BOXING ILLUSTRATED, April 1970

"BOXING ILLUSTRATE, APRIL 1970" review: By Brian Zelley

This magazine was called a special "collector's issue", and with
a key story by Lew Eskin titled:  "Those Swinging '60's Saw
a Lot of Changes  in the World of Boxing" and the selection
of Emile Griffith as "Fighter of the Decade".  Concerning the
selection of Emile Griffith, I couldn't agree more as he was the
boxer that I picked as the top fighter of the Sizzling Sixties.


In his article, Lew selected Cassius Clay, Emile Griffith, 
Eder Jofre, Flash Elorde, Carlos Ortiz and Dick Tiger
as stand outs in the past ten years.  Mention was also 
made about Harold Johnson and Joe Brown.


The article included a listing of all the key moments
The first listed ittem was the January 22, 1960 event
that saw Sugar Ray Robinson lose to Paul Pender.
The last event listed was the December 29, 1969
signing of the fight contract between JOE FRAZIER
and JIMMY ELLIS.


*the eight page summary of events and happenings
included thumb nail photos of many boxers including:
Pender - Robinson, Jose Becerra, Fullmer - Basilio,
Ruddel Stitch, Patterson - Johansson, Pone Kingpetch,
Harold Johnson, Eder Jofre, Joe Brown, Moore - Rinaldi,
Griffith - Paret, Pender - Downes, Stillman's Gym, Frankie Carbo,
Freddie Miller, Moore 0 Maki, Liston - Patterson, Bud Taylor, 
Rodriguez - Griffith, Ortiz - Brown, Pastrano - Johnson, Davey Moore,
Kid Williams, Carter - Griffith, Sonny Liston, Gus Lesnevich, 
Giardello - Carter, Alejandro Lavorante, Joe Frazier, Persol - Hank,
Terrell - Machen, Torres - Pastrano, Laslo Papp, Walter McGowan, 
Harada - Jofre, Laguns - Oriz, Jim Norris, Griffith - Tiger, Oriz - Ramos,
Curtis Cokes, Barney Ross, Primo Carnera, Johnny Connors, kim - Benvenuti,
Clay - Folley, Benvenuti 0 Griffith, Chartchai Choinoi, Vincente Saldivar,
Winstone - Seki, Teo Cruz, Frazier - Mathis, Jimmy Ellis, Pete Latzo, 
Ellis - Patterson, Lionel Rose, Johnny Famechon, Napoles - Cokes, 
Marty Servo, Rocky Marciano, Olivares - Rose, Martin - Liston, and
the last phot with Jimmy Ellis - Joe Frazier.  

BOXING The RING

BOXING's "The RING" Magazine  1964: By Brian Zelley


"The RING" Magazine, November 1964


*The important theme in the November issue was historical,
it was related to Madison Square Gardens and the Gillette
sponsored weekly TV fights.  As reported in "The RING"
that November the article was called:
"THE END OF AN ERA in GARDEN BOXING"
and the last bout was August 21, 1964 between Johnny Persol and
Henry Hank.  


The magazine also had some photos of past televised bouts
including the first with Willie Pep vs Chalky Wight in as  featherweight
title fight on September 29, 1944.


*In other news reported was The RING's fighter of the month being
Billy Daniels. And, two of the eight Prospects For The Month were  

Chuck Wepner of New Jersey and Johnny Sharpe of Los Angeles.


*In the ring ratings as of September 11, 1964 the top lightweight
contender was England's Dave Charnley  and the top Jr. lightweight
was Johnny Bizzarro (sic)  of Erie, Pa.


*One of the bouts reported was the heavyweight fight in which 
Billy Daniels earned a split decision over Doug Jones.


*Hall of Fame inductees for 1963 were reported and included
the modern era: Willie Pep, the old-timers: Tom Gibbons,
and for the Pioneers it was Jem Ward.  Also, there was a 
discussion of the 1964 nominees with some hints if whom 
may get picked.


*In the rings around the world, there was a Canadian report
from Fred Bishop on "The Canadian Maritimes".  Fred reprted
on activity at Glace Bay, New Glasgow, and Halifax.
Some names of boxers: Tyrone Gardiner and his defense of the
Canadian lightweight title with Fernand Chretien at the Miner's
Forum in Glace Bay, Carl Baldwin, Rocky MacDougal.  In Pictou
it was Don Chisholm, amateurs mentiond were L. Hafey and 
and Tiger Jackson. Also, mentioned was Jackie Hayden.

