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,