Wednesday, October 12, 2011

The "BIG BOOK OF BOXING" magazines

"BIG BOOK OF BOXING" Review:  By Brian Zelley

Introduction
The Victory Sports series by G.C London Publishing Corp.
publishes a series of excellent magazines under the eyes of 
Stanley Weston.

FEBRUARY 1977, review
Included some fine articles such as:
"The Lost Art Of Body Punching",
"Zamora and Zarate" - Bantamweight champons,
"The Night They Put A Tarnished Crown
On Jimmy Ellis; Head",
"The Wildest Title Fight In History",
"The Greatest Fights Of The Last 25 Years"

Greatest Fights (1951 - 1976)

.As should be expected the fight for 1958 was
the light-heavyweight title fight between Archie Moore 
and Yvon Durelle that took place on December 10th.

.The 1962 fight featured middleweight champion
GENE FULLMER vs. DICK TIGER.  It was a wild
fight that saw Tiger win the title.

,The 1969 title fight saw Ruben Olivares win the 
bantamweight championship from Lionel Rose.


NOVEMBER  1975


Good cross-section of articles on Joe Frazier, Clyde Gray,
Emile Griffith Joe Louis, Sandy Saddler and Bobo Olson.
British Heavyweights and Jack Slattery.


The article on Emile Griffith was titled
"EMILE GRIFFITH - BOXING'S 'IRON MAN'"









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