KO PRESENTS BOXING 2006

KO BOXING 2006, special issue magazine :  By Brian Zelley


It was published by the KO group founded by Stanley Weston, and the 2006 publisher was
Stuart M. Saks and the editor-in-chief Nigel Collins.  Published by London Publishing
Company. 


"Mexican Fighters
A very interesting article by Willaim Dettloff  titled
"The 20 Greates Mexican Fighters Of All-Time"
*the 20 chosen by William in-order of appearance were:
Julio Cesar Chavez, Ruben Olivares, Miguel Canto, Carlos Zarate, Salvador Sanchez,
Vincente Saldivar, Ricardo Lopez, Kid Azteca, Jose Beccera, Humberto Gonzalez,
Baby Arizmendi, Pipino Cuevas, Chalky Wright, Juan Zurita, Carlos Palomino,
Jose Ramirez,Lupe Pintor, Daniel Zaragoza,  Rodolfo Gonzalez, Jesus Pimentael,.


*in the story about Zaragoza, there are references to bouts with boxers
Paul Bamle, Frankie Duarte and many others.


*For Vincente Saldivar, there was a two page phot of Saldivar and
Raule Rojas following the bout that took place on May 10, 1965
in Los Angeles.


A real Golden Oldie article was called:
"LISTON & LOUIS Unlikely Friends With Too Much In Common.
The author was Don Stradle.


"BATTLE of the LEGENDS"
some of the bouts were:
Boxers Bobby Chacon vs Wilfredo Gome, Marvin Hagler vs jake LaMotta,
Joe Frazier vs Larry Holmes,Jose Napoles vs Luis Rodriguez.                                                   Persons that were asked to pick a potental winner included:
Jack Obermayer, Cornelius Boza-Edwars and Grant Phillips
for the first fantasy bout, Teddy Brenner Al Certo and Sal Rappa for the
Hagler - LaMotta bout, Dave Anderson, jay Bright and Teddy Brenner 
for Frazier - Holmes., and Angelo Dundee, Emile Griffith and hank Kaplan 
for the Napoles - Rodriguez bout.


For the Napoles vs Rodriguea at their prime and best, I would pick Napoles.
Angelo as expected picked Luis, Emile picked Napoles, and Kaplan
picked Rodriquez by points )a perfect split-decision which would come as
no surprise.  But, we all know that when all is said and done that
LUIS RODRIGUEZ  is Angelo's pride and joy. 


*There was plenty of stuff about the active boxer of the day but
it was JERMAIN TAYLOR that appeared on the cover of the magazine.


*Media Review:  Thumbs-up piece on the BoxRec internet site.
The review was done by Eric Raskin who is listed as a contributing
editor of the KO magazine in 2006.

world champion 1977

FIRST ISSUE OF "WORLD CHAMPION": By Brian Zelley


it was the first issue of a new magazine and was published by
publisher Dan Lurie and edited by Lew Eskin


The Contributors:
Articles were provided by a group of writers including:
Dan Lurie, Lew Eskin, Jack Obermayer, Al Lewis,
Billy Mahoney, Jerry Fitch and guest Emile Griffith.


The Articles:
Good cross-section of articles and ring ratings,


*On the tragic side, one article was titled:
"Tragedy Strikes Middleweight Division  again"
- the new addition to the long list of middleweight tragediw
was the death of Radames Cabrera while he was working at 
a social club in New York city.  During his boxing days,
Cabrera had two of his wins were over Eddie Gregory and
Art Kettles


Ring "round-up"
*some of the Fights covered in the magazine were:
Sean O'Grady vs Joe Medrano, Jimmy Young vs Lou Rogan,
and a double header in Halifax, Nova Scotia that featured
Clyde Gray vs Angel Garcia, and Christy Elliott vs Gary Broughton.


"FITCH'S CLOSE - UPS" 
*jerry Fitch did a story on Tony Zale, ex-two time middleweight champ
known as the Man of Sterl.  


North American Ratings:
Champions and fifteen ranked other boxers listed.
Champions ranged from Ken Norton to Alberto Morales.
A sample of the others includes:
Ron Lyle, Mike Colbert, Bennie Briscoe, George Cooper,
Lou Bizzaro, Randy Shields, Terminte Watkins, Walter Seeley,
Art Hafey, Danny Lopez, Frankie Duarte, and Cesar Kee,

BOXING ILLUSTRATED, review of October 1964

BOXING ILLUSTRATED  revisited:  by Brian Zelley

One of the earliest boxing magazines that I purchased at
the local news outlet was back in 1964.  One of those was
the October 1964 issue which featured a variety of curren
stories of 1964 and some flashbacks  of previous years.

