempsey-Louis]

Who the hell is "Cowboy Rueben Shank" and why is he on the cover of The Ring Magazine? (January '46 ) -- A middleweight out of Colorado, he starts the year on the cover and over the next two months goes 3-1-1 but then on April Fools Day he goes into a slide ending his career 1-12-1. -- The cover was a curse, by the summer of '47 he is toast. --

http://boxrec.com/en/boxer/9610



P.S. Not my favorite cover.

[Dempsey-Louis]

”Will this happen?”

August 1962. Not my (aesthetic) favorite cover, but I understand the mag was pretty sure about the outcome of the fight. It happened.

Such a smack in the face to a reigning champion; amazingly prophetic. -- Even if they were right they shouldn't have done that, it was disrespectful.

It is almost as though they didn't accept Patterson as a true champion but only an interim between Marciano and the next anticipated sensation, Sonny Liston.

None of them are aesthetically pleasing; I never realized how horrible their covers actually where.

[TBear]

One of many. I picked this one because I pulled it out and read it again recently.

[Ben Bolt]

One of many. I picked this one because I pulled it out and read it again recently.

I was reading the following issue on the subway when a I met a female friend who knows nothing about sports.
She glimpsed at the cover, noticed the colour, the half-naked man and words like ‘sweet’ and ‘sugar’.
She asked me: “Are you gay?”
I was a bit perpexled by her question and wondered “why do you ask that”?
“Because you are reading a gay magazine …”