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,
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