The main active bout reported was a preview of the
light-heavyweight title fight between
WillIe Pastrano vs Terry Downes. 

Some of the fight results reported included:
*Dick Tiger vs Jose Gonzalez, Percy Hayles vs Paulie Armstead,
Johnny Bizzarro vs Frankie Narvaez, Sugar Ray Robinson vs
Art Hernandez, Cleveland Williams vs Sonny Banks and 
Jose Stable vs Gabe Terronez. 

FLASHBACKS;
*Two old fights recalled from the past included the 
middleweight bout between Rocky Graziano and
Tony Janiro, and the flyweight title fight between
Jimmy Wilde and Pancho Villa.

A featured piece: "THE LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHTS"
by Boxing Illustrated's managing editor Robert Thornton.
The article was very well presented and covered every
title fight from the 1903 Jack Root vs Kid McCoy
fight that took place in Detroit, Michigan to the 1964
bout between champion Willie Pastrano vs Gregorio Peralta.

The Rocky Graziano vs Tony Janiro article was titled:
"Buddies - Until The Bell Rang". As a bonus to the 
article there was a current photo of Tony Janiro
visititing the BI office and he was quoted about his 
golden days of boxing when he said:
"It was a glorious pursuit of happiness."
Of course for Tony, much of that pursuit was
also outside of the ring being the playboy type
and spending money fast.  At the time of the 
story TONY JANIRO  was a bartender at the 
"Mansfield Lounge:" and was living in 
Manhatten's Washington Heights  section with
his wife and son.

RING RATINGS by BI
*In addition to WBA rating for each division, BI
published their own ratings with about 50 in each 
of the main divisions and 20 in the Junior Welterweight
and Junior Lightweight divisions.

For the October magazine they covered ratings to 
August 1, 1964.  Some of those not in the top ten
at the time but were interesting or had interesting
boxing stories:

Heavyweights:
Brian London,Joe Erskine, Thad Spencer, Johnny Prescott,
Charley Powell, Oscar Bonavena and Hubert Hilton.

Light Heavy:
Henry Hank, Chic Calderwood, Roger Rouse, Freddy Mack.

Middleweight:
Wilbert McLure, Ted Wright, Gomeo Brennan, Art Hernandez, 
Rocky Rivero, Jimmy Ellis, Holley Mims, and Blair Richardson.

Welterweight:
Ralph Dupas, Jorge Fernandez, Vince Shomo, Manuel Gonzalez, 
Percy Manning, Joey Durelle, Bennie Briscoe, and Johnny Cooke.

Lightweight:
Olli Maki, Murice Cullen, Tyrone Gardiner, and Len Matthews.

Featherweight:
Frankie Taylor, Danny Valdez, Juan Ramirez,  and Jose Legra.

Bantamweight and Flyweight:
Piero Rollo, Johnny Caldwell, Alan Rudkin, Ollie Taylor,
Billy Brown, Bob Allotey, Hugo Escobar and Leo Zulueta.

Jr. Welter and Jr Lightweights
Battling Torres, Bobby Scanlon, Dick DiVeronica,
Joey Olguin, and  Hector Diaz. 

A SAMPLE in the top TEN (All weights)
*Doug Jones, Zora Folley, Eddie Machen, George Chuvalo,
Wayne Thornton, Eddie Cotton, Harold Johnson,
Joey Archer, Rubin Carter, George Benton, Laszlo Papp,
Jose Stable, Brian Curvis, Garland (Rip) Randall, 
Dave Charnley, Kenny Lane, Frankie Narvaez, 
Howard Winstone, Vincente Saldivar, Floyd Robertson,
Jesus Pimentel, Jose Medel, Dwight Hawkins, 
Efren Torres, Walter McGowan, Bunny Grant, 
Percey Hales, Luis Molina, Auburn Copeland and Raul Rojas.

THE CHAMPIONS:
Cassius Clay, Willie Pastrano, Joey Giardello, Sandro Mazzinghi,
Emile Griffith, Eddie Perkins, Carlos Ortiz, Flash Elorde, 
Sugar Ramos, Eder Jofre and Pone Kingpetch.